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When Should You Make A Work Accident Claim?
People are often a little put off by the thought of having to sue their employer. That being said, we live in an age now where compulsory insurance allows people the right to take action and make a claim for personal injury compensation where they are genuinely injured through negligence.
We have rather stringent health and safety regulation in the UK which helps to keep accidents and fatalities in the workplace down – so where there is a breach, you should always make a claim if you are injured and entitled to.
Injured by Dangerous Pipes at Work – Injury Lawyers Advice
Pipes – perhaps not one of the first things you think of when it comes to dangers in the workplace. But you’d be surprised as to how many claims we have taken on and won that involve simple things like pipes in the workplace.
They can pose a real danger in the workplace – let’s look at some examples and how your employer may be in breach of important health and safety legislation.
HGV and Lorry Accidents in a Work Yard
Work yards can be dangerous places. By this I’m talking about haulage yards and factory or distribution yards where goods are normally loaded on to vehicles for transport.
In this article we will look at some rules and regulations for employers and employees when it comes to conduct in such a yard to ensure no one is injured. From people being hit by wagons or tugs to accidents when loading goods on to vehicles, there are many dangers that need to be addressed.
Refuse Collector Accident Claims – Advice from The Injury Lawyers
Bin men are often wrongfully snubbed by society when in reality they perform one heck of a valuable job. But it’s also a potentially dangerous job, and we are more than used to taking on and winning claims for personal injury compensation for refuse collectors injured in the line of duty.
Whether you’re employed directly with a local authority or to a privately outsourced company, or even when you are an agency worker contracted to a company or council, you have rights!
Claims advice for injuries suffered from falling equipment or machinery at work
There should always be provisions in place to ensure that employees are not injured by falling equipment or machinery. Of course, these kinds of accidents are often serious – leaving the victims with either severe or fatal injuries.
Health and Safety for this kind of thing is strict as it should never be allowed to happen. Let’s take a look at when an employer can be negligent in this kind of scenario.
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Accident Injury from Working in a Pub, Club, or Bar Advice
I’ve worked in pubs and bars before – in the busy periods, it can be a rushed and occasionally stressful experience. There’s nothing worse than a crowded bar full of people all waiting desperately to be served their poison.
That, and the fact that places like these are often full of intoxicated people, means that there can be many hazards involved in working in this trade. So let’s take a look at some examples and the law when it comes to an employee’s rights to make a claim for personal injury compensation.
Stepped on a Scaffolding Board and Fallen Through Compensation Advice
Whilst you’d think that falling injuries are the most common when it comes to accidents for workers, another really common one is when boards and platforms for walking on are unstable or defective. We have won many claims for compensation against employers and scaffolding companies where someone has stepped on a dodgy board and has either fallen through it or part of their body has gone through.
If this has happened to you, what are your rights when it comes to making a worker’s compensation claim?
Manual Handling and Lifting Injury Claims Due to Broken Equipment
The idea behind The Manual Handling Operations Regulations is to avoid the need for any kind of lifting in the workplace as much as possible. Equipment is a great way of eliminating potentially dangerous manual handling activities – but what happens if that equipment is broken and is taken away?
What happens if you are then forced to carry out manual handling activities as a result of the equipment that is used to eliminate the need for manual handling suddenly becoming unavailable?
Eye Injuries at Work Claims Advice
I say this a lot on the blogs I write – there are loads and loads of rules and regulations that employers must abide by to protect their employees in the workplace. They cover all sorts of things that range from general workplace health and safety to manual handling and working at height.
When your job means that you or a part of your body will be exposed to a potential danger, your employer must take all reasonable steps to prevent an injury. So let’s look at eye injuries and how these can be avoided.
Cluttered Workplace Injury Claims Advice
One of my first jobs was in a warehouse for a well known retail outlet. This was before my career in law, but looking back at it now, there were health and safety dangers all over the place! Around their busiest periods across Christmas, the stock room, which was relatively small, would be packed with toys and goods that would be cluttered all over the ground as well as on the shelves.
This poor health and safety practice could have paved the way for a winning claim if someone was to be injured. Cluttered workplaces can mean your employer is in breach of important health and safety legislation.