Claim Compensation For A Neck Injury At Work

The benefits of claiming neck injury compensation

Employees who suffer neck injuries at work often contact us when they are in a considerable amount of pain, unable to move freely and sleep comfortably, or work and earn their regular salary. Recovering from neck injuries can take many months. Sadly, some people may never feel like they have fully recovered and their injury is always present whenever they attempt any physical task.

If you have injured your neck as a result of your working life or in an accident at work, claiming personal injury compensation can help ease some of the problems you face.

As all claims are made on a No Win No Fee basis, you will never be charged if your claim does not succeed. A successful claim will lead to a compensation settlement being made to you, with the value of the claim including any lost income and incurred costs as well as a settlement value for the injuries you have suffered and medical treatment that you have required.

As well as a financial settlement to cover your neck injury, claiming compensation can also help you in other ways.

Making a claim is your legal right, and fairly compensates you for injuries that were not your fault.
It can include private medical treatment and rehabilitation therapies to speed your recovery.
It can make up for lost income now and in the future.
You can also claim out of pocket expenses and other losses.

Specialist rehabilitation therapies

Once your claim is active and your solicitor has obtained an admission of liability from the insurers that provide your employer with their employer liability insurance, your claim will succeed. At this point, your solicitor can look to help you to recover more quickly by obtaining specialist rehabilitation therapy if it is deemed relevant and needed. In the case of a neck injury, such rehabilitation therapy would most likely involve osteopathic/chiropractic or massage therapies. Any such physiotherapy or private specialist treatments will be provided at the expense of the third party dealing with your claim.

In the more severe claims, neck injuries can include bone fractures, paralysis and even psychological trauma. Depending on the specifics of your injury, your solicitor may be able to look to obtain further treatments – unavailable in usual circumstances – to help you recover more quickly from your injuries than you otherwise may do. Further information on this will be available from your solicitor once your claim has been started.

When can you make a work neck injury claim?

Employers are legally obliged to provide a safe and secure environment for workers and visitors to any work site. Claims will succeed if it can be shown that the employer has been negligent and exposed them to the risk of injury. A lack of training, a failure to provide the correct equipment and failing to provide a safe working environment are all forms of employer negligence.

Whilst neck injury claims are usually associated with jobs that include repeated lifting, such as in warehouses, factories, construction sites and shops, they can happen in any workplace. Even jobs that most people would see as very safe, like an office job, can see employees suffer nasty neck injuries.

Many claims relate to soft tissue injuries to the muscles and ligaments of the upper spine, shoulders and neck. They are commonly caused through strain related incidents, such as dangerous carrying techniques and workers being asked to lift items exceeding a safe weight limit.

Common scenarios leading to compensation include:

Employers failing to provide manual handling guidance or training
Not advising staff of the risks of lifting incorrectly
Forcing people to lift weights heavier than they should
Refusing or failing to provide lifting equipment
A working environment that prevents people from working and lifting safely

Employers must ensure that the staff member is correctly trained and provided with the right know how and tools to work safely, further, the employer is responsible for the maintenance and safety of any equipment provided to employees to use during the performance of their duties.

Regardless of the kind of workplace, employers must by law ensure:

That staff are adequately trained in how to lift items safely.
That staff know how to identify items that will require 2 persons or lifting equipment to move.
That any equipment provided to staff to enable them to lift heavier items is regularly maintained and repaired.
That any equipment found to be faulty or dangerous is removed from use and only returned to active service once repaired fully.

Manual handling claims are among the most frequent we deal with. Employers that fail to ensure full training, guidance and a safe ‘lifting and moving’ policy will be liable if staff are injured as a result of lifting or moving items at work.

Any person injured in this way at work is entitled to make a claim for personal injury compensation. If you believe that the cause of your neck injury was because of the negligence of an employer or other organisation who failed to provide training or the correct equipment, you should contact Direct2Compensation today to start your claim.

Compensation amounts for neck injuries

The following is a guide to compensation amounts for neck injuries based on their severity. These amounts are for the injury itself, but you can also claim for special damages, which can include your expenses and rehabilitation therapies, for example. Once your specialist solicitor has obtained your medical report they will be able to give you an idea of how much compensation to expect.

Severity	Compensation Amount
Severe	£43k - £140k
Moderate	£7k - £36k
Minor	£2k - £7k

How Direct2Compensation can help with your claim

As with all accidents, if you have injured your neck at work or anywhere else, it is important to make sure that the details of your accident have been recorded properly within an accident book or elsewhere, and that medical attention is sought for any injuries that you have sustained. If you haven’t done this already, we can help you to do so.

Direct2Compensation are experts in managing compensation claims. Over the years we have successfully assisted many neck injury claimants and have helped them to find the right specialist injury compensation solicitor. We know your rights and can help you to understand whether you are likely to be able to successfully hold your employer liable for your injuries.

Direct2Compensation work with some of the best accident at work solicitors in the UK. With our easy to understand claims process and ability to handle your claim quickly, simply and transparently, there are many reasons that make us the right choice when it comes to starting your compensation claim.

To start your claim today, or even to find out a little bit more about the claims process and how we can help, call us on 01225 430285 or if you prefer, .

Comments & Questions

Read on for questions and advice about claiming, plus work neck injury claim examples...

I was working for an agency and approximately three weeks in to the employment, I hit my head on the tail board of an HGV. I was wearing my PPE (Hi-Viz and helmet – which came flying off) and initially although I felt some pain, I thought nothing of it. However, a few days later I had pain in my shoulder, my arm was numb and I had tingling in my hand. It worsened to the point that I visited my GP and was sent for an MRI scan which showed three damaged discs in my neck. I have been off work now for ten weeks awaiting to see a Surgeon. I haven’t received ssp and they have sent me my p45 via e-mail.

I am now in financial difficulty as I have had no money for this period. Many thanks.

The situation you describe, particularly the loss of income is one of the most common motivating factors that lead to people making a claim for accident at work compensation.

In your situation, you could seek to make a claim for compensation against the employer for the injuries you have sustained as a result of the tail lift hitting your head. However, you would only succeed with a claim against the employer if it can be shown that the tail lift hit you because of employer negligence or a breach of health and safety within the workplace.

Clearly, you have had a nasty injury and been left with a financial problem. As such, it would be very wise to speak with us so that we can find out a little more about what happened so that we can advise you as to whether or not the accident in which you were injured would lead to a valid claim for accident at work compensation.

Please contact us on 01225430285 for advice and assistance.

Can you see if I can claim from an accident from when I was younger? I have a big scar across my neck from where the seatbelt cut my neck during the accident. If you could get back to me that would be great.
Many thanks.

Whether or not you can make a claim for the injuries you sustained in an accident when you were younger will depend on your age now and how long ago the accident was.

The law allows a strict 3-year claim limitation period from the date of an accident in which they can make a claim for compensation. For children (persons under the age of 18 years when they are injured) they are allowed a longer claim period which does not expire until their 21st birthday.

Therefore, if your accident happened over 3 years ago and you are over 21 years of age, you will not be able to make a claim. Also, if you have successfully claimed previously you would not be able to seek to reopen this claim.

If you would like to speak further about this, please call us on 01225430285.

I went to get a number for a co worker when I went to sit down my chair slipped from underneath me caused me to fall hit my left side forearm and middle part of my neck. I told my supervisor she did nothing, didn’t even ask if I was ok. I took some ibuprofen my forearm is bruised my neck is still sore. The weekend has gone by I had to lay on a bed all weekend with a sore neck, went back to work today she didn’t even ask how I was feeling. I need to go to the insta care for my neck.

If the chair slipped from beneath you because it was faulty or the floor surface was unsafe, you could seek to make a compensation claim against your employer on the grounds that your injuries were caused by negligence as the chair or floor was not fit for purpose or safe.

I have been doing the same job now for 24 years! Now I have problems with my neck due to bending over 300 times a day. I am now in the process of needing decompression surgery due to the wear and tear of my neck vertebrae. Am I in a position to make a claim against my employer for this?

You may be able to pursue a claim against this employer for repetitive strain injury compensation, but much will depend on the nature of your work, what training your employer has provided you with and importantly, when you began to notice pain from the injuries and sought medical treatment for the same. This last point is important as it will determine your strict claim limitation period that governs how long you have got to make a claim for compensation.

Neck Injury At Work? See If You Can Claim Compensation

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