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Alex Shulman
Founded in 2013, Shulman & Hill Injury Lawyers helps injured New Yorkers pursue workers’ compensation benefits, personal injury lawsuits, and related claims after serious jobsite and property injuries.
Our Queens electrocution accident lawyers can investigate the wiring, equipment, worksite, contractors, maintenance records, safety procedures, and insurance coverage tied to the incident.
If you were injured by electric shock, unsafe wiring, live power, defective equipment, or another electrical hazard, contact Shulman & Hill for a free consultation with a Queens workers’ compensation lawyer.
What You Should Do After an Electrical Injury
Get medical care right away after an electric shock or suspected electrical exposure. Even if the injury seems minor, electrical current can affect the heart, nerves, muscles, and brain.
Tell the doctor the injury involved electricity and explain whether you fell, lost consciousness, felt chest symptoms, or had burns, numbness, weakness, or confusion.
Then, protect the claim as best you can:
- Report the incident to your employer, supervisor, site manager, or property owner.
- Ask that the report include the electrical source, location, and equipment involved.
- Take photos of the area, wiring, tool, panel, outlet, cord, or hazard if you can do so safely.
- Write down the names of witnesses and any companies working nearby.
- Keep medical records, work notes, pay records, and insurance letters.
- Do not repair, throw away, or return damaged tools or protective gear if they may be evidence.
- Speak with a lawyer before giving a recorded statement to an insurance carrier.
You do not have to know the exact electrical cause before asking for legal help. Our Queens personal injury lawyers can investigate the source of power, who controlled it, and whether safety steps were skipped.
Why Electrical Injuries Are Different From Many Other Work Injuries
An electrical injury can damage the body in several ways at once. Current can pass through tissue, affect the heart, damage nerves, cause burns below the skin, or trigger a fall from a ladder, scaffold, lift, or elevated surface.
Some symptoms appear right away, while others may become more obvious over time.
Visible Injuries
Visible injuries can include burns, entry and exit wounds, cuts, bruising, fractures, or trauma from a fall. These injuries are often documented in emergency records, photos, surgical notes, and follow-up treatment plans.
Injuries You Feel Before They Are Diagnosed
Nerve pain, numbness, weakness, muscle damage, headaches, dizziness, memory issues, sleep problems, and heart rhythm concerns may require further testing. A worker may look “fine” to an insurance adjuster while still dealing with serious symptoms.
Injuries That Affect Your Ability to Work
Electrical injuries can make it unsafe or impossible to return to the same job. Pain, hand weakness, balance issues, cardiac restrictions, burns, scarring, or fear of working near electricity again can all affect your earning ability.
A Queens electrocution accident attorney can help connect your medical records, job duties, and work restrictions to the legal claim.
Workers’ Compensation for Electrical Injuries at Work
If you were hurt while doing your job, New York workers’ compensation may provide medical care and wage benefits. You do not have to prove your employer meant to hurt you. Workers’ compensation is often the first claim after a job-related electrical injury.
Benefits may include:
- Emergency care.
- Hospital treatment.
- Specialist visits.
- Medication.
- Physical therapy or occupational therapy.
- Reimbursement for certain travel costs to medical appointments.
- Wage benefits if you miss enough time from work.
- Reduced earnings benefits if your injury forces you into lower-paid work.
- Awards for certain permanent injuries.
- Death benefits for eligible family members.
You may still be entitled to medical benefits even if you keep working after the injury. Lost wage benefits depend on your disability, wage loss, and medical proof.
Shulman & Hill represents injured workers in New York workers’ compensation claims, including many blue-collar and public-sector workers. We do not represent federal employees, including USPS workers, because those claims are handled under a different system.
When an Electrical Injury May Support a Lawsuit
Workers’ compensation is not always the full legal picture. If someone outside your employer caused or contributed to the electrical hazard, you may also have a third-party personal injury lawsuit.
A third-party lawsuit may apply when:
- A property owner ignored unsafe wiring.
- A general contractor failed to keep the site safe.
- A subcontractor left wires energized or exposed.
- A maintenance company performed unsafe repairs.
- A utility contractor created a power hazard.
- A rental company supplied unsafe equipment.
- A manufacturer sold a defective tool, machine, cord, or electrical component.
A personal injury lawsuit may allow you to seek damages that workers’ compensation usually does not pay, including pain and suffering, full lost earnings, future earning loss, and the long-term effect of the injury on your life.
Compensation After an Electric Shock or Electrocution Injury
The compensation available depends on the claims you have. Workers’ compensation may help with medical care and wage benefits. A third-party lawsuit may allow a broader financial recovery.
Depending on the facts, compensation may account for:
- Medical treatment.
- Lost wages.
- Reduced earning ability.
- Pain and suffering.
- Future care needs.
- Rehabilitation.
- Permanent disability.
- Scarring or disfigurement.
- Loss of enjoyment of life.
- Wrongful death damages for eligible family members.
The value of the case depends on the injury, medical proof, ability to work, available insurance, and evidence showing who caused the electrical hazard.
How Our Queens Electrocution Accident Lawyers at Shulman & Hill Can Help With Your Claim
After an electrical injury, you may be dealing with doctors, employers, insurance adjusters, and outside investigators all at once. Shulman & Hill can step in and protect the legal claim while you focus on treatment.
We can help by:
- Filing or strengthening your workers’ compensation claim.
- Responding to denied or delayed benefits.
- Investigating the electrical source and worksite conditions.
- Identifying owners, contractors, vendors, and manufacturers involved.
- Reviewing whether New York Labor Law applies.
- Preserving records before they are changed or lost.
- Gathering medical and wage proof.
- Handling communication with insurance carriers.
- Preparing the case for settlement talks or litigation.
Our firm has recovered over $1 billion for clients and has served more than 26,000 people.
We are based in Manhattan, with offices across the boroughs, giving injured Queens workers access to a New York firm with the resources to handle serious injury claims.
Contact a Queens Electrocution Accident Attorney Today
If you were injured by electric shock, unsafe wiring, live power, defective equipment, or an electrical hazard in Queens, get legal advice before the evidence disappears or the insurance company narrows your claim.
Contact Shulman & Hill today for a free consultation with an electrocution accident attorney in Queens. Every Borough, Every Block, New York, We Got You.
