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Landscaping and tree care work involves a number of high-risk job and a fair amount of heavy equipment capable of malfunctioning and causing serious injury. Landscaping service workers and tree service employees are at risk of injury from a wide variety of potential hazards in this industry, including exposure to chemicals, noise, machinery, heavy lifting, and vehicle and traffic hazards.

Common injuries involve large equipment like boom trucks, tree trimmers, wood chippers, lawnmowers, tractors, chain saws, ladders and scaffolding and other power tools. Landscapers and gardeners may also face toxic exposure injuries from pesticides and other hazardous chemicals.

Joe Lyon is an experienced Personal Injury Lawyer and Product Liability Attorney investigating landscaping accidents and tree care injuries for plaintiffs nationwide.

Defective machinery and management negligence can lead to severe and permanent injury.

Tree Care Injury & Landscaping Accidents

Tree Care Accidents

The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) compiles safety data on both landscaping employment and tree service occupations, and notes the various dangers and risks involved with such jobs. OSHA outlines safety guidelines for each job to avoid toxic exposures, heat stroke, slips and falls, amputations and lacerations, entrapment, electrocutions, and other injury.

Negligence and the removing of safeguards from machinery can lead to worker injury. Machine defects and defective power tools may cause serious tree service and landscaping accidents.

May tree service and tree trimming injuries include falls from heights, tool defects and a lack of training. Landscaping accidents can be caused by heavy machine malfunction, poor safety training, and lack of protective equipment.

Defective Landscaping Equipment

Beyond heavy landscaping, even basic lawn care equipment can be dangerous.  Lawnmowers and hedge trimmers have been recalled because they do not have safety features, safeguards, and have improper warnings.

Any landscaping equipment that has a sharp blade can pose serious safety risks. Many of these products are sold without readable warnings and consumers often have to figure out how to operate the machine safely on their own.

Lawnmowers have  been recalled because small debris and rocks get stuck in the machine and shoot out at high velocity.  Some gas-powered landscaping equipment has also caused injury due to overheating, burn injury and fire risks.

The Lyon Firm works with OSHA safety violation experts to determine the root cause of tree care and landscaping accidents.

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ABOUT THE LYON FIRM

Joseph Lyon has 17 years of experience representing individuals in complex litigation matters. He has represented individuals in every state against many of the largest companies in the world.

The Firm focuses on single-event civil cases and class actions involving corporate neglect & fraud, toxic exposure, product defects & recalls, medical malpractice, and invasion of privacy.

NO COST UNLESS WE WIN

The Firm offers contingency fees, advancing all costs of the litigation, and accepting the full financial risk, allowing our clients full access to the legal system while reducing the financial stress while they focus on their healthcare and financial needs.

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Why are these cases important?

Serious injuries and accidents often result through no fault of the injured party, yet the injured victim suffers from life altering physical, mental and financial losses. Such economic and human losses can have devastating financial consequences for individuals and families if not properly compensated. Tort law allows those individuals to seek just legal recourse through personal injury lawsuits.

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Questions about Personal Injury Cases

What is a Personal Injury Lawsuit?

Any kind of negligence by an individual or company that causes injury or harm can lead to filing a personal injury lawsuit. The amount a plaintiff is entitled to depends on several factors, particularly how egregious the act and how serious the injury.

Personal injury attorneys generally only will take cases on a confidential and contingency fee basis, which means your lawyer will only get paid if he or she is able to reach a settlement or positive verdict. The Lyon Firm will review your case for free and assess what compensation any plaintiff can expect through litigation.

Personal Injury cases can range from minor auto accidents to complex lawsuits filed against large corporations. The Lyon Firm has handled both with equal care. Severe injury requires legal action on occasion, no matter if the injury is the result of a vehicle accident, a dog bite, a boating accident, workplace injury, defective consumer products, medical malpractice, or toxic exposure.

What is the Process?

Pre-Suit Investigation and Negotiations: Personal injury lawsuits are unique and require a thorough investigation before a lawsuit is filed. An initial investigation involves gathering all relevant medical records, accident reports, and interviews with available witnesses.  Preservation letters are drafted to notify the defendant of the case. The duty to preserve electronic evidence is critical in most cases to prevent spoliation.

Filing a Lawsuit in Cincinnati: If pre-suit negotiations are unsuccessful, then a lawsuit must be filed to preserve the statute of limitations.  Filing a lawsuit early in the process is often necessary to begin gathering evidence while the witnesses memories are fresh and documents remain available.

Once suit is filed by your personal injury lawyer, the court will set a case management schedule and the parties will begin exchanging information in the formal process of discovery. Depositions will be taken to preserve testimony for trial and to understand what certain witnesses are likely to say at trial.

Proving Negligence, Causation and Damages: In addition to lay witness testimony and other documentary evidence, personal injury claims rely upon medical and scientific evidence to prove negligence, causation and damages. The chosen expert in a case must have a reliable and sound basis in science and in the facts of the case or his opinion may not be admissible under the rules of evidence.

In the areas of Toxic and Environmental Torts, the admission of expert testimony may be scrutinized harder than in other areas simply because the subject may not have been as widely tested and may rest on novel scientific theories.

Are there any limits to what I can recover?

Each state will vary. Under Ohio law, an injured party may recover damages related to medical expenses, lost wages, property damage, loss of enjoyment of life, past pain and suffering, future pain and suffering, and punitive damages. The numerical limits are as such:

  1. Non-Catastrophic Injury:   The non-economic award is limited to $250,000 per plaintiff, or three times the economic loss, up to $350,000 per plaintiff. A maximum of $500,000 for each “occurrence.”
  2. Catastrophic Injury: No limits.

The Lyon Firm may be able to file injury claims and recover rightful compensation for clients for medical expenses, pain and suffering, lost earnings and long-term disability.

Why should I hire The Lyon Firm?

Our Firm will help you find the answers.  The Firm has the experience, resources and dedication to take on difficult and emotional cases and help our clients obtain the justice for the wrong they have suffered. 

Experience:  Joe Lyon is an experienced Cincinnati Personal Injury Lawyer. The Lyon Firm has 17 years of experience and success representing individuals and plaintiffs in all fifty states, and in a variety of complex civil litigation matters.   Personal Injury lawsuits can be complex and require industry experts to determine the root cause of an accident or injury.  Mr. Lyon has worked with experts nationwide to assist individuals understand why an injury occurred and what can be done to improve their lives in the future. Some cases may go to a jury trial, though many others can be settled out of court.

Resources/Dedication: Mr. Lyon has worked with experts in the fields of accident reconstruction, biomechanics, epidemiology, metallurgy, pharmacology, toxicology, human factors, workplace safety, life care planning, economics, and virtually every medical discipline in successfully representing Plaintiffs across numerous areas of law. The Lyon Firm is dedicated to building the strongest cases possible for clients and their critical interests.

Results:  Mr. Lyon has obtained numerous seven and six figure results.

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