Louisiana lawyers are instrumental in damage recovery after offshore worker injury.
Louisiana – January 27, 2021
Offshore workers are remote from immediate emergency medical care, increasing the odds of severe injury, or accidental death. A legal professional will be able to assist accident victims and their families through navigation of a fair claim for personal injury harms.
Oil industry and rig dangers.
Working on an offshore rig is a dangerous job, but if proper safety precautions are addressed, it is not as risky of a work place as imagined, even if the minimum requirements of Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) specific to that occupation are met. Data from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health claims that a person working in the oil or gas industry is more likely to die on the job than any other American worker. If there are deviations from standard requirements, the outcomes can be disastrous for workers, and attorneys may need to prove that negligence was the cause for work site accidents at oil rigs including:
- gas pipeline explosions,
- industrial vehicle accidents,
- silica exposure,
- other chemical exposures, and
- collapsing rigs.
A Louisiana toxic exposure injury attorney can be instrumental when a person’s actions, or omission to act, violate workplace standards, where the law requires the violating person to compensate the injured parties.
Work accidents.
Oil industry workers are exposed to many dangers utilizing the heavy machinery, working with large compression valves, toxic chemicals, and electrical components related to big rigging. Employers and site managers need to make sure work area safety standards are maintained. Supervisors and maintenance managers owe employees the duty of patrolling work areas regularly to make sure there are no deviations from safety standards, and to check for naturally-occurring dangers related to weather changes, or aging equipment. Workers’ compensation attorneys can help when there is a deviation from work safety standards that may cause accidents related to:
- Electrocution – resulting from defective equipment, lack of communication, electrical components that are frayed or weather-worn, and powerlines.
- Gas Explosion Blast – Violent explosions can harm employees in a large area of a facility and injure persons who are even at distance from the initial blast site.
- Falls – Incidents including falling from heights such as an offshore outboard, being hit by falling objects when things fall, and fire and explosion blasts violently propelling workers to falls.
- Toxic Chemical Exposure – Some oil field injuries are not always detected right away. Toxic chemical exposure can take weeks to months and sometimes even years before it becomes apparent. Victims can suffer breathing problems, rashes, burns, develop cancer, or die. Lawyers who specialize in chemical exposure cases can advise individuals suffering any of these maladies.
Seek legal counsel.
Oil rig accidents are generally catastrophic events that can cause severe and lasting detrimental loss through injury to workers including illness, broken bones, burns, brain damage and wrongful death. An experienced attorney at the Stag Liuzza Law Firm may be able to guide victims, and their families’ actions toward accident remedy.
STAG LIUZZA, LLC
One Canal Place
365 Canal Street
Suite 2850
New Orleans, LA 70130
Ph: 504-593-9600
Fax: 504-593-9601
Sources.
https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/data/default.html
https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/fog/default.html
https://legis.la.gov/legis/Law.aspx?d=110567
