Accident Injury at Work, Employer Liability, Factory Accident Injury
Accident Injury at Work
If you can prove that your employer is at fault, another employee or another person/company working at your workplace. We could help you claim compensation against them with initial payments to cover your loss of earnings, medical costs and other associated costs to make your claim.
Manual Work Injury
Manual handling is responsible for over 40% of workplace injuries according to the HSE, not only back injuries as people may initially think. Manual handling also causes a variety of upper and lower limb and muscular injuries.
The Health and Safety Regulations 1992 specify what an employer should do to prevent an injury being caused by manual handling. They require employers to consider the whole task rather than emphasis on the weight. They have to consider the weights involved in a manual handling job but also the environment and nature of the job being preformed.
Faulty Work Equipment
Accidents and injuries at work are often caused by old work equipment.
Work equipment must be suitable for the purpose for which it is provided and employers must take steps to reduce any risk the machinery may have upon an employee's health and safety.
All employers must ensure that work equipment is maintained in a good working manner and in good repair. Employees must be given training to use the equipment, thereby mitigating any risk to the employee. Measures have to be taken to protect employees against dangerous or potentially faulty machine parts, for example covers on moving parts, proper work gloves when handling hazardous substances etc.
Claiming Compensation for a Slip/Trip Accident.
Slips and trips account for numerous workplace accidents and injuries. Workers may have tripped over obstructions left in the wrong place, spillages which have not been mopped up or tripped over worn out flooring.
There is legislation which places obligations on employers and others responsible for premises to protect workers from slips and trips.
When you can claim for a slip/trip at work
These accidents can happen either in the workplace or on different work sites. Situations where compensation claims are successful may involve -
1. The employer did not repair or warn of a tripping hazard (e.g. an undone piece of carpet/flooring)
2. The employer did not use a suitable floor covering in the workplace
3. Falls down stairs where safety measures should have been used.
These are just a few of the workplace scenarios that may occur in many different ways.
People often do not progress with a legitimate claim for compensation because they are concerned that the trip/slip was their fault.
Having settled numerous claims of the above nature we are experienced in dealing with issues surrounding these claims.
