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Sheet metal worker cases run under the standard Labor Law framework, with §240 frequently available given the elevation-related nature of much sheet metal work:
Sheet Metal Workers Local 28 (SMART Local 28) is the primary sheet metal workers’ union in NYC. Local 28 members work on commercial HVAC, architectural metals, and industrial mechanical systems. The training pipeline (apprenticeship through journeyman) is extensive, and skilled members earn substantial wages including overtime and benefits.
For Local 28 members injured on construction sites, we coordinate with the union, document the full wage and benefit picture, and work with vocational experts familiar with sheet metal work for return-to-work analyses.
Falls produce the catastrophic injuries common to all elevated trade work — TBI, spinal injuries, complex fractures. Sheet metal lacerations can be severe; deep cuts to the hand, forearm, or thigh sometimes require surgical repair and can affect career capacity. Lift and strain injuries frequently produce herniated discs that affect long-term ability to do the trade.
Sheet metal cases turn on coordination — between the sheet metal sub and the structural trades, between rough-in and finish, between the GC’s safety expectations and the actual conditions on site. A working developer reads the coordination documents and the OAC minutes fluently and recognizes when coordination breakdowns produced the conditions for injury.
Same categories. Lost earning capacity is often substantial for skilled Local 28 members.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome.
In a typical negligence case, the defense will argue your case down with comparative-fault arguments — that you weren’t paying attention, that you took a shortcut, that you should have known better. Under §240, those arguments generally cannot defeat the claim. That is why §240 cases tend to settle higher and earlier than negligence-only construction cases.
