Workers Represented in New Jersey

Workplace Injury Lawyers Representing Petitioners Throughout New Jersey

In the central New Jersey area, the healthcare industry is one of the biggest suppliers of jobs. Hospitals and medical practices employ many workers for a wide range of services that one does not always think about. For instance, in the hospital setting, there are nurses, food supply workers, maintenance people, and security guards, to name a few. The medical profession is very physically demanding. Workers are often required to be on their feet for extended periods of time, whether it’s an 8-hour or 12-hour shift. These employees are often required to assist patients 24 hours a day, requiring them to lift the patients, walk with the patients, assist them to get showers, or exercise injured body parts. The janitorial staff in the medical facilities will be required to work with chemicals and also be required to be responsible for physically demanding tasks such as cleaning and/or repairing certain parts of the physical structure of the medical facilities. As a result, the health care profession is one particular area that has a big impact on workers’ compensation cases in central New Jersey.

Teacher’s Workers’ Compensation

Teachers are another group of frequently injured workers that one wouldn’t normally think about. Teachers in New Jersey, and especially in the central Jersey area, are a very large segment of the work population. While it’s not necessarily a physically demanding job, there are such a great number of school employees that even if an accident only occurs a small percentage of the time during the workday, that small percentage multiplied by a very large amount of workers will put teachers high up in the category of frequently injured workers.

Workers’ Compensation for Inherently Dangerous Work

Of course, there are also the normal trades that one would think of as being physically demanding and dangerous. Roofers, siders, concrete workers, iron workers, electricians, plumbers, glazers, and workers of all construction and construction-related trades often have very substantial injuries that are not particularly surprising to see. It is one thing to be injured in an office setting. It is an entirely different thing to be injured when you’re 30 feet above the ground working on a roof.

Roofers, Tree Trimmers, Tree Surgeons, and Working at Heights or Depths

Any work class that requires working at heights or at depths raises the likelihood of a serious debilitating long-lasting injury. Roofers, tree surgeons and tree trimmers all work in very hazardous conditions. Workers who are excavators or ditch diggers have a very dangerous job that many would not realize, but the risk of injury is great because of the risk of cave ins. It is very dangerous to be digging a 6, 8 or 10-foot trench when other construction is going on in the same general area vibrating and shaking the earth. Many times this will result in what is called a cave in, trapping these laborers doing the grunt work in the trench or the ditch.