Construction Site Injury Lawyers in Boston, Massachusetts

Representing Injured Construction Workers and Their Families for Over 40 Years

Construction work plays a vital role in Massachusetts’ economy, but it remains one of the most dangerous occupations in the Commonwealth. With more than 168,000 construction workers statewide, job-site injuries continue to occur despite safety regulations, training requirements, and industry standards.

Construction site accidents often involve heavy equipment, elevated work areas, electrical hazards, and multiple contractors working simultaneously. When safety protocols break down, the consequences can be catastrophic — including permanent disability, loss of earning capacity, and long-term medical needs. These injuries place enormous financial and emotional strain on injured workers and their families.

If you were injured while working on a construction site, you may be entitled to workers’ compensation benefits. However, workers’ compensation alone rarely provides full and fair compensation for serious construction injuries. When a construction accident is caused by the negligence of someone other than your direct employer, you may also have the right to pursue a third-party construction site injury claim, which is often the most significant source of recovery available.

Injured on a Construction Site? Workers’ Compensation Is Often Only the Beginning

Workers’ compensation is designed to provide injured workers with prompt access to medical care and partial wage replacement. In Massachusetts, workers’ compensation benefits typically include:

• Payment for reasonable and necessary medical treatment
• Temporary or permanent disability benefits based on wage loss

What workers’ compensation does not provide is compensation for:

• Pain and suffering
• Full past and future wage loss
• Loss of future earning capacity
• Loss of quality of life or permanent impairment beyond statutory limits

For workers who suffer serious orthopedic injuries, spinal cord damage, traumatic brain injuries, or amputations, workers’ compensation benefits alone are often insufficient to meet long-term financial needs.

A Critical Advantage: CRC Handles Both Workers’ Compensation and Third-Party Construction Injury Claims

CRC is uniquely positioned to represent injured construction workers because we handle both workers’ compensation claims and third-party construction site injury lawsuits under one roof.

This integrated representation is a critical advantage.

Many law firms focus exclusively on either workers’ compensation or personal injury. When claims are split between different firms, injured workers often experience:

• Missed or delayed identification of third-party liability
• Poor coordination of medical, vocational, and wage evidence
• Strategic errors that reduce total recovery
• Conflicts over settlement timing and lien resolution

By handling both claims simultaneously, CRC is able to:

• Identify third-party liability early, before evidence disappears
• Coordinate medical and vocational evidence across both cases
• Develop a unified litigation strategy
• Strategically time settlements to maximize net recovery
• Aggressively negotiate and reduce workers’ compensation liens

This coordinated approach frequently results in substantially greater total compensation than when claims are handled separately.

What Is a Third-Party Construction Site Injury Claim?

A third-party construction site injury claim arises when someone other than your employer caused or contributed to your injuries.

Common sources of third-party liability include:

• General contractors responsible for job-site safety
• Subcontractors or trade contractors who created or failed to correct hazardous conditions
• Manufacturers or suppliers of defective tools, machinery, or safety equipment
• Property owners or developers who failed to address known dangers

Unlike workers’ compensation, third-party claims allow injured workers to seek full compensation for their losses, including:

• 100% of past and future lost wages
• Pain and suffering
• Loss of earning capacity
• Future medical expenses
• Permanent disability and impairment damages

Why Lien Strategy Matters

When an injured worker pursues a third-party personal injury claim while receiving workers’ compensation benefits, the workers’ compensation insurer often asserts a lien against any recovery. How that lien is handled can dramatically affect how much money the injured worker actually takes home.

An attorney who understands workers’ compensation lien and reimbursement laws can often reduce lien exposure, coordinate the timing and structure of settlements, and ensure that recoveries are allocated properly. Strategic lien management can mean the difference between a settlement that looks large on paper and one that truly maximizes the injured worker’s net recovery.

Because CRC handles both workers’ compensation and third-party claims, we address lien issues from the outset – not as an afterthought.

General Contractors Have a Non-Delegable Duty to Maintain Job-Site Safety

Under Massachusetts law, general contractors have a non-delegable duty to maintain a safe construction site. This means they cannot shift responsibility for safety failures to subcontractors or individual workers.

General contractors are legally required to:

• Identify and correct foreseeable hazards
• Comply with OSHA and Massachusetts safety regulations
• Coordinate subcontractor activities safely
• Enforce accepted construction industry safety practices

When general contractors fail to meet these obligations, they may be held legally responsible for injuries that result — even when the injured worker is employed by a subcontractor.

Common Construction Site Accidents and Injuries

Construction site accidents frequently involve:

• Falls from scaffolding, ladders, roofs, and elevated platforms
• Struck-by accidents involving falling objects or moving machinery
• Crane, forklift, and heavy equipment accidents
• Trench collapses and excavation failures
• Electrical shocks, arc-flash injuries, and electrocution
• Defective or improperly guarded tools

These accidents often result in serious injuries such as:

• Traumatic brain injuries
• Spinal cord injuries and paralysis
• Amputations and crush injuries
• Severe orthopedic injuries
• Permanent disability

Because these injuries often affect a worker’s ability to return to physically demanding employment, long-term financial planning and damage assessment are critical.

What to Do After a Construction Site Accident

If you are injured on a construction site, taking the right steps early can protect both your health and your legal rights:

1. Seek immediate medical attention
2. Report the injury to your employer as soon as possible
3. Preserve photographs, clothing, and equipment if available
4. Obtain contact information for witnesses
5. Avoid giving recorded statements to insurance companies
6. Contact an experienced construction site injury attorney promptly

Early legal involvement allows evidence to be preserved and liability to be evaluated before critical information is lost.

Why Immediate Legal Action After a Construction Accident Is Essential

After a construction site accident, insurance companies and defense attorneys begin investigating immediately, often within hours of the incident.

Critical evidence can disappear quickly, including:

• Dangerous job-site conditions
• Defective tools or machinery
• Surveillance footage or job-site video
• Witness recollections

Injured workers are rarely in a position to protect this evidence themselves. Prompt legal representation is essential to preserve proof, identify responsible parties, and build a strong case.

A Low-Volume, Hands-On Approach That Maximizes Results

CRC intentionally maintains a low-volume caseload so that every client receives direct, personal attention from an experienced attorney — not a case manager.

Our hands-on approach allows us to:

• Conduct thorough, early investigations
• Personally interview witnesses
• Preserve critical evidence before it is lost
• Retain respected construction safety, medical, vocational, and economic experts
• Prepare every case as if it will be tried before a jury

This level of preparation strengthens settlement negotiations and ensures we are fully prepared if trial becomes necessary.

Coordinating Settlements to Maximize Net Recovery

When workers’ compensation and third-party claims proceed simultaneously, how and when cases resolve matters.

By handling both claims, CRC is able to:

• Coordinate settlement timing
• Minimize workers’ compensation lien exposure
• Protect future benefits
• Maximize the amount our clients actually receive

This strategic coordination is rarely available when claims are handled by separate firms.

Decades of Experience Representing Injured Construction Workers

Our attorneys bring more than 55 years of combined experience representing injured construction workers and their families throughout Massachusetts.

We regularly handle:

• Workers’ compensation claims before the Department of Industrial Accidents
• Third-party construction injury lawsuits in Massachusetts Superior Courts

Our experience, integrated approach, and low-volume representation allow us to deliver results that many firms simply cannot.

Speak Directly With a Construction Site Injury Attorney

If you or a loved one has been injured on a construction site, you deserve representation that understands both sides of your recovery — workers’ compensation and third-party liability.

📞 Call 617-426-9797 to speak directly with one of our attorneys
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• Free, confidential consultations
• No legal fees unless we recover compensation
• Low-volume, high-attention representation
• Decades of experience protecting injured workers