Dangerous Machinery Injuries
Product Liability Claims for Workplace Machine Accidents
If you suffered serious injury on the job from a defective or poorly designed machine, you may have grounds for a personal injury lawsuit against the manufacturer, above and beyond the limited benefits of workers' compensation.
Pierce, Herns, Sloan & McLeod LLC represents workers in Charleston, Berkeley and Dorchester counties, and throughout South Carolina who were maimed or killed by dangerous machinery. Contact our Charleston product liability attorneys at 843-722-7733 to discuss your case in a free initial consultation.
Workplace Machinery Defects
Normally, you cannot sue for work-related injuries if your employer or co-workers were negligent. However, manufacturers, distributors and servicers of workplace machines are liable for damages for bad engineering, failure of safety mechanisms or failure to warn of foreseeable dangers from reasonable use. Trial lawyer David Yarborough and his team have represented clients of industrial machinery accidents injured in the following ways:
- Severed limbs or fingers
- Crush injuries
- Severe burns from fires and explosions
- Head trauma/brain damage
- Spinal injuries
- Eye injury
- Wrongful death
We use engineering and manufacturing experts to show that machines were inherently unsafe, lacked proper safety guards and warnings, continued to operate when safety mechanisms were disabled, or failed to shut off when emergency switches were pressed. We have settled cases involving presses, saws and cutters, conveyor belts, mixing tanks and other dangerous machinery, as well as accidents involving defects in heavy equipment or worksite vehicles.
Machinery accidents are often permanently disabling. Pierce, Herns, Sloan & McLeod pursues the full compensation that injured workers need to pay for their ongoing medical care and replace lost future earnings. Contact our Charleston office for a free case evaluation and aggressive representation.
