New Jersey Transportation and Materials Handling Injury Lawyer

Fatal Materials Handling Accidental Death Claims Lawyer

Families of workers who are killed on the job here in New Jersey have the unenviable distinction of receiving death benefits through employer-paid workers’ compensation insurance. At New Jersey Workers Compensation Lawyer of JFM Law, our law firm is dedicated to assisting widows, widowers, dependent children, and other qualifying survivors to collect on death claims following a heartbreaking fatal transportation and materials handling accident at work.

Increased financial burden is often one of the serious consequences of an untimely death of a family breadwinner. Not only do funeral, mortuary, and burial costs impact the survivors following the individual’s demise, but unpaid medical bills that may have accumulated before the victim died can come due at exactly the wrong time for a bereaved spouse and young children.

A number of fatal on-the-job accidents befall those people who work in materials transport and handling jobs. Working around bulky, heavy containers and large materials handling equipment can put these employees in jeopardy on a daily basis. Our New Jersey workers’ compensation specialist, Daniel Santarsiero, Esq., has a great deal of experience with death benefit claims cases throughout the Garden State.

Workers’ Compensation Claims Attorneys

Warehouse jobs, transportation and Materials handling involve a range of skills and activities, such as lifting large containers, hoisting building materials, operating fork trucks loaded with heavy and oversized items, plus carrying materials by hand and stacking pallets with chemical drums, auto parts, retail merchandise and other goods.

Unfortunately, mishandling or improper procedures can sometimes result in a serious or fatal accident. Training and education, as well as observing general safety procedures can go a long way toward reducing the opportunity for workplace deaths. Even so, if a company or its management cuts corners, the chances of fatal on-the-job injuries can rise precipitously.

In terms of workplace hazards for materials handling workers, weight and bulkiness of cargo and other stored items are significant contributing factors to injury and death in the workplace. While simple injuries are the predominant result of accidents at warehouses and other storage facilities, deaths also occur from large fallen objects, as well as fatal crush accidents involving large materials handling machinery.

At New Jersey Workers Compensation Lawyer of The Law Offices of Jonathan F. Marshall, our experienced workers’ compensation attorneys are ready to assist the families of victims killed while working at warehouse jobs and in materials handling positions. Even when safety rules and regulations are followed, such as those provided by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), simple mistakes can lead to deadly workplace incidents.