{"id":2110,"date":"2018-07-23T16:30:20","date_gmt":"2018-07-23T20:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/?p=2110"},"modified":"2018-07-09T16:33:05","modified_gmt":"2018-07-09T20:33:05","slug":"stairway-staircase-falls-in-syracuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/stairway-staircase-falls-in-syracuse\/","title":{"rendered":"Stairway\/Staircase Falls in Syracuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stairs can become a safety hazard if they are not maintained properly. In fact, most stair related accidents would not happen if not for the carelessness of someone. If you have slipped and hurt yourself on stairs on someone else\u2019s property, you may be entitled to compensation. At DeFrancisco\u00a0&amp; Falgiatano\u00a0Personal Injury Lawyers, our hard-working Syracuse slip and fall attorneys will analyze the facts of your case and help you understand your legal rights and options.<\/p>\n<p>The National <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nsc.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Safety Council<\/a> reports that over 1 million injuries occur every year as the result of stairway falls. In fact, staircase and stairway accidents are the second leading cause of accidental injury, falling behind only motor vehicle accidents. Nearly 100,000 children under the age of 5 suffer stair-related injuries on an annual basis. Dangerous stairway conditions can be the result of common wear and tear, negligent maintenance or even poor maintenance. Common causes of staircase hazards that can lead to accidents causing injury include, but are not limited to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Loose or missing handrail,<\/li>\n<li>Unevenly spaced risers;<\/li>\n<li>Chipped, worn, cracked, broken or missing steps;<\/li>\n<li>Poorly lit stairwells;<\/li>\n<li>Slick or slippery stairs;<\/li>\n<li>Debris or clutter on stairs;<\/li>\n<li>Loose or damaged treads, runners or carpeting.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/stairway-staircase-falls-in-syracuse\/#more-2110\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stairs can become a safety hazard if they are not maintained properly. In fact, most stair related accidents would not happen if not for the carelessness of someone. If you have slipped and hurt yourself on stairs on someone else\u2019s property, you may be entitled to compensation. At DeFrancisco\u00a0&amp; Falgiatano\u00a0Personal Injury Lawyers, our hard-working Syracuse [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-premises-liability"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Stairway\/Staircase Falls in Syracuse &#8212; Syracuse Personal Injury Law Blog &#8212; July 23, 2018<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Stairs can become a safety hazard if they are not maintained properly. In fact, most stair related accidents would not happen if not for the carelessness &#8212; July 23, 2018\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/stairway-staircase-falls-in-syracuse\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Stairway\/Staircase Falls in Syracuse &#8212; Syracuse Personal Injury Law Blog &#8212; July 23, 2018\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Stairs can become a safety hazard if they are not maintained properly. In fact, most stair related accidents would not happen if not for the carelessness &#8212; July 23, 2018\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Jeff DeFrancisco\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Stairway\/Staircase Falls in Syracuse &#8212; Syracuse Personal Injury Law Blog &#8212; July 23, 2018","description":"Stairs can become a safety hazard if they are not maintained properly. In fact, most stair related accidents would not happen if not for the carelessness &#8212; July 23, 2018","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/stairway-staircase-falls-in-syracuse\/","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_title":"Stairway\/Staircase Falls in Syracuse &#8212; Syracuse Personal Injury Law Blog &#8212; July 23, 2018","twitter_description":"Stairs can become a safety hazard if they are not maintained properly. In fact, most stair related accidents would not happen if not for the carelessness &#8212; July 23, 2018","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Jeff DeFrancisco","Est. reading time":"3 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/stairway-staircase-falls-in-syracuse\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/stairway-staircase-falls-in-syracuse\/"},"author":{"name":"Jeff DeFrancisco","@id":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/798006ba40dee3a60d61603f8022a9f9"},"headline":"Stairway\/Staircase Falls in Syracuse","datePublished":"2018-07-23T20:30:20+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/stairway-staircase-falls-in-syracuse\/"},"wordCount":565,"articleSection":["Premises Liability"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/stairway-staircase-falls-in-syracuse\/","url":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/stairway-staircase-falls-in-syracuse\/","name":"Stairway\/Staircase Falls in Syracuse &#8212; Syracuse Personal Injury Law Blog &#8212; July 23, 2018","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/#website"},"datePublished":"2018-07-23T20:30:20+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/798006ba40dee3a60d61603f8022a9f9"},"description":"Stairs can become a safety hazard if they are not maintained properly. In fact, most stair related accidents would not happen if not for the carelessness &#8212; July 23, 2018","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/stairway-staircase-falls-in-syracuse\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/stairway-staircase-falls-in-syracuse\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/stairway-staircase-falls-in-syracuse\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Stairway\/Staircase Falls in Syracuse"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/","name":"Syracuse Personal Injury Law Blog","description":"Published by New York Medical Malpractice Attorneys \u2014 DeFrancisco &amp; Falgiatano","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/798006ba40dee3a60d61603f8022a9f9","name":"Jeff DeFrancisco","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7f6660cf0b9e029623b52ccc2e33d1fef7eb66d590325c2b6a1fb85d5ef1e2cb?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7f6660cf0b9e029623b52ccc2e33d1fef7eb66d590325c2b6a1fb85d5ef1e2cb?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7f6660cf0b9e029623b52ccc2e33d1fef7eb66d590325c2b6a1fb85d5ef1e2cb?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Jeff DeFrancisco"}}]}},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2110"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2116,"href":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2110\/revisions\/2116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}