WHY YOU NEED A CLEAN JOB SITE

The following article was written by Miami Construction Lawyer Alex Barthet and appeared first on TheLienZone. It was re-posted with permission. For more information about Alex and his firm, please visit www.TheLienZone.com and www.Barthet.com.

See below for some great information we found on the importance of keeping a clean job site. Remember, don’t ever hesitate to call us here at Licenses, Etc.! If we don’t have the information, we can find it!

A tile setter, who occasionally did work for a general contractor, was asked by that contractor’s supervisor to inspect the tile work in a home being remodeled. He was to provide an estimate on what could be done to fix the tile work in the house. When the tile setter got to the house he found a carpenter was working at the front door, so he attempted to make his way into the house through the garage. But there, the tile setter tripped and fell on piled up construction debris. He suffered complex fractures to both arms and sued the general contractor for failing to keep a safe job site.

The general contractor argued that it shouldn’t be held liable since the debris in the garage was so obvious. But the appellate court determined that because the contractor had invited the tile setter on the property, and because the front door was blocked by the carpenter working for the contractor, then the contractor had an obligation to clear a safe path through the garage to accommodate the tile setter he was expecting.

A warning to all contractors; keep a clean job site, especially at all pathways in and out of the work site.