Making An Accident Claim Following Your Workplace Injury
Following car accidents or slips and trips on local council maintained property, making an accident claim is very often the logical course of action to compensate victims for their injuries and any loss. However, it is also possible to make a work accident claim in the event of being injured in a work accident that wasn’t your fault.
The notion of making a work accident claim isn’t as familiar to everyone as other types of claims and many people feel afraid to make one, worrying about the repercussions of claiming against an employer. There is no need to worry though, if an employer has failed in their duty to protect their employees from injury and an accident claim is made then they cannot legally sack the employee without reason. What’s more any compensation money comes from the insurance that the employer has, so the claim poses no threat to the company or the security of the jobs of other employees. Victims shouldn’t feel bad about making their accident claim: the point of compensation is to relieve the financial burden of taking long amounts of time off work to recover from injury.
Work accidents can take a variety of forms. Injuries sustained in offices, factories, warehouses, building sites, restaurants, shops or even on farms can all come under this umbrella term. Should driving play a part in a victim’s job then an accident which happens in a car, van, forklift or lorry may count too.
In an ideal world, employers would all comply perfectly with strict health and safety laws so that their employees could be protected from any risk of injury. Sadly though, accidents do happen. Some typical examples are accidents in fork lift trucks or on ladders and scaffolding.
Anybody who is unsure about whether they have a case for their workplace injury should consult an accident claim solicitor. If you have a case it is important to be aware that victims must start their compensation claim within three years of the accident happening. That is, unless the victim is a minor, in which case they have three years from the date they turn eighteen to make a claim. Industrial disease has different timescale limitation rules to workplace accidents.
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