Construction site incidents sometimes result in burns for workers or passersby. Burns can range from minor burns that require short-term medical treatment to devastating burns that become life-changing injuries. Those sustaining burn injuries at construction sites can also find themselves unable to work, with long-term medical bills and with anguish that emotionally and financially strains entire families. You can recover monies as a result of such burns with the help of a qualified Virginia, Maryland and Washington DC burn lawyer.
Types of Construction Site Burns
- Hot water burns: These burns occur when construction site workers come in contact with water at a high temperature. Such burns can result in redness, pain or damage to deep layers of skin.
- Steaming burns: These burns occur when construction site workers come in contact with vaporized water. In order for steam to form, water must reach a temperature greater than 100-degrees Celsius. Hot steam can injure just about any body part from eyes and faces to skin.
- Third-degree burns: These burns occur when skin is charred and scarred as a result of coming in contact with incredibly hot substances or fire. Victims of third-degree burns are typically in immense pain.
What to Do If You Are Burned
If you are burn as a result of a construction site incident, you should immediately seek medical treatment. If you are unable to treat yourself, you should notify other workers or staff that you have been injured and that you need immediate care. Your health and safety is of the utmost importance in burn incidents.
Once your treatment is complete, you should begin the process of determining what happened at the construction site that caused the burn. You should take photographs or videos of the scene, take the names and phone numbers of any witnesses to the incident or of those who assisted with your burn and write down the names of the equipment that you were using or nearby when the incident happened. You should then contact an experienced Washington DC, Maryland and Virginia burn accident lawyer to help you determine if you can recover any money from your financial losses.
Seeking Compensation
When you contact a qualified burn attorney, you should accumulate any information you have about your medical bills and other damages as a result of the burn. An experienced attorney at Koonz, McKenney, Johnson, DePaolis & Lightfoot, L.L.P., can help you recover your damages and make your family whole once again. |
