Alabama Workers Compensation Claims and Electrical Workers

Alabama Workers Compensation Claims and Electrical Workers

Job Injury Electrical Workers: If you are an electrician or work in the electrical field (for companies such as Marathon Electrical, Birmingham Electrical Contractors, P.E.S. Electrical Contractors, or Alabama Power), chances are you will suffer a job injury sometime during your career.  Electrical work is not just dangerous because you have to work with and around electricity, but you also have to perform physically strenuous work in all types of weather.

For the many of the workers we have represented, immediately following their job accident it was obvious that the electrical worker had suffered a serious injury, but for others whose injury initially seemed minor, the injured worker did not file an accident report with his employer as burns, pulled muscles or sprains are part of the job, and the injured worker does not want to report every pulled muscle and get a reputation as someone who can’t deal with a little pain.  Only after a day or two (or weeks) of trying to deal with a pain that simply will not go away do they report their job injury.  At this point many construction workers are informed by their employer that they had waited too long to report/give notice of a job injury and therefore they are not entitled to any workers’ compensation benefits.  This is rarely true.

While it is true that according to Ala.Code §25-5-78, an injured workers is supposed to provide written notice of a workplace injury within 5 days of the on-the-job injury, this section goes on to state that, in Alabama, a worker has up to 90 days in which to inform his employer about a job injury, and an oral report is just as valid a notice means as a detailed written report.  Company policy cannot override law, so if your employer states that “…company policy mandates that all workers’ compensation injuries be reported within 2 days of the occurrence of said injury and since you did not do so you are not eligible for workers’ compensation benefits ” (which many injured workers have called to tell us over the years)-they are misinformed about Alabama’s Workers’ Compensation laws and they are still responsible for your medical care and compensation.

If you live in Alabama, you are an electrical worker and you have suffered a job injury while working and you have questions about your rights under the Alabama Workers’ Compensation laws, don’t hesitate to contact Powell and Denny and speak with one of the experienced workers compensation lawyers and schedule a free consultation.

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+ Powell and Denny have successfully represented injured workers from Birmingham, Huntsville, Florence, Muscle Shoals, Tuscumbia, Athens, Decatur, Town Creek Ardmore, Hartselle, Madison, Toney, Scottsboro, Ft. Payne, New Hope, Guntersville, Albertville, Boaz, Ashville, Anniston, Gadsden, Cullman, Jasper, Gardendale, Morris, Kimberly, Centerpoint, Leeds, Tarrant City, Fairfield, Hueytown, Bessemer, Adger, Tuscaloosa, Cordova, Alabaster, Pelham, Harpersville, Opelika, Phenix City, Montgomery, Clanton, Calera, Enterprise, Monroeville, Mobile, Evergreen, Alabaster, Pelham, Trussville and towns and cities in between.

 

Alabama Workers Compensation Claims and Electrical Workers