Construction sites can be dangerous. However, if proper planning and safety precautions are taken, they should not expose workers to unreasonable risks of danger. Unfortunately, the necessary planning and implementation of precautions often do not occur. Injuries on these sites are often severe, or result in death. In handling construction-site personal injury cases, it is necessary to conduct very thorough discovery. These cases involve competing issues of law and fact. In order to properly prepare a construction case, it is important to have a basic understanding of these issues.
On the one hand, the law mandates that a general contractor, or the prime contractor, has a non-delegable duty to provide reasonable job-site safety supervision. In order for the plaintiff to prevail, it must be shown that there was a failure to establish or enforce job-site safety requirements.
