Accident At Work Claim

Linnitts Solicitors has a department that specialises in accident at work compensation claims. We have experienced qualified specialist personal injury lawyers who handle significant compensation claims in almost every type of workplace. If you suffer an accident at work, you may be able to make a personal injury claim for compensation.

Accident At Work claims we have handled successfully include accidents involving:

•  Defective machinery or dangerous machinery

•  Slips or trips on debris or dangerous surfaces

•  Injuries involving lifting or manual handling

•  Injuries suffered in the construction industry

•  Exposure to harmful and dangerous substances

•  Employees exposed to violent attacks by patients or customers

According to The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) individual employees lose around five hundred and fifty million pounds a year in reduced income and expenditure as a result of accidents at work.

Victims and their families suffer in the form of pain, grief and loss of amenity.

Your employer has to try to ensure that you carry out your work in the safest way possible but must take into account the type of job you do, the equipment that you work with as well as the materials you use and the tasks involved. Employers must ensure that the place, or places, where you work and their premises in general are safe for their staff. For example if office floors were left wet or cluttered with cables or files on which employees slipped or tripped up then the employer has breached their duty of care owed to their employee. Employers are also responsible for the heating and ventilation of their premises, the lighting and even the car park.

Linnitts Solicitors provide complete accident at work compensation claims advice, information on employment-related issues and benefit advice where appropriate.