Wyoming's High-Risk Industries
Wyoming's economy is built on physically demanding, hazardous work. Oilfield and gas-extraction sites, coal mines, drilling rigs, construction projects, and ranches all carry serious injury risks — falls, equipment failures, explosions, vehicle and machinery accidents, and exposure to hazardous materials. The state has historically reported one of the highest workplace fatality rates in the country, driven largely by its energy and resource industries.
Workers' Compensation and Its Limits
Most injured Wyoming workers are covered by the state's workers' compensation system, which provides medical benefits and partial wage replacement regardless of fault. But workers' comp does not pay for pain and suffering and may not fully cover a serious injury. Critically, workers' comp is usually the exclusive remedy against an employer — but it does not bar claims against negligent third parties.
Third-Party Claims Can Mean Full Compensation
When someone other than your employer contributed to your injury — a subcontractor, equipment manufacturer, property owner, or another driver — you may have a third-party personal injury claim in addition to workers' comp. These claims can recover the full range of damages, including pain and suffering, that workers' comp does not. Identifying every potentially responsible party is often the key to truly full compensation.
How We Help Injured Workers
Network attorneys evaluate both your workers' compensation benefits and any third-party claims, investigate the cause of the accident, and pursue every available source of recovery. You focus on healing; your attorney pursues the maximum compensation the law allows.
Injured in Wyoming? Get a free, confidential case review today. There's no obligation, and you pay no fee unless you win. Call 973-566-5599.
Frequently Asked Questions
Usually workers' compensation is the exclusive remedy against an employer. However, you may have a separate third-party claim against another negligent party, which can recover damages workers' comp does not.
It's a personal injury claim against someone other than your employer — such as a subcontractor, equipment maker, or another driver — whose negligence contributed to your injury. It can recover pain and suffering and more.
Workers' comp helps, but it doesn't pay for pain and suffering and may not fully cover a serious injury. A free review can identify whether a third-party claim is available.