Wettermark Keith has a downtown Knoxville office and has recovered compensation in more than 50,000 cases, including serious construction accident injuries.
If you or a loved one has been hurt on a jobsite anywhere in the Knoxville area – from the active corridor along I-40 through West Knoxville to the mixed-use projects downtown, the infrastructure work along Alcoa Highway, or industrial sites across Knox, Blount, Anderson, and Loudon counties – our attorneys are ready to hear your story. Call us today or complete the form to start your free case review.
Knoxville's construction boom keeps workers and bystanders at serious risk – and employers move quickly to minimize their liability.
A framing worker falls through an unguarded floor opening at a multifamily project near downtown Knoxville. A subcontractor is struck by a reversing excavator on a road expansion job along I-75. A utility worker suffers an electrical burn when a general contractor fails to lock out live equipment before sending crew onto a jobsite on Chapman Highway. These incidents happen in Knox County every year, and the responsible parties have insurance teams working the moment an injury is reported.
Construction cases are different – you may have both a workers’ comp claim and a third-party lawsuit.
Tennessee workers’ compensation covers medical bills and wage replacement when your employer’s negligence causes injury – but it caps your recovery and bars pain-and-suffering damages. When a third party is responsible – a general contractor, equipment manufacturer, property owner, or another subcontractor on the site – you can pursue a separate personal injury claim on top of your workers’ comp benefits. Identifying every liable party is often the most valuable work we do in construction cases.
Tennessee law puts a one-year clock on your claim.
The statute of limitations for most personal injury claims in Tennessee is one year from the date of injury under T.C.A. § 28-3-104. Tennessee’s modified comparative fault rule bars any recovery if you are found 50% or more at fault. Employers and their insurers know both deadlines and fault rules well – and they begin building a defense file the day of the accident. Cases filed in Knox County Circuit Court often benefit from prompt investigation before evidence from the jobsite is altered, cleaned up, or destroyed.
How our Knoxville attorneys build your case.
At Wettermark Keith, we act quickly to protect your right to full compensation. Our team will:
- Investigate the jobsite and preserve physical evidence, photos, and witness statements before the site is modified.
- Obtain OSHA inspection records, incident reports, and safety logs from Knox County and state regulators.
- Identify every potentially liable party – employer, general contractor, subcontractors, equipment manufacturers, and property owners.
- Work with engineering and safety experts when disputed facts require independent analysis.
- Coordinate your workers’ comp claim alongside any third-party lawsuit to maximize your total recovery.
- Build a case designed to survive Tennessee’s 50% comparative-fault bar.
We pursue compensation for medical bills, lost wages, permanent disability, pain and suffering, and – in cases involving egregious safety violations – punitive damages.
