Text ACCIDENT to 82010
Call us on 0800 783 9019
Injuries at work - personal injury compensation claims advice
We secure compensation from those responsible for your injuries
We guarantee that you will keep 100% of your settlement
You will not pay any legal fees
Contact us on 0800 783 9019 for assistance
Clear Answers' solicitors provide expert advice and thousands of claimants write to us each year thanking us for our legal services and our attention to their personal needs. Roger Adams, one of our clients says, "Legal service was fantastic from start to finish... they were really thorough and determined in pursuing the best settlement they could get for me."
Compensation claim advice for personal injuries through workplace accidents
If you have been unfortunate enough to have suffered a personal injury at work, contact Clear Answers' personal injury solicitors on 0800 783 9019. Our solicitors have been a leading force in securing injury at work compensation for over 85 years.
We have acted on behalf of injured people in every industry and manufacturing sector. Over the years have led the way within the legal sector and made it easier for injured people to obtain the personal injury accident compensation that they deserve.
Clear Answers' lawyers, Thompsons Solicitors, form the most experienced personal injury firm in the UK and possess a depth of knowledge and expertise in all personal injury compensation claims, particularly injury at work compensation claims, that is unrivalled.
- Making a personal injury compensation claim
- Injuries at work - the Law
- Injury at work caused by a colleague's mistake
- Injury at work compensation claims - our clients stories
- Successful injury at work cases we have dealt with
- Injury at work news stories
- Injury at work - useful website links
- Compensation claim for injuries at work
Making a personal injury compensation claim
If an accident happens and you sustain an injury at work, wherever possible always complete the workplace accident report in your own words. If possible take photographs and ask for the names and home addresses of witnesses to your accident at work. Keep a record of any doctors visited and treatments received and keep receipts for any injury related expenses.
For more details visit our section on gathering information and evidence.
It is always important to obtain prompt specialist advice from an accident claim solicitor, someone who specialises in personal injury compensation claims and injury at work compensation claims.
Strict time limits apply for making a personal injury compensation claim, so please seek expert legal advice as soon as you think you may have a valid claim for compensation.
Clear Answers' specialist personal injury lawyers will be able to advise you whether an injury at work compensation claim is possible and can give guidance and assistance on how a personal injury compensation claim can be pursued.
Visit our information and advice section for more details.
In addition to this Clear Answers' accident solicitors operate on a cost free basis. Our personal injury lawyers recover their legal fees from the person responsible for your injury at work, ensuring that the entire compensation claims procedure is cost-free for you.
Contact 0800 783 9019 and speak to one of our accident advice solicitors who will be able to advise you as to whether or not you have a valid personal injury compensation claim.
Their specialist injury at work lawyers will be happy to talk you through the compensation claims process in plain English, as well as answering any questions or queries you may have. Alternatively, fill out one of our injured at work online compensation claim forms and one of our representatives will contact you as soon as possible.
[ Back To Top ]
Injuries at work - the Law
An employer has a duty of care to its employees and has to safeguard them against being injured at work under the law of negligence. In addition to this, all employees have legal rights due to various regulations that are in place. They protect everyone in the workplace including employees, contractors and visitors, from the risk of personal injury. These regulations include:
Work equipment for the "tools of the trade"
We can explain why this law puts automatic liability on an employer for equipment that is faulty which injures you, even where no one could reasonably foresee the equipment failing and causing you injury. That is a much higher duty than the law of negligence which is all about "foreseeability". A good personal injury lawyer will use that law to enforce your rights in a work compensation claim.
The Workplace Regulations
Personal injuries, especially injuries at work can come from many sources; therefore these regulations take into account the condition and safety of the workplace and cover a broad spectrum of eventualities. This includes, slips, trips and falls at work, your workstation, doors, windows, gates and all the parts that make up the workplace.
Manual Handling Regulations
Manual handling accidents are a common source of injuries at work. This set of regulations take into account all forms of lifting and manual handling accidents and injuries at work.
If a task at work involves manual handling and in addition carries with it the risk of injury, it is the employer's legal duty to carry out a risk assessment and find an alternative way to perform the task with no risk or less risk of injury. This applies to one-off lifts as well as repeated every day lifting.
If an employer does not carry out this duty and an injury at work is sustained as a result of a manual handling accident, then it is possible to make an injury at work compensation claim.
Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act
The Corporate Manslaughter Act came into force in April 2008 and will apply to accidents at work where gross management failures can be proved. For more details on this important change to the law, please go to our news story about the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act Receives Royal Assent
Other laws to protect workers include:
- Personal and Protective Equipment Regulations - This refers to all cases where protective equipment (gloves, goggles, etc.) is required.
- Construction Sites - There are detailed provisions designed to protect those who sustain injuries at work in the building trade.
- There is also a separate set of regulations for anyone who falls from a height at work called the Work At Height Regulations
- Display Screen Equipment - This set of regulations deals with matters such as the layout for workstations, computers etc
- Chemicals and other Substances - This takes into account the control of substances hazardous to health regulations
- The Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998 -
These Regulations deal with work equipment, its suitability, use, maintenance, inspection and training etc
We can advise on whether a chemical involved in a workplace accident is listed by law and whether your employer should simply not expose you to it at all or, if it is permitted, what measures should be taken to prevent injury.
We have won, arguably, the most important recent case in this area of law in which the Court of Appeal accepted an employee should not be exposed to a hazardous substance when a safer one was available, even where the employer did not know it could cause injury. If your personal injury is through long-term exposure to a substance, you will find advice and details of this case in our Industrial Disease section.
In addition, there are many other regulations dealing with specific industries such as shipbuilding and ship repair, foundries and a variety of more unusual workplaces.
Regulations are now set out in such a way that employers are obliged to avoid risks entirely if this is possible; if this is not the case they are expected to minimise the risk of injury at work to the lowest possible level.
In order to succeed in a claim for accident compensation if you have suffered an injury at work, you have to firstly prove what it was that happened, secondly that this occurred as a result of the employers negligence or breach of statutory duty and thirdly that your injuries and losses have occurred as a direct result of this work related accident.
It is also important to remember that even if you have suffered an injury at work in an accident that was partly your own fault, you may still be successful in a claim. However, your accident compensation would be reduced accordingly to reflect your own level of responsibility.
[ Back To Top ]
Injury at work caused by a colleague's mistake
An injury at work sustained in an accident that has happened as a result of a mistake made by a work colleague can also be pursued. You do not need to worry that they may be made to pay. This principle is called vicarious liability and makes the employer liable for the negligence of their employees. This principle can also apply if you are injured at work as a result of a prank by a work colleague during the course of their employment.
[ Back To Top ]
Injury at work compensation claims - our clients stories
Injury at work whilst using a crane
Our solicitors represented a client who sustained an injury at work whilst using a crane. The client had previously raised concerns about the safety of the machinery although his warnings went unheeded by his employers. The client was injured when a piece of metal fell from the crane cutting him on his leg. We were able to recover £3,500 for the client in damages. The client said of his compensation success: "I am very pleased with the outcome and also with your services. All the best in the future and I thank you again."
Slipping in a pool of oil at his place of work
Our client was injured after slipping in a pool of oil at his place of work. The client suffered damage to his hand, as well as cuts and bruises to his face and one of his legs. Our solicitors were able to obtain £1,750 in compensation.
The client comments: "Thanks for all your help with the successful claim. I would definitely recommend you to other people who require solicitors. I look forward to receiving the compensation. Once again thanks very much."
Tripping accident at work
Another client who suffered a tripping accident after a waste paper basket had been left lying in a corridor. The client fell heavily damaging her knee in the process and had decreased mobility for over three months.
Clear Answers' personal injury solicitors recovered £1,127 in compensation. The client says: "Thank you for the cheque for £1,127. I would also like to thank you and your staff for the excellent service I have received."
[ Back To Top ]
Successful injury at work cases we have dealt with
Clear Answers' specialist solicitors, Thompsons Solicitors, has extensive experience in dealing with all types of injury at work accidents, with very many satisfied clients. Please go to our Injury at Work Compensation Claims That We Have Dealt With section to read just a few examples of our successful personal injury compensation claims, or click on one of the examples below.
- Breach of Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations
- Injury At Work Compensation For Defective On/Off Switch
- Assaulted at work after repeated warnings and other violent incidents were ignored
- Laboratory Technician wins compensation for manual handling injury resulting in a back injury
- Civil Servant receives compensation after being injured in accident at work caused by unsafe furniture
- Young man permanently disabled by crush injury to his hand
- Driver injured at work because of unsafe workplace
- Client injured at work whilst carrying out Health & Safety repairs
- Butcher injured at work due to lack of risk assessment
- Man suffers injury at work as he carries out routine safety checks on his work vehicle
- Client burnt his arm in a workplace accident as he supervised a group on board a workboat
[ Back To Top ]
Injury at work news stories
Clear Answers injury at work solicitors deal with a large number of accident cases each year. Details of some of these personal injury compensation claims can be found in our News Section which is updated regularly.
Below are a selection of injury at work compensation claims that we have fought, as well as related news stories. To view the full story click on the links beneath the description. Alternatively you can visit our Personal Injury News Section to view these stories and other successful personal injury compensation claims that Clear Answers solicitors have been involved in.
August 2010
Work accident compensation following serious hand injury
Our client suffered serious injuries to his hand, partially severing it, when he was injured in a work accident. Our personal injury lawyers were able to secure in excess of half a million pounds in this work accident compensation claim on behalf of our client, who was unable to continue working for his own construction company.
More about Work accident compensation following serious hand injury
Serious injury following moving object accident at work
Our client’s injuries in this accident at work, had included a complex fracture to his ankle, which required several surgical procedures to correct and may still require further surgery, a soft tissue injury to the lumbar spine that took several months to resolve, and other serious injuries causing considerable pain and discomfort.
More about
Serious injury following moving object accident at work
Accident compensation for injury in fork lift truck accident
Although the defendant, the employer, admitted some liability for our client’s injuries following this forklift truck accident, our specialist accident at work lawyers were forced to issue court proceedings in order to obtain a satisfactory sum in accident compensation. However, some time before the trial date, they were able to negotiate an acceptable sum of almost £100,000 in work accident compensation.
More about
Accident compensation for injury in fork lift truck accident
Work accident compensation for NHS worker
Our client in this accident at work suffered a serious injury in a manual handling accident. Our specialist work accident compensation solicitors were able to secure a six-figure sum in manual handling compensation when our client was unable to return to work.
More about Work accident compensation for NHS worker
June 2010
Fitness to work – new system for returning to work after sickness or personal injury
Many of the compensation claims that specialist personal injury lawyers like ourselves deal with every year, involve client’s who are seeking a phased return to work. Everyone will have their own individual reasons for wanting to get back to work, be it financial, therapeutic, or just the need to get their life back to some sort of normality.
Although they may not be able to carry out the duties they performed before their accident or injury, they may still feel that they can contribute and that working would aid their recovery, if not to full fitness, then to achieve the best level of fitness they can.
More about Fitness to work – new system for returning to work after sickness or personal injury
May 2010
Accident compensation for multiple fractures after manual handling accident
Our client in this work accident compensation claim had suffered multiple fractures to his leg when a load that he was moving on a trolley became unbalanced and fell on top of him. The load fell onto his leg and caused fractures to his tibia and fibula, both of which required emergency surgery.
More about Accident compensation for multiple fractures after manual handling accident
April 2010
Accident compensation for shoulder injury
The defendant in this work accident compensation claim, our client’s employer, refused to negotiate an acceptable settlement following her manual handling injury, though our specialist work accident lawyers were able to negotiate two interim payments for our client.
When no reasonable offer was forthcoming, our lawyers were forced to issue court proceedings. However, before the trial date, they were able to negotiate over £65,000 in work accident compensation.
More about Accident compensation for shoulder injury
March 2010
Work accident compensation claim for stock handler
Our client in this work accident compensation claim had suffered an injury when she slipped and fell during the course of her work. At the time of the work accident, she had been moving stock on a carousel, which required her to stand on a platform. The edge of the platform was chipped and broken and as she moved the stock around, she slipped on the edge of the platform and fell several feet to the floor below.
More about Work accident compensation claim for stock handler
Myths about risk assessments and slips and trips
In one of their recent Myth busting articles (February 2010) the HSE tackled the perception that “There's nothing you can do about slips and trips and they don't really hurt anyone anyway”. This was immediately followed (March 2010) by the myth that “Risk assessment is too complicated for me to do!”
More about
Myths about risk assessments and slips and trips
Fatal work accident compensation for tanker driver
In 2007, Mr Bell, our client’s husband, was injured at work when he fell from the top of a tanker. He was required to clean the tanker but had to do so without the benefit of a gantry. The provision of a gantry is normal practice throughout the haulage industry, and would have provided Mr Bell with a solid and safe raised platform on which to stand whilst cleaning the tanker. Such a gantry was provided by the defendant following Mr Bell’s fatal accident.
More about Fatal work accident compensation for tanker driver
IOSH suggest businesses should be a good employer and neighbour
IOSH encourage businesses to do all they can to ensure the safety of their employees and visitors, as well as being a good neighbour. Their position is to encourage the view that health and safety should be seen as protecting people, not endangering them. By carrying out the clearing of snow and ice from areas outside their boundaries, they would be helping to reduce the possibility of accidents.
More about IOSH suggest businesses should be good a employer
Health & Safety Executive - Myth about throwing sweets at pantos
The HSE issued a seasonal
“Myth of the Month” to wave goodbye to 2009. Some pantomimes that took place during the Christmas period chose not to follow the long-held panto tradition of throwing out sweets to the audience.
The truth behind this particular misconception of health and safety regulations is that the risk of serious injury by being hit by a flying object such as a sweet is incredibly low.
More about Myth about throwing sweets at pantos
Accident compensation for machine operator’s hand injury
We were asked for our specialist accident at work claim advice by this client when he injured his hand in a work accident involving the machine on which he had been working for only a short time.
The defendant admitted liability for our client’s accident at work and his subsequent injuries, which had left him with some disability and scarring. Following extensive negotiation, our specialist accident compensation lawyer was able to secure substantial compensation for his client, which included for future reduced earnings due to his being unable to return to this type of work.
More about Accident compensation for machine operator's hand injury
Accident compensation for secretary who slipped and fell
Our specialist accident at work lawyer was obliged to issue court proceedings on behalf of this client, despite the defendant having admitted liability, because its insurers refused to put forward a reasonable sum in compensation. Before the trial date, however, we were able to negotiate a substantial increase in the amount of compensation offered, which our client accepted.
More about
Accident compensation for secretary who slipped and fell
Accident at work compensation for worker injured by moving vehicle
Our specialist accident at work lawyer was able to secure over £200,000 in accident at work compensation for this seriously injured client. He was working in a site compound when a van, driven by another employee, struck him from behind and drove over his leg.
More about Compensation for worker injured by moving vehicle
Fatal accident compensation for widow
Our client’s husband was an overhead line worker. He suffered a serious accident at work when the basket in which he and 2 colleagues were travelling, detached itself and they fell from a height of approximately 20 feet onto the ground below. He was taken to hospital and underwent detailed examination, including x-ray and CT scan, but tragically died 3 weeks later.
His widow asked for our fatal injury compensation claim advice and went on to ask us to represent her in bringing a claim for accident compensation for the loss of her husband, on behalf of herself and his estate.
More about Fatal accident compensation for widow
Health & Safety Executive - Myth about school experiments
The Health & Safety Executive (HSE) exists in order to prevent death, injury and ill health to those at work and those affected by work activities, and contrary to what you might read or hear in the media, this is about saving lives and not stopping people living.
To try to overcome some of the myths which have grown up over time, the HSE website publishes a “Myth of the Month” which aims to present the real truth behind some of the public perceptions of health and safety regulations.
More about Health & Safety Executive - November myth of the month
Accident at work compensation after fall from height
Our client suffered multiple fractures affecting both arms and both legs when he fell from a height of over 15 feet onto a concrete floor. He had been carrying out a maintenance repair when the improvised platform that he had been provided with, slipped and fell to the floor below.
Our specialist accident at work lawyer brought this compensation claim on the grounds that several regulations had been breached in allowing our client to work in this manner.
More about Accident at work compensation after fall from height
October 2009Serious head and brain injury caused by falling equipment
Our client was working on a mobile platform when a heavy piece of equipment fell from above, striking him forcefully on the head. There was no warning and he had no chance to avoid the object as it fell.
The blow caused a severe head injury and he suffered extensive brain injury. This serious accident at work has left him with ongoing conditions, including epilepsy, deafness, a poor sense of balance, and other cognitive problems.
Our specialist serious injury lawyers were able to secure a substantial sum in work accident compensation. The sum reflects the extent of his injuries and the loss of income for the rest of his working life.
More about Serious head and brain injury caused by falling equipment
Compensation for shop worker who slipped and fell at work
Our client, a shop worker, asked for our personal injury compensation claim advice following an accident at work. She slipped and fell, breaking her wrist and suffering other injuries.
Although her employer, the defendant, admitted liability, our specialist slip, trip and fall lawyers were forced to issue court proceedings in order to fight for an acceptable sum in accident compensation.
More about Compenstion for shop worker who slipped and fell at work
Accident compensation for serious eye injury
Our client suffered a serious eye injury in an accident at work. The defendant, his employer, admitted liability for causing this accident at work, but it was necessary for our specialist personal injury lawyers to issue court proceedings before we could negotiate an acceptable settlement.
Our client was awarded a substantial sum in this accident compensation claim for the damage to his eye following an accident at work, which should have been avoided.
More about Accident compensation for serious eye injury
Annual HSE fatal accident at work figures
In March 2009, the HSE (Health & Safety Executive) reported a provisional 6-month figure of 90 fatal accidents at work (see our News item “HSE latest fatal injury numbers” dated 2nd March 2009). Based on historical data, this was on target to be a record low, with a significant decrease on the previous five-year average. The provisional figure was in fact a 22% decrease on that average.
Figures issued by the HSE for the 12-month period to end of March 2009 have confirmed this trend with an annual figure of 180. However, it must be remembered that this figure is provisional until June 2010 when fatalities that can occur some time after the accident at work will be taken into account.
More about Annual HSE fatal accident at work figures
Serious injury at work leaves client disabled
Our specialist injury at work lawyers were able to secure substantial damages for our client who was left severely disadvantaged in the open labour market after an accident at work.
Although the defendant admitted liability for our client’s injuries at work, their insurers refused to negotiate an acceptable settlement value and we were forced to issue court proceedings.
Before the trial date, we were able to recommend our client accept a six-figure sum in accident at work compensation for his serious injuries and future loss of income.
More about Serious injury at work leaves client disabled
Over £100,000 injury at work compensation for amputation injury
When the machine that our client operated was modified with new guards and an automatic start up, she received no additional training on safe methods of operating or cleaning the machine.
When our specialist personal injury lawyers issued court proceedings, the defendant admitted liability for her work related injuries and we were eventually able to negotiate satisfactory compensation in excess of £100,000 for our client’s amputation injuries.
More about Over £100,000 injury at work compensation
Hernia injury compensation to manufacturing worker
Our client suffered a hernia when working in a fast moving manufacturing environment. His job involved the manual handling of bulky items as they constantly streamed down a conveyor belt.
Our specialist accident at work lawyers were forced to issue court proceedings when the defendant’s insurer refused to negotiate an acceptable settlement for this manual handling injury. Eventually we were able to secure £20,000 in injury at work compensation.
More about
Hernia injury compensation to manufacturing worker
Back injury at work compensation due to inadequate training
Employed as a nurse, our client asked for our advice about bringing a claim for personal injury compensation when she was injured at work. The defendant’s insurer refused to negotiate a settlement and it was necessary for our specialist personal injury lawyers to issue court proceedings.
We continued to fight for our client’s rightful compensation for her injury at work and were eventually able to negotiate satisfactory settlement terms before the trial date.
Our client received over £40,000 in compensation for her accident at work. The case was cost-free to our client and she retained 100% of the personal injury compensation awarded for her permanent back injury.
More about Back injury at work compensation
Assaulted at work by patient who had suffered brain damage
Our specialist personal injury lawyers were able to secure assault at work compensation for our client when she was injured in a violent attack at work. It was necessary to issue court proceedings when the other side’s insurers refused to negotiate an acceptable settlement. However, some time before the trial date, we were able to negotiate in excess of £40,000 in assault at work compensation, which our client was pleased to accept.
More about Assaulted at work by patient who had suffered brain damage
Failed equipment causes neck injury at work
Our client suffered a neck injury at work when a piece of equipment he was using during a maintenance procedure, failed causing him to fall backwards, suffering injuries to his neck. Our specialist personal injury lawyers provided injury at work advice and he asked us to represent him in bringing a claim for accident at work compensation.
More about Failed equipment causes neck injury at work
Assaulted at work by violent resident
Working with people who need special care because of long-term mental health conditions, or others recovering from head or brain injuries, can be particularly rewarding. However, when those responsible for the safety of those careworkers fail to protect them in their working environment, the consequences can be traumatic.
Our client asked for our personal injury claim advice when she was the victim of an assault at work, which should have been prevented.
More about Assaulted at work by violent resident
Known tripping hazard ignored causing accident at work
Although it was known that the exit of the building where he worked was often obstructed by a build-up of waste bags, management had failed to reduce or remove the risk, exposing our client to a reasonably foreseeable risk of injury presented by this tripping hazard.
When he did indeed trip and fall over the bags, and injure his shoulder, he asked for accident at work compensation advice from our specialist personal injury lawyers, the most experienced personal injury law firm in the UK.
Clear Answers’ specialist lawyers issued court proceedings for this slip, trip and fall compensation claim. However, they were eventually able to negotiate an acceptable settlement prior to the trial date.
More about Known tripping hazard ignored causing accident at work
Industrial disease compensation awarded to tunneller
Some years prior to his retirement, our client had begun to experience severe breathing difficulties. When he was diagnosed with both silicosis and lung cancer, as a result of the negligent exposure by his employers, he was advised to seek personal injury advice about making a claim for personal injury compensation.
Our specialist personal injury solicitors were able to negotiate a substantial sum in industrial disease compensation for our client’s pain and suffering.
More about
Industrial disease compensation awarded to tunneller
Construction worker seeks personal injury advice after amputation
A construction worker asked for our specialist personal injury advice after he needed his leg amputated below the knee following a completely avoidable construction site accident at work.
Although the construction site management initially denied liability, we were able to secure £335,000 in accident at work compensation for our client.
More about Worker seeks personal injury advice after amputation
Compensation for ambulance worker seriously injured at work
The defendant refused to admit liability and our specialist accident at work lawyers were forced to issue court proceedings. However, before the trial date we were able to negotiate over £200,000 in injury at work compensation.
Despite repeatedly being advised that there were mechanical problems with the type of stretcher being used at the time of this work accident, management had failed to take action to correct the problem.
More about Ambulance worker seriously injured at work
Tripping accident at work causes permanent injury to employee
Our specialist personal injury lawyers were able to help this client who suffered a serious injury in a tripping accident at work. This was despite the obstruction having been brought to the attention of management.
The employer admitted liability for the injury at work and we were able to negotiate a settlement of over £18,000 in injury at work compensation.
More about Tripping accident at work
HSE latest fatal injury numbers indicate a reduction on previous years
The Health & Safety Executive has stated that there were 90 fatal injuries to workers for the six months up to end September 2008.
However, the HSE stresses that these figures are highly provisional, as there are frequently a few incidents which are reported late each year, and some fatal investigations may still be ongoing. It will be March 2010 before these figures are finalised, and they will also include deaths up to a year after the date of the accident. A reporting year covers the period 1 April to 31 March.
More about HSE latest fatal injury numbers
Accident compensation for worker injured at work in tripping accident
A maintenance worker who was frequently required to carry out work on the roof, asked for our personal injury compensation claim advice when he tripped and fell on an unmarked hazard. Although liability was admitted by his employer, their insurers refused to agree an acceptable settlement, and our specialist accident at work lawyers were forced to issue court proceedings. However, before the trial, we were able to negotiate personal injury compensation of over £20,000 in compensation for our client’s pain and suffering, and ongoing discomfort and restricted movement.
More about Worker injured at work in tripping accident
Accident compensation awarded to manager in manual handling accident
As a senior manager, our client worked in a large office in a role which did not involve any physical duties. However, during an office move, and despite receiving no training in the correct manual handling procedures, he was instructed by his line manager to assist in moving a box of confidential material. As he lifted the box, he felt a sudden sharp pain in his back.
More about Manual handling accident
Accident at work compensation for injuries in office move
Clear Answers' solicitors were asked for accident compensation claim advice by this client who sustained personal injuries at work when he tripped and fell during an office move. Our client worked in the offices of a major corporation who had recently moved the offices of our client from one floor to another. No provision was made for assisting with the removals and our client and his colleagues were told to move everything themselves.
More about Injuries in office move
Widow Of Man In Fatal Accident At Work Receives Compensation
The widow of a man crushed to death in a tragic accident at work, has received compensation for the loss of her husband.
Damages were claimed under the Law Reform Act and / or Fatal Accidents Act 1976 (amended by the Administration of Justice Act 1982).
More about Widow Of Man In Fatal Accident
Serious Fork Lift Truck Injury at Work Results in substantial Compensation
Our Client, a Bristol man, suffered significant injuries at work when he was struck by a reversing forklift truck in a totally avoidable factory accident at work. Despite wearing personal protective equipment, he suffered several fractures in his foot and his steel toe-capped boots were pulled off his foot and ankle by the force of the forklift truck.
More about Serious Fork Lift Truck Injury at Work
Fatal Injuries At Work - Compensation For Family Of Man Crushed To Death
The family of a man crushed to death has received a substantial sum in fatal injuries compensation for the loss of their husband and father through an accident at work. The victim was tragically crushed to death when a misunderstanding led to a colleague starting the machine in which he was working.
More about Compensation For Family Of Man Crushed To Death
Manual Handling Accident Results In Compensation For Service Engineer
Although lifting formed a major part of our client’s duties, at no time had he been provided with manual handling training, a clear breach of his employer’s duty of care under the Manual Handling Regulations.
More about Manual Handling Accident Results In Compensation
Breach of Manual Handling Regulations Results In Injury For Care Worker
Our client asked us for manual handling claim advice following an injury at work. A care worker, she had many years experience in working with the elderly. However, despite complaints to her employer, she had not been provided with the manual handling training she needed to correctly handle patients who were completely immobile.
More about Breach of Manual Handling Regulations
Overfilled Post Bags Cause Injury To Post Van Driver
Employed by his local Police Authority, our client suffered an injury at work because his employer, the defendants, had failed to uphold their duty of care to protect him against risk of injury in his workplace. Our client had been a post van driver for several years with the defendant when the accident at work occurred.
More about Overfilled Post Bags Cause Injury To Post Van Driver
Slipping Accident Compensation Awarded To Nursing Auxiliary
A nursing auxiliary asked for our compensation claims advice on bringing a personal injury claim against her employers. She had slipped and fallen on water, which had been spilled on the ward where she worked. Although there was a 'clean-as-you-go' policy in place, the water had not been properly cleaned up.
More about Slipping Accident Compensation
Manual Handling Compensation For Serious Back Injury
During the investigation of this claim, it became apparent that no risk assessment had been carried out on this particular resident for 15 months prior to the accident at work. Immediately following the manual handling accident, a risk assessment was carried out on this patient, which identified that she should have been provided with an adjustable bed. This would have avoided the need for carers to bend low to attend to her, given her lack of mobility. It would also have allowed the bed to be adjusted to suit the height of any carer assigned to her.
More about Manual Handling Compensation For Serious Back Injury
Ambulance Driver Injured In Manual Handling Accident At Work
Our client had managed to push the wheelchair towards the ramp, on flat ground. However, as he pushed it up the ramp, and gave a final push to get over the top lip of the ramp, he felt a sharp pain in his lower back. Although in some pain, he managed to complete his shift, avoiding any duties that required lifting or handling.
More about Ambulance Driver Injured In Manual Handling Accident
Compensation For Injuries At Work Resulting From Breaches of Regulations
A personal injury compensation claim for an injury at work has been won against the Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. Our client worked in an administration department where she was required to retrieve stationery from pigeonholes situated high on a wall, above a desk. The workplace accident occurred whilst our client, who at only 4 feet 8 inches tall had particular difficulty, was climbing down from the desk to the footstool. She lost her footing and fell heavily on to the floor.
More about Compensation For Breaches Of Regulations
Compensation For Librarian Injured at Work - No Manual Handling Training Provided
Manual handling training is all too often overlooked or withheld from employees. Whether they regularly need to lift heavy objects, or only occasionally, it is vital that when the situation requires it, they have received the correct manual handling training to allow them to do so without suffering a work related injury. Our client was a librarian and asked for our help in bringing an injury at work compensation claim against her employer.
More about Compensation For Librarian Injured at Work.
Slipping Accident In Kitchen Results in Injury At Work Compensation
Our client asked for our slips trips and falls compensation claim advice when she suffered a slip, trip and fall injury in the kitchen where she worked. Due to the layout of the kitchen, where she was standing behind a bank of equipment, she was unaware of the spillage until she slipped on the greasy floor.
More about Slipping Accident In Kitchen Results in Injury At Work Compensation.
Client receives compensation after injury at work causes damage to her wrist
Our client asked for our help in bringing an injury at work compensation claim after she suffered a work injury when a heavy wooden door released itself unexpectedly and closed heavily on her wrist, trapping it between the door and a trolley. We provided injury at work compensation claim advice and although our client was unable to confirm she had securely inserted the hook into the eye, our specialist personal injury lawyers felt there was a case to answer.
More about Compensation after injury at work causes damage to her wrist.
Compensation Awarded to HGV Driver For Personal Injuries When High Winds Turned Over His Lorry
Our client asked our specialist personal injury lawyers for compensation claim advice following a road accident during the course of his work. He was an HGV qualified driver and had many years experience in driving large vehicles and heavy loads.
More about Compensation Awarded to HGV Driver For Personal Injuries.
Injury at Work Compensation for Welder Injured by Negligent Colleague
An experienced welder with over 30 years experience with his employer, our client asked for our help in bringing an injury at work compensation claim, after he sustained a burn injury at work. His duties required him to repair vehicles used in moving heavy items around the site. On the day his accident at work took place, he and his colleagues were under considerable pressure to repair one vehicle, as several others were also out of commission, potentially shutting down an important area of operations.
More about Welder Injured by Negligent Colleague
Compensation Claim Successful For Injury At Work - Client Slipped On Water On The Toilet Floor
When our client undertook a routine visit to the toilet at her place of work, she suffered a serious personal injury when she slipped and fell on water left on the tiled floor by another employee. She asked for our personal injury compensation advice for this accident at work and subsequently asked us to represent her in bringing an injury at work compensation claim against her employer.
More about Client Slipped On Water On The Toilet Floor
Compensation Claim Advice for Employee Injured at Work Using Defective Trolley
Despite making repeated complaints to his health and safety representative, the last being only a week prior to his injury at work, our client found himself again having to use defective equipment during the course of his work.
More about Employee Injured at Work Using Defective Trolley
Compensation Awarded to Gardener Injured at Work Because of Inadequate Inspections
Our client asked for our advice on whether he had a valid injury at work compensation claim after he sustained an injury whilst working as a gardener for his local council. He had worked for them for many years and was, at the time of his injury at work, engaged in grass cutting.
More about Compensation Awarded to Gardener Injured at Work
Injury At Work, Successful Compensation Claim for Carer Injured by Service User
A home carer, our client was used to dealing with elderly and disabled users. At the time she received this work injury, our client was working with a colleague to get an elderly person, who also suffered from Alzheimer’s, ready for bed. As they were preparing her in the bathroom, our client was caught unawares when the user lost her balance and fell on top of her.
More about Injury At Work, Successful Compensation Claim
Injury at Work Compensation Claim
A sheet metal worker lost the top of his finger in an injury at work, when a piece of drill swarf penetrated his gloved hand. An experienced worker, he was attempting to drill a hole in the sheet of metal, and following what he believed to be the correct best practice procedures operating at that time at his place of work.
More about Injury at work compensation claim
Breach of the Occupiers Liability Act results in Injury at Work Compensation Claim
Under the Occupiers Liability Act 1984, an individual has a duty of care to protect visitors to their premises from accident or injury. In this case, the premises were the defendant’s home. Having suffered a stroke at his home, the occupier was being carried down the stairs by our client, a paramedic, and a colleague from the ambulance service, with the aim of transporting him to hospital.
More about Injury at work compensation claim for Ambulance Man
Telephone cable hazard causes trip and fall accident, compensation awarded for work injury
Aware that the over-long cable on his telephone posed a hazard, our client had always ensured that the telephone was positioned away from any access routes into his office. His work took him out and about for much of his day, so when visiting colleagues needed somewhere to station themselves, it was natural that his office would be used in this way.
More about Telephone cable hazard causes work injury
Successful claim for compensation for client injured by scalding water
On the day that our client suffered her injury at work, she was taking a can of beans from the top shelf of an oven. The can had been placed there by a colleague and was covered with cling film. Because the beans were steaming, water had gathered on top of the cling film, so that when she pulled the can down at an angle, scalding water ran down and caused a burn injury.
More about Successful claim for client injured by scalding water
Accident at work compensation claim for slipping on wet floor in school dining room is successful
During the lunchtime rush at the school where she worked as a dinner nanny, between 270 and 300 children needed to be fed within a very short time. When an accidental spillage occurred during this busy time, it should have been cleaned up as quickly as possible to avoid an accident at work if someone slipped in the wet area.
More about Compensation for slipping on wet dining room floor
Compensation awarded to care worker injured whilst operating a hoist alone
Our client was aware that the normal use of a hoist, to help move a heavy patient, was a two-person operation. However, on the day of the injury at work, when the patient became distressed at being left suspended, she decided to try to continue by herself to speed his return to bed.
More about Compensation awarded to care worker
Textile worker from Tiverton suffers burn injury after falling through a hole in the floor
John Heathcoat and Co Limited are to pay a textile worker £1600 in compensation after he suffered an accident at work.
Mr Redfern from Tiverton in Devon was injured at work in May 2005. He was working in the dyeing and finishing department for his employer and began to make his way to the tea bar for his break.
More about
Textile worker from Tiverton suffers burn injury
Compensation for MOD worker injured at work because of poor maintenance
When our client injured his knee trying to close a heavy metal door, he asked our personal injury lawyers, who specialise in injuries at work, to represent him in his claim for accident at work compensation.
More about Compensation for MOD worker
Successful case brought for breach of PUWER regulations when a train driver was injured at work by flying glass particles
The cabin of a train is sealed whilst moving, so when our client was injured by an object (later found to be glass particles) flying into his eye, he assumed it had come through the air conditioning system. The Judge ruled a breach of PUWER 1998 (Regulations 5 and 12) had taken place.
More about Successful case brought for breach of PUWER regulations
Accident at Work Compensation awarded after failure of PPE boots caused injury to LU railway worker
When our client was issued with safety work boots, which he was required to wear as PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) whilst he was working on the railway lines, he naturally assumed that if they were safe to wear as PPE, they were safe to wear throughout his working day. As his employer was London Underground, this naturally involved an element of walking up and down stairs at various times and locations. On one occasion, he fell down the stairs, causing him injury. On inspection, his boots had torn at the heel, causing the accident at work and his injury.
More about Compensation awarded after failure of PPE boots
Rolls Royce engineer receives compensation after accepted working practices contravene written instructions and risk assessments
Normally the presence of training, risk assessments and written instructions would indicate a company that tries to minimise the risk of accidents at work, provide a safe working environment for its staff, and takes its liabilities for their safety very seriously. However, when accepted working practices are very different to any written instructions, then the safety of employees is at risk once more.
More about Rolls Royce engineer receives compensation
Compensation for driver with thumb crushed by train door
A train driver had his right thumb crushed as he tried to close a train door. He had twice tried to close it with his left hand but it bounced back. He then tried to close it with both hands as his right hand had more strength. In doing so his right thumb was crushed as it overhung the side of the door on the doorframe.
More about Compensation for driver with thumb crushed by train door
Work Equipment Compensation Victory
The claimant was employed by the council as a driver. The claimant was required to collect elderly and disabled clients and then transport them to a day care centre.
The claimant's accident occurred whilst she was at the house of a disabled client that required the use of a wheelchair.
More about
Work Equipment Compensation Victory
Manual Handling Accident
The client was a supervisor working on a railway line and was involved in an accident at work. Throughout the course of his shift the client was required to lift a set of two cylinders and a trolley by hand from track level to the platform.
When doing this the client strained his back as the equipment that he was lifting weighed approximately 150 kilograms.
More about Manual Handling Accident
Insufficient Training Leads to Accident at Work
A fire fighter was injured whilst trying to rescue a member of the public from a trapped car. The client had been asked to assist another fire fighting service with the rescue attempt and in order to free the trapped person the use of a ram was required.
More about Insufficient Training Leads to Accident at Work
Hazards In The Workplace
The claimant was injured in an accident at work when she tripped over some scales that were fixed into the floor of the factory where she worked. The claim was fought using The Workplace Regulations.
More about Hazards In The Workplace
Work Equipment Compensation Claim
A council worker sustained a knee injury whilst helping his foreman unload traffic lights from a trailer. The trailer was not sufficiently stabilised and it was decided that there was a breach of the Provision and use of Work Equipment Regulations by the claimant's employer.
More about Work Equipment Compensation Claim
Manual Handling At Work
The claimant was injured whilst moving rubbish bags from the top of one vehicle to another, the vehicle in question was approximately eight feet high and the client had to stretch in order to reach and remove the bags and place them in the other vehicle.
More about Manual Handling At Work
Safe Work Equipment The Key To Preventing Accidents At Work
A pest control officer for the local council was injured after he was assigned to a local school to remove some bait boxes that had been positioned on a previous visit. One of these boxes had been placed under a table and as he went to reach it he cut his hand on a sharp object on the underside of the table.
More about Safe Work Equipment The Key To Preventing Accidents At Work
How To Sue The Right Company When Work Equipment Breaks And Injures You
Our client was injured when repairing a truck owned by another company. The steps and grab handle fitted to the chassis broke as he climbed down from the truck causing him injury.
More about How To Sue The Right Company When Work Equipment Breaks And Injures You
Accidents At Work Involving Gloves
The claimant in this case was injured at work lifting a fish tank which had been fly-tipped. He loaded the fish tank onto his van. Its positioning meant that the tail lift could not be closed so the claimant pushed the fish tank forward with the palms of his hands. A glass panel broke, causing him injury.
More about Accidents At Work Involving Gloves
International Workers Memorial Day
Friday 28th April is International Workers Memorial Day - an opportunity for us all to think about the millions of people around the world each year that are killed at work as a result of accidents in the workplace.
More about International Workers Memorial Day
Accidents At Work Lead To Claims For Compensation
A pavier in Gateshead was instructed to form a concrete driveway by his Council employer. He prepared the driveway and filled it in with concrete and then had to kneel on the concrete using a float to flatten it. The client sustained chemical burns to both knees.
More about Accidents At Work Lead To Claims For Compensation
Compensation For Accident At Work
The claimant was a staff nurse at a Hospital near Liverpool and was working in a ward in the secure area of the hospital when he received an urgent instruction to attend to a disturbance on another ward nearby. As he was running into the ward he slipped on duck excrement on the block paved pathway which led up to the entrance door of the ward.
More about Compensation For Accident At Work
Injured Making TV Programme
Our client was a location manager on a programme directed by David Jason and the programme had scenes in the Lake District. A decision was taken to film, even though there were exceptionally high winds in the area. Whilst filming the claimant was blown from the road and landed in a rocky beck / gully to the side, causing injuries including a broken knee cap and elbow.
More about Injured Making TV Programme
Injured At Work By Falling Object From A Height
The claimant worked as a cook supervisor at a school. She was in a store room, standing on a ladder lifting boxes onto the top shelf of some racking when a fluorescent strip-light cover fell off and hit her on the head and shoulder.
More about Injured At Work By Falling Object From A Height
Youth Centre Worker From County Durham Is Awarded £33,750 Personal Injury Compensation For Accident At Work
The client injured his back in March 2002 whilst he was trying to move a deflated bouncy castle from a gymnasium into a storeroom. He was working alone and had lifted one side of the rolled-up bouncy castle onto a trolley, when he attempted to lift the other side and injured his lower back in the process.
More about Youth Centre Worker From County Durham Is Awarded £33,750 Personal Injury Compensation For Accident At Work
[ Back To Top ]
Injury at work - useful website links
[ Back To Top ]
Compensation claim for injuries at work
Have you or a member of your family suffered a personal injury at work through no fault of your own. If so contact Clear Answers accident at work solicitors on 0800 783 9019 and speak to one of our accident advice solicitors or alternatively fill out an online compensation claim form.
One of our representatives will contact you as soon as possible to discuss whether you have a valid personal injury compensation claim.
[ Back To Top ]
