Scaffolding-related injuries often involve multiple layers of responsibility: the property owner or project manager, the general contractor, the subcontractor working at height, and sometimes the entity that supplied or maintained the scaffold components.
In practice, that means adjusters may try to narrow the story to “worker error” or “they should have climbed differently.” But in scaffolding cases, the key question is usually broader: was the setup and fall protection system reasonably safe for the task being performed, and was it maintained and inspected as the work progressed?


