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Electrical injuries are among the most violent and unpredictable accidents a worker can suffer. A single shock can cause deep burns, cardiac arrest, nerve damage, or a fall from height. If you were shocked or electrocuted on the job in Bucks County, Pennsylvania law gives you the right to Bucks County workers’ compensation benefits, and in many cases a separate claim against a negligent third party. For over 34 years, Lerner, Steinberg & Associates has fought for injured workers across the county and helped them recover the medical care and lost wages they are owed.
Pennsylvania workers’ compensation covers almost every worker shocked or electrocuted on the job, no matter who caused the accident. If contact with a live wire, a faulty tool, an energized panel, or an arc flash injured you at work, your employer’s insurance must pay for your medical treatment and replace part of your lost wages while you recover.
Benefits for electrical injuries include all reasonable and necessary medical care, wage loss benefits equal to about two-thirds of your average weekly wage, specific loss benefits for permanent scarring or the loss of use of a body part, and death benefits for the families of workers killed in fatal accidents. Electrical injuries are dangerous precisely because the worst damage is often internal and invisible, so full medical evaluation and documentation are critical to both your recovery and your claim.
Electrical hazards follow the trade. Across Bucks County, electricians and utility line workers face shock and arc-flash risks every day working on service panels, transformers, and overhead lines. Construction crews contact overhead and buried power lines, temporary site wiring, and ungrounded tools on job sites in Doylestown, Newtown, Warrington, and the county’s growing developments. The manufacturing plants and warehouses along the Route 1 and I-95 corridors in Bristol, Bensalem, and Fairless Hills expose machine operators and maintenance workers to industrial control panels, high-voltage equipment, and energized machinery.
A serious electrical injury often means emergency treatment at a regional burn center, cardiac monitoring for heart-rhythm damage, and a long course of care for nerve and tissue injuries. Because a shock can also throw a worker or cause a fall from a ladder or scaffold, the injuries are frequently severe and multi-system. Acting quickly after the injury protects both your health and your right to benefits.
Electrical injuries take many forms, and each one raises its own medical and legal questions. We handle workplace electrocution claims of every kind, including the following.
An explosive release of energy that causes severe burns, blast trauma, hearing loss, and eye injuries in an instant.
Entry and exit wounds and deep internal tissue burns that are often far more serious than they first appear.
Current crossing the chest can stop the heart or trigger dangerous rhythm problems, sometimes hours later.
Shocks damage nerves and the brain, causing chronic pain, numbness, weakness, and memory or mood changes.
A shock can throw a worker or cause a fall from a ladder, scaffold, or pole, adding fractures and head trauma.
When a worker is killed by electrocution, surviving family members may qualify for death benefits.
Workers’ compensation does not pay for pain and suffering. Many electrocutions, though, are caused by someone other than your employer, such as the maker of a defective tool or panel, a general contractor who failed to de-energize a site, a property owner, or a utility company that failed to mark or guard its lines. When a third party’s carelessness played a role in your injury, you can bring a separate personal injury claim against that party on top of your workers’ comp claim.
This two-track approach is one of the most valuable and overlooked rights an injured worker has. Our attorneys review every electrocution case for third-party liability so that no source of compensation is missed.
Electrocution is one of the “Fatal Four” causes of construction deaths, and OSHA sets strict electrical-safety rules for a reason. When an injury involves a broken safety rule, such as a failed lockout/tagout procedure, missing ground-fault (GFCI) protection, inadequate arc-flash protective gear, or unsafe work near energized lines, that violation becomes strong evidence of negligence. It can support both your workers’ comp case and any third-party claim. Our attorneys check OSHA compliance on every electrocution case and use violations to build the strongest claim possible.
Some employers label workers as independent contractors to avoid paying for workers’ compensation. In Pennsylvania, that label does not automatically remove your right to benefits. The law looks at how the work was actually controlled and performed. Our attorneys challenge improper classifications that try to deny injured workers the coverage they have earned.
Pennsylvania sets firm deadlines, and missing even one can end your right to compensation. Three separate clocks matter in every electrical-injury case.
Because these deadlines move quickly, the safest step is to speak with a lawyer soon after your injury. You can review the state’s official program through the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry, then reach out to our office for guidance.
For more than three decades, Mike Lerner and Ben Steinberg have handled workers’ compensation and injury cases for people across Bucks County, and they work on every electrocution case personally. You deal directly with an attorney, never a case file. They understand how serious and delayed electrical injuries can be, and they push for the full medical care and wage loss benefits Pennsylvania law allows.
We pursue every avenue of recovery, including workers’ comp, third-party claims, and product liability, and we work on a contingency basis, so you owe no fee unless we win. If you were shocked or electrocuted at work anywhere in Bucks County, contact our office for a free consultation and an honest review of your claim.
