Equipment Operating Negligence & Injuries

As offshore operations have become increasingly complex, particularly in the oil and gas industry, adequate training is essential to ensuring that maritime workers understand how to safely use equipment.

克里斯特律师事务所，P.C.熟悉可能由于设备经营疏忽而产生的潜在海上伤害。如果您在事故中受伤，请立即联系它们281-283-8500to find out how they can help you.

Dangers of Equipment Operating Negligence

Human error is one of the biggest challenges in ensuring the health and safety of maritime workers. While mistakes are bound to occur, manyequipment-related injuriesare the result of negligence. Unfortunately, negligence continues to be a leading factor in休斯顿maritime accidents.

Equipment operating negligence can include the following:

• Fatigue due to long working hours or lack of sleep
• Lack of attention
• 缺乏经验与设备
• Inadequate training
• 工人之间的沟通不佳
• 工人受损
• 冒险或糟糕的决策
• LAX遵守安全法规

Negligent practices like inadequate employee training, failure to take proper safety measures, and having insufficient crew members assigned to work with a piece of equipment, can lead to devastating consequences for maritime workers and their families. A failure to operate equipment safely can result in explosions, fires, electrocutions, mechanical failures, workers being struck or crushed by machinery, chemical exposures, and falls. Many of these accidents are preventable with the proper safety practices and precautions.

设备经营疏忽造成的常见伤害

海事行业雇主提供安全工作环境的义务，这意味着为海上工作人员提供适当的设备和培训。当海事行业雇主或公司雇主失败时，后果可能会为工人及其家属造成毁灭性。

Common injuries sustained in equipment operating negligence cases include:

• Mild, moderate, or severetraumatic brain injuries
• 粉碎或截肢四肢
• 背部或脊髓损伤
• 撕裂
• Severe burns
• 电刑
• 撕裂韧带
• Polytrauma (multiple bodily injuries)
• Broken bones

Maritime workers who have been injured on a marine vessel, drilling rig or platform, or at port, as a result of equipment operating negligence, may be able to recover compensation for your losses. The compensation you may recover will depend on the maritime laws that apply to your case, which is why it is critical that you speak with an experienced and knowledgeable Houston maritime injury attorney.

Federal and State Maritime Laws that May Affect You

海事案件很复杂，因为不同的海事法律可以适用于各种情况和班级的工人。以下联邦海上法律或教义可能会影响您的索赔：

• Merchant Marine Act of 1920 (more commonly known as the Jones Act)
• Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act
• 维护和治愈
• Unseaworthiness
• Longshore & Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act
• The Death on the High Seas Act

The克里斯特律师事务所的律师，P.C.have decades of experience handling maritime injury cases under these complicated maritime laws and can help explain you pursue a claim for compensation.

How The Krist Law Firm, P.C. Can Help With Your Operating Negligence Case

在Krist Law Compand，P.C.，我们的海事事故律师在休斯顿的海上事故中代表伤害的人有成功的记录，我们将争取获得伤害的最大可能赔偿。我们有资源和技能来代表您建立一个强大的案例，其中包括一个最佳医疗，工程，救生规划和国家的海运行业专家网络。让我们将我们的重大经验和知识为您工作，以便您可以专注于恢复。

To learn how we can help, contact us today at281-283-8500for a free consultation.