North Carolina Injury Attorney Provides Important News to Injured Victims

North Carolina Construction Worker Trapped by Boulder

Doing excavation work on the 7100 block of Robinson Church Road in East Charlotte, N.C., a construction worker was injured and trapped in his Bobcat bulldozer by a boulder sliding down the slope.

Emergency crews from the Charlotte Fire Department were quickly on the site, and it took two dozen firefighters 36 minutes to free the worker from under the bulldozer. The man was transported to CMC University hospital where he was diagnosed with lower body injuries.

In recent blog posts and articles we have repeatedly stressed the importance of implementing safety procedures on construction sites. In North Carolina, workers in the construction industry suffer the second highest incidence of accidental injuries, right behind the transportation industry.

Far too often, construction workers are left to their own devices and initiatives, while employers and contractors hope for the best. Working in trenches and excavations, on scaffolds, roofs and ladders, in confined spaces and on utility lines, construction workers are at a far greater risk of severe work injuries than any worker in an industrial production plant where safety procedures are usually better implemented and controlled.

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