Are you liable when someone slips on ice at your job site?

Work it through

You're the contractor. Pick what you'd do, then see how each choice plays out.

1. AAs the contractor actively using and affecting the walkway, you share responsibility for site safety. Report the incident, document conditions with photos, and notify your insurance. You should have been maintaining safe access throughout the project
   Correct

   When your construction activity affects access paths, you share premise liability during work hours. Salt, sand, or temporary mats on pathways your equipment uses is basic site safety. While the homeowner has primary premise liability, your construction activity's contribution to the hazard creates shared exposure. Document everything, notify your liability insurer, and implement ice management on all access paths for the remainder of the project.

2. BIt's the homeowner's property — their walkway, their ice, their problem
   Oversimplified

   If your construction activity affected the walkway conditions (equipment traffic packing snow into ice, water runoff from construction, blocked drainage), you share liability. As the contractor managing the job site, maintaining safe conditions for everyone who reasonably accesses the property is part of your duty. 'Not my property' doesn't release you from construction site safety obligations.