Accident at Work

When you’re at work it is your employers’ responsibility to ensure that all health and safety is adhered too, so that no injuries are incurred. If you work in a factory all the machinery should be maintained and serviced for the same reason. However, unfortunately many people each year suffer quite bad injuries from faulty of poorly maintained machinery. Around one million employees suffer injury from accidents that could be largely avoidable. That is a terrible statistic but a true one.

The trouble with having an accident at work is that to obtain any compensation you have to sue your employer. Not many people are willing to do this as they believe they will get grief from employers and colleagues. Also the worry of losing your job is another reason why people don’t claim. Remember it is the duty of the employer to protect the employees against possible dangers at the workplace. If you don’t claim for an accident at your work place then the likelihood is that another accident will happen. Would you like that on your conscience? Imagine if the accident was fatal? If you were to put in a claim your employer would have to look at the health and safety issues and carry out risk assessments to ensure that any measures to improve safety is being used. This is what should be happening on a regular basis anyway. If these steps were carried out it is quite possible your accident could have been avoided.

If you have decided to claim compensation for you injuries you need to make sure there is a record of the accident at your work place. If there is an accident book it will need to be documented here. If your company doesn’t have an accident book you should write to your employer detailing the accident and keep a copy for your own records. If you are too unwell to do this, ask a colleague or family member to do this for you.

Suffering from injuries caused from an accident at work is bad enough but when you have to pay for the medical expenses just adds insult to injury. If you are not getting paid as you’re off work how will you cope when the rent or mortgage needs paying at the end of the month? Making a claim will make you life much easier. You will get reimbursed for any expenses and loss of earnings.

Making a claim will come at no cost to you. Lawyers work on ‘no win no fee’ agreements which means you don’t have to pay for the lawyers work, they will get paid only when they win the case. If they don’t win they don’t get paid. So you see a lawyer will only take on a case they believe they can win as lawyers certainly won’t work for nothing. A good accident claim lawyer will explain all of this to you and get you an idea of the outcome in your initial contact with them.

Claiming compensation has a bad reputation but it is there to give people justice. It is everyone legal and civil right to claim and it is why the “no win no fee” agreements were put into place. Before “no win no fee” agreements’ came into legislation you could only get financial help for personal injury claims if your were on a low income so as to qualify for legal aid. Why should those on a low income be allowed help but those just over the threshold not?

If you have had an accident at work in the last 3 years and are thinking of putting in a claim, then do so. You really are being silly if you don’t. Your employer doesn’t loose out as they have insurance to cover these types of incidents. If your employer cares about its staff they will totally understand and follow all the procedures to prevent another accident happen. If they don’t care about the health and safety of their staff, why are you even querying whether to sue or not? Do it today, get what is legally and rightly yours – compensation for an accident that was not your fault.