Construction and workplace injury attorneys who stand with you.
A serious workplace injury can rob you of your livelihood, your physical ability, and your sense of security, sometimes in an instant. You deserve more than a weekly check from a workers' comp carrier.
At Gold & Gold, P.A., we represent workers injured on construction sites, in industrial facilities, and in any workplace where someone else's negligence made a dangerous condition possible. We go beyond the workers' compensation claim to identify every party whose conduct contributed to your injury: the general contractor who ran an unsafe site, the subcontractor who skipped safety protocols, the equipment manufacturer whose product failed, and the property owner who knew about a hazard and did nothing.
For over forty years, our trial team has taken these cases to verdict. We understand OSHA standards, construction-contract liability chains, and the expert testimony needed to prove what went wrong and who is responsible.
Why legal support matters after a workplace injury.
Workers' compensation covers only a fraction of what a serious injury actually costs. An experienced trial attorney pursues the full picture:
Identifying every third party whose negligence contributed to the injury
Preserving site conditions, equipment, and safety records before they change
Coordinating the workers' comp claim and the third-party lawsuit simultaneously
Retaining OSHA compliance experts, safety engineers, and vocational specialists
Pursuing the general contractor, property owner, and equipment manufacturer in parallel
Fighting for full non-economic damages, pain, suffering, and loss of life enjoyment, that workers' comp never pays
The accidents we handle every day.
Construction is consistently among the most dangerous industries in Florida. We handle the full range of site injuries, from falls and electrocutions to product defects and structural failures.
We represent workers across the spectrum of site and industrial injuries:
Falls from elevation, the leading cause of construction fatalities, involving ladders, roofs, scaffolding, open floors, and unguarded edges where OSHA-required fall protection was absent or defective.
Electrocutions and electrical burns, contact with energized lines, defective equipment, improper lockout-tagout procedures, and unguarded electrical panels causing severe burns, cardiac injury, and death.
Struck-by incidents, workers hit by falling objects, swinging crane loads, backing vehicles, or projectiles from power tools, often caused by inadequate site control or equipment failure.
Scaffolding collapses, failures in erection, bracing, load capacity, or planking caused by the scaffolding contractor, the general contractor, or defective components.
Construction defects causing injury, structural failures, improper shoring, trench collapses, and building defects that injure workers or subsequent occupants.
Machinery and equipment failures, presses, saws, lifts, and heavy equipment that malfunction due to design defects, inadequate guarding, or maintenance failures, reaching the manufacturer directly.
Workers' comp is only the beginning.
Workers' compensation does not bar your lawsuit against non-employers.
Florida workers' compensation provides wage replacement and medical benefits, but it bars you from suing your employer for additional damages. It does not bar claims against general contractors, property owners, subcontractors, equipment manufacturers, or any other party who contributed to your injury but did not employ you. These third-party claims can recover full economic damages, pain and suffering, permanent disability, and lost future earnings that workers' comp never touches. In many serious cases, the third-party recovery dwarfs the comp benefits. We pursue both tracks together so nothing is left behind.
Site-injury cases are won on the investigation.
Construction sites change quickly. Evidence disappears, equipment gets repaired, and witnesses scatter. We move immediately:
Securing the scene and all records
Site photographs, surveillance footage, OSHA inspection reports, safety meeting logs, subcontract agreements, and equipment maintenance records, preserved before the project moves on.
Mapping the liability chain
Construction projects involve layers of general contractors, subcontractors, owners, and suppliers. We review every contract to find who owed you a duty of care and where it was breached.
Retaining safety and engineering experts
OSHA compliance specialists, structural engineers, and electrical experts establish what the applicable standard required and exactly how the defendant fell short.
Documenting the human impact
Vocational rehabilitation experts and life-care planners quantify the full scope of your lost earning capacity and future care needs, evidence that juries need to understand what was taken from you.
Third-party claims go far beyond workers' comp benefits.
- Past and future medical expenses
- Lost wages and destroyed earning capacity
- Lifetime rehabilitation and home-care costs
- Prosthetics, assistive equipment, and modifications
- Out-of-pocket costs related to the injury
- Pain and suffering
- Permanent disability and disfigurement
- Emotional distress and psychological harm
- Loss of enjoyment of life
- Loss of consortium for affected family members
In cases of willful OSHA violations or deliberate concealment of hazards, Florida law allows pursuit of punitive damages against general contractors and property owners who consciously disregarded worker safety.
Time is the one thing you cannot recover.
Florida's statute of limitations gives most workplace and construction injury victims two years to file a third-party lawsuit. That window can feel long, but construction sites are dynamic, and critical evidence vanishes fast. Scaffolding gets dismantled, equipment gets repaired or sold, OSHA citations get resolved, and key subcontractor employees move to other jobs.
General contractors and property owners retain defense counsel immediately and begin shaping the narrative. You need a team doing the same from day one. The sooner you reach us, the sooner we secure the evidence, identify every responsible party, and begin building the case your injury deserves. If we take your case, you owe us nothing unless we win.