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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.
Restaurant work accidents – advice from The Injury Lawyers
Restaurants can be dangerous places to work in. Having worked in the catering industry as a student, dinner service can be a hectic and stressful time with servers and chefs rushing around to keep on top of orders and customers.
There are a number of potential health and safety hazards in general, so training and procedures are key in a restaurant to prevent people from being injured. So let’s take a look at some common examples where your employer may be liable to compensate you for your suffering and loss in the line of duty.
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.
Tripped on plastic shrink wrapping at work – advice from The Injury Lawyers
Any tripping accident can result in serious injuries – especially if you land on a hard floor. That’s why there are specific regulations that employers must abide by in order to protect their employees from being injured in the line of duty. The Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992 have a specific section dedicated to the condition of floors and traffic routes.
This section states the following:
(3) So far as is reasonably practicable, every floor in a workplace and the surface of every traffic route in a workplace shall be kept free from obstructions and from any article or substance which may cause a person to slip, trip or fall.
Injured by bad packaging / boxes at work – advice from The Injury lawyers
If you’re expected to lift and carry boxes and packages around the workplace, the last thing you expect is for the packaging / box to suddenly break, causing a sudden shift in weight or objects contained inside to fall out and cause you an injury.
So what if it does happen? Do you have any right to make a claim for personal injury compensation caused by the incident?
All employers do have a general duty to make sure that you’re safe in the workplace. So if they have failed to take steps to look after you, or cut corners or do things that could potentially be dangerous, you may able to claim from their insurance.
Slipped Disc at Work Injury Claim Advice
The Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992 are an important set of regulations that govern manual handling activities in the workplace. Any lifting and carrying in the workplace can be dangerous and lead to serious injuries; normally to the back.
Slipped disc injuries are amongst the worse as they often result in a lot of pain, a need for a lengthy period of rehabilitation, a lot of time off work, and possibly even surgery and lifelong problems. So if you have slipped discs at work due to carrying and lifting, can you make a claim for personal injury compensation against your employer?
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Carrying and Lifting on Uneven or Dangerous Ground
Getting manual handling activities right in the workplace is very important – injuries are easy to sustain when manual handling tasks are not carried out safely. That’s why there are specific regulations called The Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992.
But it isn’t just the practice of lifting and carrying safely that has to be done right – the route in which a load must be moved also needs to be risk assessed as well. When carrying a load, especially a large one, your view may be restricted and you’re probably concentrating on moving the load safely and not what’s beneath you on the ground.
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Hit by Falling Object from Work Van or Lorry? Injury Lawyers Advice
Whilst the use of the phrase “fallen off the back of a lorry” may usually refer to people obtaining goods for free or at a cut price, we have taken on claims for personal injury compensation where workers have been hit by stock cages or goods falling off by accident and injuring them.
So what happens if you are injured because someone fetching stock from a van or lorry fails to secure a load properly and it falls off and hits you? Or perhaps it isn’t secure in the first place?
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Knee Injuries and Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
If your job demands that you have to work at low heights and kneel, or just kneel down in general, your employer is bound by law to provide you with personal protective equipment (often known as PPE) to protect your knees from being injured.
Sustaining a knee injury from kneeling can be easy to do – and unfortunately knee injuries can result in severe and long term disability. So it is important that employers abide by the law. Engineers, plumbers, electricians – anyone who may have to work in small spaces on their knees should be provided with things such as knee pads and soft matting to kneel on.
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No Goggles or Eye Protection Provided at Work – Injury Lawyers Advice
The Personal Protective Equipment at Work Regulations 1992 state that an employer must provide, pay for, risk assess, and maintain protective equipment to employers where their health is at risk. Eye protections falls within the scope of Personal Protective Equipment, or PPE as it is known in short.
Common examples where eye protection could be necessary are:
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