I've been doing construction work for about fifteen years and I've always been careful, but you can't watch out for everyone else's mistakes no matter how hard you try. I was working on a new build site over near Greenville, part of a framing crew putting up exterior walls on a two-story house. Another crew was handling the bracing and they swore everything was secured, but when we went to lift the next wall section the wind caught it and the whole thing started to go. I tried to get out of the way but the corner of the wall caught me across the back and drove me into the foundation. I ended up with two fractured vertebrae and a whole lot of nerve damage that's left me with numbness in my left leg and a limp that the doctors aren't sure is ever going to fully go away. The company I work for has been giving me the runaround for months now, saying because I'm technically a subcontractor maybe I don't qualify for the same benefits, and they keep asking me if I have my own insurance. I've never had to deal with something this serious before and I'm completely lost. A guy I know who does concrete work told me that construction cases are a whole different animal, especially when there's more than one crew involved and questions about who was responsible for what. He said I should talk to a construction accident lawyer Greenville NY who deals with these kinds of site accidents because trying to untangle who's liable and how workers comp applies when you're a subcontractor is way beyond what I can figure out on my own. I guess I'm just looking to see if anyone else in the trades has been through something like this and can tell me whether it's worth the fight or if I'm just going to end up stuck with the medical bills and no way to work again.