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Slipped on a mat – advice from The Injury lawyers
Mats are normally there to prevent hazards – like water accumulating from rainfall at the entrance to a supermarket for example. But mats themselves can be a severe hazard if they are not secure to the ground. If they are loose and on a tiled surface, you could step on the mat and it could easily end up slipping from under you, causing an accident
So if you are the unfortunate victim of stepping on to a mat which is not secure and it has slipped, causing you an injury, do you have the right to make a claim for personal injury compensation?
Scaffolding accidents at work – advice from The Injury Lawyers
Accidents at work involving scaffolding are common, and can often lead to serious injuries. We have represented many victims who have had to make a claim for personal injury compensation for the suffering and financial loss caused as a result of negligence in the workplace relating to scaffolding.
So if you have been injured at work in a scaffolding accident, you may have a claim – here are some examples where you may have a successful case.
Health and Safety – Trailing Wires Compensation Claims
Wires – an obvious tripping hazard that can cause serious injuries if a person lands hard on the ground having tripped over wires, or getting their foot caught and falling due to trailing wires. When it comes to public places in general, there is always a duty to make sure that there are no tripping hazards so there should never be trailing wires.
In an office where it is workers that are often covered by important workplace health and safety regulations, trailing wires can easy lead to an employer being liable to compensate an employee.
Slipped on a ramp – advice from The Injury Lawyers
For some reason, a lot of ramps can often get very slippery in wet weather, and you’d think they’d have really good grip on them given that a sloped surface could be even more of a hazard if it’s slippery.
If you are the victim of a slip on a ramp, can you make a claim for personal injury compensation? I’ll split this one in to two sections – one for accidents at work, and one for general ones when out and about.
Tripped on raised paving caused by tree roots? Advice from The Injury Lawyers
To give you the insight as to whether you have a potentially winning claim if this has happened to you, I need to explain in brief how the law works:
The Highways Act 1980 puts a duty on local councils and highways authorities to take all reasonable steps to prevent a defect on the highway becoming a hazard. So to do this, they must employ a system of inspection and maintenance to review roads and paths for defects that have formed. These can be potholes, broken kerbs, or anything that could cause a tripping hazard.
A reasonable system of inspection should take in to account how busy the area is. So a city centre road may be inspected every one to three months, and a country road could be every 12 months. So if they can prove that they have a system that is reasonable, they’ve kept to it, and that the defect that caused your injury must have arisen in between inspection periods, they can very easily defend your claim.
Slips and trips on a broken piece of wall or a fixture / fitting – Advice from The Injury Lawyers
The Occupiers Liability Act is an important piece of health and safety legislation that puts a duty on those who are in control of a premises to take all reasonable steps to avoid visitors being injured. So keeping the place maintained is an important thing to do – allowing a place to fall in to disrepair and become a hazard would leave the owners of such a place liable to compensate any injured victims.
Some examples of slips and trips caused like this could be:
- From a piece of concrete or wall or roof coming off and causing a trip of slip hazard due to poor maintenance.
- Slip on a broken piece or section of fallen off tiling – these specifically can be very slippery.
- Injury caused by a piece of defective chair or table or other fixture that has broken off through ill repair.
So what happens if you are the victim of such an accident? Can you make a claim for personal injury compensation?
Slipped on Wet Floor after being Mopped – Injury Lawyers Advice
A claim for personal injury compensation for a slipping accident can sometimes be difficult to win when it comes to spillages. The reason for this is that the duty, whether it’s against a supermarket or your employer, is that areas of the premises need to be routinely inspected to clear away hazards. So if you slip on a spillage and the other side can show they have taken all reasonable steps in inspecting the premises to prevent this from happening as much as they can, they can defend the claim.
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Falling Down a Manhole Accident Claim – Injury Lawyers Advice
Whilst this may seem like a hilarious thing to witness, falling down a manhole is no laughing matter at all. We take on a lot of these types of claims from either missing covers or damaged covers that collapse inwards when stepped on. No one expects the cover to just cave in.
The injuries that a person can sustain can be serious – particularly if you fall part or all the way in. Bone and ligament damage is common in both lower and upper limbs caused by impact trauma, as well as severe lacerations and bodily harm caused when falling down.
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Slipped on Loose Ground, Paving Slabs, Cobblestones or Broken Concrete
When injured in the street, most people are the victim of a trip or fall accident caused by defective paving or potholes. But slipping accidents can be equally as dangerous, caused by the same sorts of defects.
You could slip on the edge of a pothole, or slip on broken and crumbled concrete around a defect. A loose paving slab or cobble stone could move and cause you to slip.
The law is generally the same; as long as the defect was the cause of the injury, you may have a valid slip, tip or fall injury claim for compensation. In fact, slipping accidents can sometimes be worse if you twist your knee or your back. You could easily cause serious ligament damage even if you don’t end up falling to the ground.
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Trip or Slip Accident Caused by Raised or Loose Carpet – Injury Lawyers Advice
Carpets, when frayed, loose, or raised, can be a real danger. You can easily slip on a loose section if it moves or trip due to a lip caused by it being raised or frayed. This kind of danger should never become an oversight.
So what happens if you are in a shop or a restaurant or other public place, or perhaps at work, and you are injured due to a dangerous piece of carpet? Can you make a slip or trip claim for personal injury compensation?
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