Your Trusted Chicago Construction Accident Lawyer
If you were hurt on a construction site in Chicago, you may be facing serious injuries, lost wages, and confusion about who is responsible and what you can recover. You do not have to figure it out alone. Furqan Mohammed helps injured construction workers across Chicago pursue every source of compensation they are owed.
Understanding Your Right to Compensation After a Construction Accident
Construction is one of the most dangerous industries, and a single site accident can cause life-altering injuries. If you were hurt on the job, you may have more than one source of recovery: workers’ compensation benefits from your employer, and a separate third-party injury claim against others whose negligence contributed. In most cases you have two years from the date of injury to file a third-party claim in Illinois (735 ILCS 5/13-202).
Common Construction Accidents
Most serious construction injuries fall into a handful of categories that safety officials call the leading causes of on-site harm:
Falls from heights
Struck-by objects
Electrocutions
Caught-in or between
Scaffolding and equipment failures
Workers' Comp and Third-Party Claims
If you were injured working construction, you can generally receive workers’ compensation from your employer regardless of fault, but it usually bars you from suing your employer directly. When someone other than your employer, such as a general contractor, subcontractor, property owner, or equipment manufacturer, contributed to your injury, you may also bring a separate third-party claim for full damages, including pain and suffering that workers’ comp does not pay.
Pursuing both together often maximizes your recovery. Illinois follows modified comparative negligence for third-party claims: you can recover as long as you are not more than 50% at fault (735 ILCS 5/2-1116).
Types of Compensation
Between workers’ compensation and a third-party claim, you may be able to recover for a range of losses, including:
Medical expenses
Covers emergency care, hospitalization, therapy, and future medical needs
Lost income
Reimburses wages lost due to injury and diminished earning capacity
Property damage
Repairs or replaces your vehicle and other damaged property
Pain and suffering
Accounts for physical pain, emotional distress, and loss of normal life
Loss of consortium
Compensation for harm to spousal relationships
How Furqan Mohammed Can Help
A construction accident lawyer like Furqan Mohammed can pursue every avenue of recovery, including:
- Securing your workers’ compensation benefits
- Identifying every negligent party beyond your employer
- Preserving site evidence, safety records, and witness accounts
- Bringing a third-party claim for pain, suffering, and full damages
Construction cases are complex, often involving multiple contractors, insurers, and safety rules. Furqan Mohammed untangles who is responsible and, if needed, files suit in the Circuit Court of Cook County. The firm serves injured construction workers across Chicago, with assistance available in Arabic and other languages.
Frequently Asked Questions
Often yes. You can usually receive workers' compensation from your employer and, separately, bring a third-party claim against another negligent party, such as a general contractor or equipment maker, for full damages.
General contractors, subcontractors, property owners, engineers, and equipment manufacturers can all be liable if their negligence contributed to your injury.
In most cases, two years from the date of injury for a third-party claim in Illinois (735 ILCS 5/13-202). Workers' compensation has its own deadlines, so it is best to act quickly.
Falls from heights, being struck by objects, electrocutions, and caught-in or between accidents cause most serious construction injuries.
Workers' compensation is no-fault, so partial fault does not bar those benefits. For a third-party claim, Illinois lets you recover as long as you are not more than 50% at fault (735 ILCS 5/2-1116).
