IN Construction Accident Lawyer

Your Indiana Construction Accident Lawyer in Indianapolis was pleased  to see President Obama has nominated Dr. David Michaels to head the Occupational and Safety Health Administration. (OSHA).  Indiana has its own department, IOSHA, but the safety rules and regulations come from OSHA. 

Hopefully, OSHA will address some of the key issues facing Indiana Construction workers, including implementing a construction project rule that whenever a construction worker is working in excess of 6 feet that Fall Protection be provided and required. Currently, there is a hodge podge of rules and regulations. For example, scaffold accidents could be prevented by lowering the railing requirement from 10 feet to 6.  Iron worker accidents could be reduced by using a 6 foot rule for tying off. Currently it is task  specific, connecting is 15 feet, while decking is in excess of 30 feet.  The regulations suffer from "committee disease", the compromises end up missing the main point, preventing construction accidents!

Here is a link to an article on the nomination.   We wish Dr Michaels well.

Here is a video of fall protection gone  wrong especially around power lines!



  



Fall  protection should be job one for the new OSHA head!

If you or a family member have been injured in an Indiana Construction accident, please consider us your Construction Accident Law Firm in Indiana. We represent worjers injured in falls, electrical accidents, scaffold accidents, trench collapses and road construction accidents throughout Indiana, including Indianapolis, Fort Wayne, Terre Haute, South Bend and Evansville. Please contact us at the FREE CASE EVALUATION at the right of the page, or feel free to email me or call. BE SAFE!

John