If you were injured on a construction site in Beverly Hills, you may be entitled to more than workers’ compensation. When a general contractor, subcontractor, property owner, or equipment manufacturer contributed to your injury, California law allows you to file a third-party lawsuit for full damages, including pain and suffering that workers’ comp never pays.
The statute of limitations under Cal. Code Civ. Proc. § 335.1 gives you two years from the date of injury to file. Call The Injury Partners at (310) 220-0066 for a free 24/7 consultation. You pay nothing unless we win.
Workers’ Compensation vs. a Third-Party Lawsuit After a Construction Accident
In California, workers’ compensation is generally the exclusive remedy against your direct employer under Labor Code § 3600, meaning you usually cannot sue the company that hired you. However, if a party other than your employer or a coworker contributed to your injury, you can file a separate third-party personal injury lawsuit under the exceptions in Labor Code § 3602, and you can pursue both tracks simultaneously.
Workers’ comp provides medical benefits and partial lost wages regardless of fault, but it does not cover pain and suffering. A third-party lawsuit allows recovery of full damages, including pain and suffering, emotional distress, and loss of enjoyment of life.
Non-employees injured on a construction site, including delivery drivers, subcontractors from a different company, bystanders, and pedestrians, generally must file a personal injury claim rather than a workers’ comp claim.
Workers’ Comp
Third-Party Lawsuit
Who pays
Your employer’s insurance
The at-fault third party’s insurance
Fault required
No
Yes (negligence must be proven)
Medical bills
Covered
Covered
Lost wages
Partial (typically two-thirds)
Full lost wages and earning capacity
Pain and suffering
Not available
Available (no cap in California)
Can I Sue for a Construction Accident if I Already Have Workers’ Comp?
Yes. Accepting workers’ compensation does not bar a third-party personal injury lawsuit in California. The exclusive remedy rule applies only to your own employer and does not protect general contractors, subcontractors, property owners, or equipment manufacturers whose negligence contributed to your injury.
Pursuing both tracks simultaneously is common and often results in much higher total recovery than workers’ comp alone.
Why Trust The Injury Partners for Your Beverly Hills Construction Accident Claim
Every client works directly with a founding attorney from the first call through case resolution. The Injury Partners does not use call centers, intake teams, or case managers.
Omeed Hakimianpour is a Super Lawyers® Rising Star for 2025 and 2026, a distinction awarded to only the top 2.5% of attorneys in California. He earned his degrees from UCLA and USC Gould School of Law and trained at Kirkland & Ellis, where he handled complex, high-value matters before turning to personal injury litigation.
Daniel Sabet completed the Southwestern SCALE accelerated J.D. program in two years and focuses his practice on personal injury cases for accident victims.
The firm maintains a 5.00 Google rating and has recovered over $1 million for clients on a contingency-fee basis. Construction cases involve overlapping legal systems and multiple potential defendants with separate insurance policies. They also generate OSHA and Cal/OSHA investigation records that must be obtained before corporate insurers can bury them.
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Common Causes of Construction Site Accidents
Per OSHA, approximately one in five private-sector worker fatalities occur in construction, and the Fatal Four hazard categories cause roughly 60% of all construction deaths. In 2024, 1,069 construction workers were fatally injured on the job according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The Fatal Four are:
Falls from heights, scaffolding, ladders, and roofs, accounting for 33.5% of construction deaths in 2024
Struck-by incidents involving falling or flying objects, vehicles, and equipment (11.4%)
Caught-in or caught-between accidents including trench collapse, machinery entrapment, and cave-ins (5.4%)
Electrocutions from contact with power lines, faulty wiring, or ungrounded equipment (8.4%)
Beyond the Fatal Four, common causes of construction site injuries include:
Scaffolding and ladder failures
Crane and heavy machinery accidents
Defective or malfunctioning tools and equipment
Trench and excavation collapses
Fires and explosions
Exposure to hazardous or toxic materials, including asbestos
Slips and trips on debris
Repetitive stress and overexertion injuries
Approximately 65% of construction workers perform work on scaffolds at some point, and roughly 75% of scaffold-related injuries result from falls or falling debris, making scaffolding one of the most dangerous elements on any job site.
What Are the “Fatal Four” Construction Accidents?
OSHA’s Fatal Four are the leading causes of construction worker deaths each year: falls, struck-by incidents, caught-in or caught-between accidents, and electrocutions. In 2024, these four categories accounted for 58.6% of all construction fatalities.
Falls alone caused 370 construction worker deaths that year, making fall protection the most frequently cited OSHA standard for over a decade. OSHA’s fall protection standard (29 CFR 1926 Subpart M) requires protection at heights of six feet or more, and Cal/OSHA aligned California’s residential construction standard with this federal threshold effective July 1, 2025.
Who Can Be Held Liable for a Construction Site Accident?
Construction sites involve many companies, and holding more of them accountable opens more insurance policies for your recovery. The Injury Partners investigates every source of liability from the start.
Parties that may bear responsibility include:
General contractors responsible for overall site safety and OSHA compliance
Subcontractors from a different company whose negligence caused the injury
Property owners liable for dangerous property conditions under premises liability principles
Equipment and product manufacturers facing product liability for defective machinery, tools, or materials
Architects and engineers whose design defects contributed to the hazard
Site managers and safety supervisors who failed to enforce safety standards
California is a pure comparative negligence state, meaning an injured worker can recover even if partially at fault, with damages reduced by their percentage of responsibility under Civil Code § 1431.2.
Who Is Responsible if a Subcontractor Caused My Injury?
If you were injured by the negligence of a subcontractor from a different company, you can file a third-party personal injury lawsuit against that subcontractor and potentially its employer. The exclusive remedy rule shields only your own employer, not other companies working on the same job site.
In many cases, the general contractor also bears liability for failing to enforce site-wide safety standards, even if the general contractor did not directly cause the accident. Construction claims often involve multiple defendants, each with its own insurance policy, which expands the total recovery available to you.
OSHA and Cal/OSHA Safety Standards in Construction Accident Cases
OSHA and Cal/OSHA set the safety standards that govern every construction site in California, and a violation of those standards is strong evidence of negligence in a civil claim.
Cal/OSHA operates as California’s state-level safety program with standards that meet or exceed federal OSHA requirements. As of July 2025, Cal/OSHA lowered its residential construction fall-protection trigger from 15 feet to 6 feet, aligning with the federal standard, and a Phase II expansion covering all construction activities is planned for 2026.
Both agencies inspect sites for hazard recognition, fall protection, scaffolding compliance, equipment safety, and worker training. Citations, prior violations, inspection reports, and safety-training records all become evidence in the injured worker’s civil case. A pattern of unaddressed violations can demonstrate that a contractor or site operator knew about a hazard and failed to correct it, which strengthens the negligence case and may support a claim for punitive damages.
Does an OSHA Violation Help My Construction Accident Case?
A violation does not prove liability on its own, but it establishes that the employer or contractor fell short of a recognized safety standard, which supports the negligence case.
The Injury Partners obtains OSHA investigation files, citations, and safety documentation and uses them to demonstrate that the responsible party breached its duty of care. These records often reveal inspection failures, missing safety equipment, and inadequate training that the company’s own insurer may not want disclosed.
Compensation You Can Recover After a Construction Accident
Economic damages include emergency and ongoing medical bills, future medical care and rehabilitation, lost wages and lost earning capacity, vocational retraining, and home and vehicle modifications for catastrophic injuries.
Non-economic damages, available only through a third-party claim, include pain and suffering, emotional distress, loss of enjoyment of life, disfigurement, permanent disability, and loss of consortium. California does not cap non-economic damages in standard personal injury cases.
Common catastrophic construction injuries include traumatic brain injuries, spinal cord injuries and paralysis, amputations from machinery and crush accidents, multiple fractures, severe burns, and internal injuries.
In fatal cases, surviving family members may pursue a wrongful death claim for funeral costs, lost financial support, and loss of companionship.
We know how devastating it is to face a permanent disability that prevents you from returning to the trade you built your career on, and we pursue every available source of recovery to protect your family’s future.
How Much Is a Construction Accident Claim Worth?
There is no reliable average because value depends on injury severity, the number of liable parties and available insurance policies, whether OSHA violations support the case, comparative fault, and whether workers’ comp benefits offset the recovery. Construction cases involving catastrophic injuries and multiple defendants with commercial insurance policies tend to produce much higher recoveries than workers’ comp alone. The Injury Partners evaluates every case individually during a free consultation.
What to Do After a Construction Site Accident in Beverly Hills
Take these steps to protect your health and your legal rights:
Seek immediate medical attention and document all injuries. Victims with serious injuries are transported to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center or UCLA Medical Center, both Level I trauma centers serving the Beverly Hills area.
Report the accident to your employer or site supervisor in writing.
Photograph the hazard, equipment, and site conditions before they are cleaned up or repaired. Construction sites change rapidly, and evidence disappears as work continues.
Note the equipment involved, including model and serial numbers, and document any safety failures you observed.
Get witness names and contact information.
Do not give a recorded statement to the insurance company or accept a quick settlement before consulting an attorney.
Contact a construction accident attorney so that the OSHA investigation file and site evidence can be preserved before they are altered or discarded.
Your immigration status does not affect your right to recover. In California, undocumented workers have the same right to workers’ compensation benefits and personal injury damages as any other employee. Our office is at 499 N. Canon Dr., Suite B1, Beverly Hills, CA 90210.
Talk to The Injury Partners About Your Beverly Hills Construction Accident Case Today
Construction site evidence disappears fast as equipment is moved, hazards are corrected, and sites are cleaned. The earlier we begin investigating, the stronger your case becomes. The two-year statute of limitations begins running immediately, and the OSHA investigation file and site records your case depends on are only available if preserved early.
The Injury Partners pursues both workers’ compensation and third-party lawsuits to maximize your total recovery. You work directly with an attorney from the first call, and you pay nothing unless we recover compensation on your behalf.
Call (310) 220-0066 or email info@theinjurypartners.com to schedule a free consultation. The Injury Partners represents construction accident victims from our Beverly Hills office at 499 N. Canon Dr., Suite B1, CA 90210. Our attorneys are available around the clock.
