Accidents at work/ Industrial injury
According to the Health and Safety Executives in the past year, 212 workers were killed at work, 3,028 significant injuries occurred at work and 2 million people were suffering from an illness they believed was caused or made worse by their current or past work.
If you or someone you know has had a work injury, then we can help you obtain work injury compensation for the accident or illness.
You may be able to make a work injury compensation claim for an accident at work if you can prove it was someone else’s fault. There are many rules and regulations that your employer must comply with to ensure that you are safe whilst at work. Your employer has a duty to provide you with a safe place of work, a safe way of working, safe and suitable equipment to work with and safe and competent colleagues to work with. If they do not, and you are injured as a result you may be entitled to a personal injury settlement.
As personal injury lawyers we are experienced in dealing with all sorts of accidents at work as a result of employers failing to comply with their duties such as:
- Failing to adequately guard dangerous parts of machinery.
- Exposing employees to harmful chemicals, causing back injuries as a result of failing to train employees how to lift safely.
- Trips and slips as a result of spillages or objects left on the floor.
- Injuries caused by inadequate health and safety precautions on constructions sites, for example, falling from ladders on scaffolding.
- Repetitive strain injury.
- Stress at work.
Unfortunately the list is endless.
