While accidents happen on the job, temporary workers have a higher incidence of injury and higher incidence of severe injury than permanent workers, something the CDC has pointed out. This is because temp workers are often working in high-risk industries, such as manufacturing, industrial plants, warehouses and construction sites.

Common causes of serious temporary job injuries include falling objects, workers falling from elevated equipment or structures, accidents involving forklifts and factory machinery, electrocution, carbon monoxide poisoning, and trench cave-ins. The injuries can range from broken limbs to those involving more severe brain injuries, spinal cord injuries and even death.

As pointed out by publications like ProPublica, these temporary workers often have inadequate training, safety equipment and supervision, and they’re often working 2nd and 3rd shifts – the graveyard shift.

Worse yet, temp workers are less likely to report their injuries or safety concerns, often out of fear of losing their jobs or because of language barriers.

That’s why temporary workers who have been injured on the job need experienced attorneys like those at Kline & Specter, PC. Our temporary worker accident lawyers have represented clients who have suffered severe work injuries in Philadelphia and throughout Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware. If you or someone you know has suffered a severe injury or death as a result of a temporary job, you may want to contact a temporary worker injury lawyer for a free evaluation.

The firm has a strong track record of recovering tens-of-millions of dollars for workers severely injured on the job.

Among some notable cases where Kline & Specter has secured significant awards and settlements for injured workers are:

  • The firm in July 2019 obtained a nearly $10.6 million settlement for a truck driver whose legs were crushed when a 5,000-pound steel pipe rolled off his truck during unloading at the Dura-Bond Coating Inc. pipe yard facility in Duquesne, Pa. (Read article) 
  • Only a few months earlier it won a $9.2 million jury verdict for a Reading sanitation worker whose leg was amputated in a screw conveyor at a meat processing plant when the device suddenly activated.
  • In 2018, Kline & Specter achieved a $30 million settlement with AT&T and other companies for a worker who suffered catastrophic injuries in a nearly 50-foot fall from an improperly designed and maintained cell tower. (Read article)  
  • In an earlier case, Kline & Specter won a $46.5 million jury verdict against a security company for the families of two women employees who were shot to death by a fired worker at the Kraft Foods plant in Northeast Philadelphia. The award was for compensatory and punitive damages. (See the Brown/Wilson Case)
  • In 2014, Shanin Specter and David Williams settled a wrongful death case involving a worker at a Philadelphia-area refinery for $10 million.
  • Kline & Specter obtained one of the largest settlements for an undocumented worker in negotiating a $5 million award for a man crushed to death by a collapsing excavation site.
  • The firm won a $36.4 million settlement in 2003 for a worker killed in an explosion at a Delaware oil refinery (see Davis/Motiva) The settlement is considered the largest for a single-victim fatality ever reported in the United States.
  • That same year the firm won a $7.9 million verdict in Allegheny County for a Pittsburgh worker seriously injured in a fall from a forklift.
  • In 2004, the firm won a $19.1 million verdict in Luzerne County for a woman who was struck and seriously injured by a van as she worked on a roadside construction job. (McManamon).
  • The temporary worker accident lawyers at Kline & Specter in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania will go above and beyond to determine fault in your accident, win the best possible recovery on your behalf, and see your case through suit until you are satisfied that justice has been served.

That's how our attorneys win millions on behalf of temporary worker accident victims.

Attorneys Who Listen and Care

Kline & Specter is an esteemed Pennsylvania catastrophic accident and injury law firm with more than 50 skilled attorneys, several of whom also are doctors. Our lawyers have the expertise to litigate temporary worker accident lawsuits. Please contact one of our temporary work accident attorneys today for your free accident lawsuit consultation by dialing (215) 772-1000 or 800-243-1100. We represent temporary work accident victims in Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey and nationwide.