Factory accidents are sadly, far too common. The average factory is often for of plenty of dangerous machinery – and there can be opportunities for serious injury, especially if any employer doesn’t take their health and safety responsibilities seriously.
In fact, the manufacturing sector alone suffered 17,500 injuries that were considered serious enough to report to the and Safety Executive, and tragically 31, of those factory accidents proved fatal.
However, if you have been injured in a factory accident, and if your employer failed to take sufficient precautions to protect you from injury, you could be entitled to make a factory accident compensation claim.
Your Factory Accident – what was the cause?
Determining the cause of your factory accident can be critical in establishing whether or not you can claim compensation. For instance if you fell on stairs made slippery by leaking refrigeration coolant running down them, which you couldn’t see because of the inadequate lighting in the stair well, it would be almost impossible to demonstrate that your actions in any way caused or contributed to your accident – and you would properly have good grounds for a successful factory accident compensation claim.
Following that hypothetical example; having established that you didn’t cause your own accident, you will need to show that it was your employer who was to blame for the accident.
Every employer has a legal duty to make sure that you are safe at work and that your working environment is safe to work in. In the case of the causes of your accident; the leaking coolant and the dangerously dark stair well, several steps might not have been taken by your employer that would have controlled the risks presented and made your workplace safe:
• The refrigeration unit wasn’t regularly serviced/replaced.
• Information that the unit was leaking wasn’t acted on in a timely way.
• The leaking fluid wasn’t cleaned up within a reasonable period or warning signs displayed.
• Information that the stair well was dangerous to use due to the inadequate lighting wasn’t acted on.
Your Factory Accident – what you need to prove
Failure to take the steps above would have effectively’ cooked your employer’s goose’ as we have now demonstrated the three critical facts that would allow you to claim compensation for your factory accident – namely:
1) That you weren’t to blame for your accident.
2) That your employer had a legal duty of care towards you at work.
3) That you employer was negligent in his duty of care and that your accident was a reasonably foreseeable consequence of that negligence and caused or contributed to you having that accident.
Collecting all the necessary evidence to establish a claim is often not as straightforward as our example would lead you to believe. Once the trauma of the accident and initial medical treatment is over, many factory accident victims turn to our specialist work accident solicitors to make sure that the process of establishing and bringing a claim for compensation is undertaken efficiently and effectively.
Only in circumstances where you, as the employee, had breached your health and safety duties to work as trained and instructed to, report hazardous situations as encountered and work in way that doesn’t endanger you or anyone else, might you have difficulty in establishing a claim. However, even in these circumstances an experienced work accident solicitor would be able to offer you definitive advice.
Factory Accident Compensation Claims – no win no fee available
Our experts can deal with your factory accident claim under a no win no fee agreement – and we can also run your case using legal expenses insurance, if it covers your claim.
Contact us for Factory Accident Compensation Claims advice
Factory accidents can have a catastrophic effect on your health, lifestyle and family. To win the compensation you deserve, you need the right advice from experienced personal injury solicitors.
Our specialist compensation claim solicitors have the experience that any factory accident compensation claim requires and can provide you with the advice you need on how to claim compensation.
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