Ryan LLP Injury Blog

Given that there are multiple risks existing in a construction site, sustaining injuries or illness would be possible and it is evident as the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) reported that one in ten construction site workers are injured every year and in related to this there are around 150,000 injuries sustained by workers from consturction site accidents yearly according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).

In this blog, we will stipulate few common types of accidents occurring inside a construction site to watch out for and will give out legal advice on the latter specifically, how an injury lawyer could help victims of construction site accidents.

There are many injuries that could be sustained in a construction place given that there are more than seven million people who were employed to the sector of construction in U.S. just last year, which is in fact there was a slight decrease observed few months back then. There are dozens of factors that could contribute in an event of accident inside a workplace, especially construction sites where there are many hazards present such as tools and even its settings itself could be a factor of sustenance of injury.

In May 2013, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) released a policy on automated vehicles wherein they have setted levels to define automation levels 0 up to 4. Automation levels increases from non-automated up to a fully automated vehicle at level 4.

In this blog, we are going to discuss these levels and what does a vehicle charaterized as according to its automation level for people to understand it and utilize this small knowledge to their injury claims involving automated vehicles.

In 2015, Tesla released their first self-driving car model and this has caused people an access to autonomous vehicles and most of them are americans which producer of Tesla CEO Elon Musk is an american leading to an early release of these models to be in U.S. A national study conducted by

Americans are largely in favor of having access to more autonomous vehicles. A national study by American Automobile Association (AAA) found out that 60% of the public wanted autonomous driving feature on their next vehicles and it is slowly becoming reality as more than 1,400 self-driving cars are on the streets of U.S. in the recent date but even in these numbers 54% of the survey respondents said that they feel less secured about the thought of self-driving cars on the road even with the recent updates on its safety features and the system itself.

According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), almost 50% of interesction accidents occur because a driver either unintentionally disobeys a traffic signal, misunderstoods other driver’s signal, and/or deliberately try to beat the red light as they are in a rush. An additional 18% of accidents occur because drivers deliberately drive over yellow light on intersections and 36% of intersection accidents were caused by a driver who drive over a red light.

Among all car accidents, one of the most incovenient and has the most damage dealt are highway crashes and intersection accidents which involves multiple vehicles. Common causes of intersection car crashes are disobeying traffic signal and miscommunication of vehicles’ signals which result to failure of yielding the right of way. Running over a red light due to rush and hoping to get through the intersection on a yellow light and unintentional misunderstanding traffic signals are also root of causing a intersection car crash.

When involved in a car accident, there are countless possibilities on how victims could sustain their injuries. Range of injuries include cuts, broken bones, bruises, burns, possibility of amputation, and even head and neck injuries which could lead to either brain damage or spinal cord issues.

In this blog, we are going to talk about the array of possiblities what forms of brain damage a victim in a car accident could sustain as in the field of medicine, brain injuries are deemed to have the highest fatality recorded in terms of damage sustained in a car accident, one of the most life-changing injury that one could have from one event and we are about to shed light on why drivers should take premeasures when driving due to taking these adversities.

One cause of the many causes of car accidents are external factors which could affect the severity and outcome of a car accident, they are identified as either mechanical errors or the uncontrollable environmental risks or factors.

In general, environmental factors in car accidents refer to the entities contributing causes to crashes which are not charged or out of human control. Despite that, there are few types of environmental factors that are responsible for or partly makes up the whole car accident. Though, these specific crashes caused by these factors are preventable through prevention and countermeasures some tend to be negligent about it.