Work Injury

You can claim for injury at work

Work accidents happen often, more often than most people think. But very often, in order to save themselves from legal prosecution, some companies go to great lengths to sweep injury at work cases under the carpet, so to speak.

At Davies and Company Solicitors we want you to know exactly what your rights are in the case of work accidents and that work injury compensation is your right where blame can be established.

If you are in the unfortunate position of being a victim of an injury at work or a work related illness caused either by another employee or perhaps the company itself, you have a strong chance of claiming work injury compensation.

A safe environment

According to the law, your employer has to provide you with a safe working environment. This includes providing suitable working areas and flooring, special equipment and clothing and adequate safety training. If your employer has not kept his side of the bargain and this has led to an injury at work, your chances of work injury compensation are strengthened tenfold.

The most common work accidents are related to handling, lifting and carrying. These can result in back injuries or even spinal injuries. There are also many instances of falling, slip and trip injuries, and being hit by objects or vehicles, which can result in limb injuries and even worse. Unsafe machinery causes many work accidents a year including amputations of fingers, toes and limbs.

Burns and chemical burns happen in a variety of injuries at work, and many skin conditions such as dermatitis are contracted each year at work.

Conditions and injuries

Long term diseases - especially lung conditions such as asthma and COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease) - can be also contracted at work due to exposure to excessive dust or chemicals. Four percent of cancer deaths in the UK are due to work related causes.

Work accidents happen at the office, too. If the accident was not your fault you can make a claim for work injury compensation. It could be tripping over loose cabling, injuring your back carrying heavy or awkward items, been scalded, or injured by falling office furniture.

Deafness

Machinery is often a major factor in noisy environments that can cause long term hearing loss. All these instances can lead to successful work injury compensation, successful if you have the professionals on your side, like us.

Industrial deafness in classed as injury at work and although this can be complex to prove and the claimant would need to ensure that they gather enough witnesses and other evidence to have any chance of success. This is a highly specialist area of the law but we have industrial deafness solicitors who specialise in these cases.

Our team of NO WIN, NO FEE solicitors at claimssolicitors.co.uk are highly experienced with the wide variety of claims that arise from the workplace.