Busy places of work can be danger zones for accidents “waiting to happen”. Each employee is required to report any accident he/she has at work to their employer as soon as it occurs or shortly afterwards and to ensure that the details are properly recorded in the workplace Accident Book.
It is illegal for your employer to terminate your employment if you make a claim for compensation.
Many factors can contribute to accidents, such as poorly maintained equipment, insufficient staff training, and a failure of your employer to provide suitable equipment for lifting, heights work or bodily protection against hazards such as corrosive or toxic chemicals and cleaning solvents.
If you have been involved in a workplace accident you may be entitled to a claim for compensation if it can be shown that your injury was caused by your employer’s negligence, breach of statutory duty or breach of contract. If a work colleague’s action contributed to a workplace accident which caused you injury, a claim against your employer is also possible.
We appreciate the distress caused to you and your dependents in the short term and also the uncertainty of how you will provide for you and them in the future. Common injuries such as back strains, bone fractures, head injury, ligament tears, joint failures, loss of fingers, toes, eye injuries and corrosive chemical exposure cause physical and emotional distress. The consequences can last a lifetime and incur further medical and equipment expense.
Ronald Fletcher & Co has experience of dealing with a wide variety of such cases and will vigorously negotiate the best settlement possible.
