Construction and industrial sites are dangerous, and Florida is among the riskiest places in America.
For more than 30 years, Rossman Baumberger Reboso Spier & Connolly, P.A. has represented injured workers or the families of dead workers in nearly every conceivable kind of construction case, including some of South Florida's most significant accidents.
The firm has fought on behalf of workers who were injured or killed from collapsed scaffolding, unguarded floors, balconies, boxes and girders, electrocutions, vehicle accidents, nail gun mishaps and other cases. The firm represents a family of a worker killed in the recent Bal Harbour condominium construction accident, which buried three workers in quick-drying cement.
These accidents are avoidable results of negligence. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics:
- 422 were killed on the job in Florida in 2004, a 22.6 percent increase from the year before, second only to Texas. Nationally, workplace deaths were up just over 2 percent;
- Florida led all states in deaths from falls (75) and transportation equipment (198);
- Florida ranked a close second in exposure to harmful substances or environments (35), fires and explosions (12) and assaults (58);
- Florida ranked fourth in deaths from objects and equipment (44).
Although workplaces grow more dangerous, the Florida Legislature restricted workers' compensation and many negligence suits in 2003
While this has curtailed workers' comp claims, legal remedies still remain available in many catastrophic cases.
Rossman Baumberger Reboso Spier & Connolly, P.A. values its collaborative relationship with workers' compensation lawyers and other co-counsel, investigates cases thoroughly, and fights to protect safety in the workplace and hold wrongdoers accountable