Washington Construction Injury Attorney
Q. How may construction accidents occur in the United States each year?
A. In 2000, approximately 16 workers were injured every day. This is in spite of OSHA and WISHA requirements. Close to 6 of these workers will die because of their injury.
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Q. Which construction site activities pose the greatest threat?
A. Many construction accidents involve electrocution. Welding activities are another common cause of accidents. Trenching is another of the highest risk activities. Recently crane injuries and fatalities have been noted.
Q. If I am injured on the construction site, can I get compensation?
A. If you are injured on the construction site, you must first file a claim with Labor and Industry. You should contact a construction accident attorney to make sure that you aren’t entitled to more than L&I.
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Man Killed in WA Construction Accident
BANGOR — A worker died in an accident Friday afternoon at Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor when was run over by a large vehicle at a construction site.
The man worked for Intermech, a subcontractor for Kiewit Bridge and Marine Construction, according to a press release from Naval Base Kitsap.
More information will be added to this story when it becomes available.
My condolences to the family of this worker, RIP.
If you have been injured in a Washington State Construction accident we welcome you to contact our Renton, WA construction injury lawyers for a free consultation.
Renton Taxi Driver Charged in Crash
A Renton taxi driver has been jailed on vehicular homicide charges stemming from a deadly crash near Sea-Tac Airport.
Jailed Thursday following the filing of charges, Stita Taxi driver stands accused of precipitating a deadly crash by cutting across Interstate 5 in a Nov. 18 attempt to reach a Sea-Tac Airport exit.
According to charging documents, the suspect was traveling south on I-5 taking a fare to the airport when he realized his taxicab collided with a Toyota Land Cruiser in a lane to the cab’s right.
The collision caused the SUV to roll, landing on its roof. An oncoming car struck the upended Land Cruiser on the driver’s side door, killing 43-year-old driver David Doerr.
Investigators contend the suspect tried to cut across the lane to reach an exit for state Route 518, which provides access to the airport. the suspect denied doing so, though his passengers said the suspect drove the car over a curb after missing the exit and slammed into the Land Cruiser.
In court documents, State Patrol investigators noted “obvious damage on the taxi from slamming into the curb as well as striking Mr. Doerr’s car.”
The suspect, 36, has been charged with vehicular homicide. He has been jailed on $100,000 bail.
Although the suspect is accused of driving the vehicle in an unsafe manner, investigators found no evidence of alcohol or drug involvement in the crash.
If you have been injured in a Renton Car accident we can help you. The Renton, WA car accident attorneys at Kornfeld Law have extensive experience helping crash victims recover compensation.
Toyota to turn over data from fatal Bellingham crash
The parents of a man killed when his Toyota Tundra pickup truck crashed into a tree near Bellingham three years ago may finally get the answers they’ve been seeking since their son’s death.
Sen. Maria Cantwell announced Tuesday she has secured a commitment from Toyota executives to turn over ‘black box’ data that could provide answers to the cause of Chris Eves’ crash, which was originally attributed to driver error.
Toyota has resisted family requests for the data, but with recent revelations about problems with some Toyota vehicles experiencing unintended acceleration, the company has now agreed to release the information.
Eves, 29, was driving a three-month-old Tundra on Oct. 26, 2007 when the vehicle veered and crashed head-on into a tree on a rural road north of Bellingham.
The truck never swerved. There are no skid marks and no clear evidence as to why he hit the tree. There’s only a final ominous note in the police file: “It remains unknown why the collision occurred.”
As the Eves kept pushing for answers, the Washington State Patrol said fatigue and Chris’ blood alcohol level, which was at the legal limit of .08, were contributing factors to him falling asleep at the wheel.
But as part of our Problem Solver Investigation, KOMO News obtained crash photos showing extensive front-end damage. And nearly every accident report we examined indicates this crash was at a very high rate of speed.
And that left Chris Eves’ parents wondering: How does any of that data add up to falling asleep at the wheel?
“I don’t think Chris would have hit that stump so hard if he had been asleep,” Lori Eves said during our original investigation. “I think his foot would have went off the pedal.”
Two years later, the data kept in the vehicle’s event data recorder (EDR) is the only way to know how fast Chris Eves was going. According to Toyota’s Web site, the EDR could have recorded speed, pressure on the gas pedal and if he’d tried to brake.
“I know that the speed of my son’s vehicle is on there,” said Chris Eves’ father, Ron Eves said in February.
But car owners need a Toyota tool and software to download the information from the EDR. And for more than two years, Toyota, citing corporate policy, had refused to help.
Subsequently, the Eves learned that their son’s 2007 Toyota Tundra was among the millions of vehicles on Toyota’s October 2009 and January 2010 recall lists for problems with the driver-side floor mat and accelerator pedal, either of which could cause unwanted acceleration.
And on Tuesday, under pressure from the U.S. government and a specific request by Sen. Cantwell for Eves’ data, Toyota relented.
“We will be glad to do so,” said Yoshimi Inaba, President and Chief Executive Officer of Toyota Motor North America, Inc. “This is our desire also to find out what has happened. And very, very sorry about what has happened to this family.”
In addition to Eves’ case, Inaba said the automaker will start making available to U.S. safety regulators all EDRs on Toyotas involved in sudden acceleration episodes.
The company will be delivering three data readers to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on Wednesday and hoped to make the data more accessible to other systems by the middle of 2011.
Rob Kornfeld is a Renton, Washington State personal injury attorney.
Traffic stop outside Ashland results in large cocaine bust
An early morning traffic stop on Friday led Oregon State Police troopers to 13 pounds of cocaine hidden in a vehicle.
At 4:40 a.m. Friday, a trooper stopped a 2003 Chevrolet Tahoe displaying Washington license plates for speeding on Interstate 5 near Milepost 13, just south of Ashland.
During the stop, troopers and a drug-sniffing dog searched the car and found 6 kilograms of cocaine (approximately 13.2 pounds) wrapped in 1-kilo bundles hidden in the car.
The estimated wholesale value of the cocaine is about $150,000, but it would be much higher after the drug was cut with other substances and repackaged on the street, OSP Lt. Kelly Collins said.
“This cocaine could sell for close to half a million dollars after it reaches the street dealers,” Collins said.
Arrested were A male, 24, of Renton, Wash., and A Male, 28, of Seattle, on charges of delivery of cocaine and possession of cocaine.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have placed a federal hold on the suspects on the suspicion they are in the country illegally. They were lodged in the Jackson County Jail without bail.
“This was a large drug bust for us,” Collins said. “We’d like to have more of these.”
Collins said that OSP’s recent staff increases have bolstered the agency’s ranks enough to allow troopers to focus on drug interdiction rather than just responding from one traffic accident to another.
“It’s nice to have the back-up you need to make these large drug stops,” Collins said. “Before, we rarely had time to really look for drugs on the interstate.”
Collins, a 25-year veteran with OSP, said the agency has seized more hard drugs such as cocaine over the past two years simply because there are now more troopers on the road.
“I don’t think there’s necessarily more drugs on the interstate, it’s just that we now have the manpower to do something about it,” Collins said. “There’s always been a lot of drugs coming up and down Interstate 5.”
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