New Jersey Furniture Movers & Cartage Company Employees Injury Lawyer

Fatal On-the-Job Accidents Suffered By Moving Company Employees

For those individuals who have been injured while working as furniture movers and cartage company employees, the New Jersey Workers’ Compensation Act provides for monetary compensation to cover emergency room visits, ongoing medical care, and even lost wages to cover living expenses while the worker is recovering. Of course, being hurt on the job is not an uncommon occurrence, but it is the less frequent fatal injury accidents that can deal a devastating blow to the family of a worker killed on the job.

The dangerous nature of the cartage and furniture moving business is often exhibited in the slip-and-fall and crush injuries that affect moving van drivers and furniture moving personnel. There are numerous common hazards, but also many that most people rarely experience. Heavy items, such as large couches, sofas, heavy tables, and large appliances can easily get out of hand (especially on staircases and balconies) where a worker could fall and be critically, if not fatally, injured. Piano movers are especially at risk for injury or death.

While crush injuries can be a major concern for moving company employees, trip-and-fall accidents are a frequent source of serious head injuries with sometimes-fatal consequences. Deaths caused by fall-related brain hemorrhage or other closed-head or traumatic brain injury can turn an otherwise ordinary day at work into a nightmare for the victim’s wife and children. Falling from the balcony of a multi-story home or down a flight of stairs in a high-rise apartment building is also a risk that some moving company personnel must face on a daily or weekly basis.

Death Claims After Work-Related Moving Van Accidents

Sadly, when a tragic fatal on-the-job accident happens to a mover or cartage company employee, the effect on that individual’s dependents can be a real shock. Sometimes, the result of an accident will leave a victim critically injured in the hospital for day or weeks prior to his or her unfortunate demise. Our workers’ compensation specialist, Daniel Santarsiero, Esq., is well versed in the field of death benefit claims.

If your loved one has been killed while working for a moving company or cartage business, it is important that you file for workers’ comp death benefits as soon as practical. Our attorneys at New Jersey Workers Compensation Lawyer of JFM Law understand that on-the-job accidents cause many thousands of fatalities each year across the United States. Here in New Jersey, our professional workers’ compensation experts know how devastating any work-related death can be for a victim’s loved ones.

On the whole, workers’ compensation insurance (also referred to as workers’ comp) provides monetary compensation following the injury or death of an individual while working at his or her job in New Jersey. However, death benefits can often fall far short of the real needs of a victim’s family. This can be especially true if the victim was the sole breadwinner for his spouse and dependent children.

Our experienced moving and cartage death benefit lawyers can help the worker’s surviving family members by determining whether or not a third-party wrongful death lawsuit is warranted. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has established standards to address the various safety issues facing New Jersey workers, day laborers, and blue-collar employees, all of whom have the greatest exposure to life-threatening hazards while on the job.