Injured in a fall at work? See if you can claim compensation and how much

Please contact us so that we can further investigate this matter and assist you with a claim on behalf of your late Son.

Employers do have a duty of care to ensure that all staff working at height are given the appropriate safety training and that the right personal protective equipment and other safety measures are provided and enforced.

In this case, as there has been a fatality, the incident should have been subject to a Health and Safety Executive investigation and reported to RIDDOR. If their reports show any element of employer failure, the next of kin of the deceased can pursue a claim on behalf of the estate of the deceased.

It’s vitally important that you try to ensure that an accident book entry is now made. Although people laughed at the time because they hadn’t realised the severity of your injury, they should now allow a record to be made given that Management witnessed the incident. The best course of action would be to email your employer outlining what happened in your words. You should state what caused you to trip (toys on the floor) and what injury you have sustained, listing the date and approximate time of the fall.

We would be very happy to speak further with you regarding this injury at work as it would seem that you have grounds to pursue a claim for compensation. Please call us on 01225430285 or contact us via our website for further help.

In terms of your return to work, you should follow doctors orders. If your job is something that you can do with limited mobility/using crutches, you should return when you feel able to do so. If however, the injury requires you to be fully mobile, you will clearly have to wait until any cast or support boot is no longer required before you are able to go back to your duties. If you lose pay through any period of absence from work, we can help you to recover any lost income by making a claim for compensation for you.

How did this happen? Did you trip on some disrepair or unsafe pavement surface? If so, please email photographs of the accident site to us at justice@direct2compensation.co.uk and we can then review this for you.

We feel that you have valid grounds to make a claim for personal injury compensation. Employers have a duty of care to ensure a safe working environment and if they have allowed rooms to become unduly cluttered, we can argue that the employer has have been negligent. Of course, your claim will be strengthened if there is any evidence of people having complained about the clutter, but in any event, we feel that you should make a claim.

The initial accident you mention some 3-4 years ago is now out side of the 3 year claim period, so you cannot take action for that incident or injury. However, the more recent injury to your knee that has caused you a prolonged period of absence from work may well be something which we can assist with. Please explain how you were injured at work recently and we can then advise you about a potential claim for personal injury compensation.

I was putting Air in the trailer tyres and stood up!! due to the previous injury which is an ongoing issue my knee just gave way simple as that

Your injury is clearly unfortunate and may well be linked to your previous accident. Unfortunately however, it is unlikely that you would be able to establish employer negligence on the 2nd incident and that establishing a causal link would be prohibitively risky for a Solicitor to be able to act on a No Win No Fee basis.

It would appear that your employer has allowed a hazard (in this case the wooden pallet) to obstruct a walkway and that they are therefore liable for your injury.

You have a right to pursue a claim for personal injury compensation as a result and should be able to recover medical expenses if successful.

Attempting to pursue a claim against an individual property owner is not straightforward as it is unknown whether the property owner would have insurance or the financial might to be able to compensate you if you succeeded with a claim. As such, Solicitors are often reluctant to go against an individual whereas they have no qualms when pursuing action against an organisation or insurers as they can be certain that should they succeed, funds will be available to compensate their client and to finance the costs of the legal process.

In your case, although you were injured in a customers property, you may be able to make a claim against your employer if it can be shown that they had failed to take all reasonable precautions to prevent you from falling. With this in mind, we first need to know what caused you to fall and whether there are any questions to ask regarding adequate training from your employer or their provision of suitable and correct work equipment or even whether the employer risk assessed the work in question correctly. If you feel that there are potential questions to ask of your employer and their approach to your health and safety, we may well be able to assist you.

Your employer has no reason to doubt you, but if you want to provide evidence of the injury to your knee, you should ask your GP to sign you off and then provide the sick note (which should confirm the reason for your absence from work being a knee fracture) and hand this to the employer.

In terms of the injury itself, you can pursue a claim for personal injury compensation as the cause of your accident (tripping on a power cable that was laying across the entrance to an area you needed to access to work) can be seen as an act of negligence.

Thanks for the reply Ian.
I took your advice, and provided a sick note confirming the injury.
I am not entitled to sick pay, as I am a casual contractor.
My employer informed me that he, and the owner of the company, plan to contest my claim.
Is there much point? I doubt anyone wants to give a witness statement, in this instance, as I sense the workforce feel somewhat intimidated by the boss, which i do understand.
Is there much hope of a successful claim here?

The employer and their insurers may wish to contest a claim if you make one – as is the employers right. Whether or not their defence of a claim would hold weight will depend on what evidence there is available to support your claim. Was an accident book filled in at the time of the fall? Is there anything in writing anywhere (emails, text messages, accident book) that mentions tripping over a power cable? If so, you have every chance of succeeding.

Importantly however, you can pursue a claim on a No Win No Fee basis so if the claim were to fail, whilst you would be disappointed, you would not face any financial liability for the costs of the claims process.

You were injured through no fault of your own and due to the negligence of the forklift driver. As such, you can make a claim for personal injury compensation and loss of income and we can help you with this on a No Win No Fee basis. Making a claim in these circumstances has no impact on your right to continue with your job when you are fit to do so and you cannot face any discrimination or negative consequences from your employer for making a legitimate claim.

Although you’ve no fracture, the severity of your injury certainly meets the required criteria to enable you to make a claim. Further, the fact that you slipped on a wet floor at work and there was no hazard warning in situ indicates that you have a good chance of succeeding with a claim for personal injury compensation. If you have not already done so, please ensure that there is a record of your accident within the employers accident book (or similar recording system).

Our Solicitors can help you to make a claim on a No Win No Fee basis if you call us on 01225430285.

If more than 3 years has passed since your accident, you will be unable to pursue a claim as you have not done so within the 3 year time limit.

Make sure that the incident is recorded properly with the employer – in an accident book or in some other written record. You may well have a valid claim for personal injury compensation and we can look at whether the appropriate training was provided or whether the employer hadn’t provided the correct equipment to enable you to work safely.

Your employer is not obliged to pay your salary – despite the fact that you are off work through an injury caused by negligence at work – unless your contract includes a clause that affords you sick pay. As such, your only way to recover any lost pay or costs that you incur through your injury and not being able to work is by pursuing a claim for personal injury compensation.

In your case, it would seem that you have a strong claim due to the lack of hazard signage and this is likely to be seen as negligence. Your claim is certainly a matter that we would very much like to help you with. Please call us on 01225430285 or provide more details via the ‘start your claim‘ page of our website and we’ll have your claim placed with one of our specialist Personal Injury Solicitors to act for you on a No Win No Fee basis.

The stack of brochures may well be seen as a hazard obstructing a walkway and this should allow you to pursue a claim against the employer for negligence and for the concussion and distress caused to you.

The only way to compel your employers to pay for your medical costs is to pursue a claim for personal injury compensation against them. If successful with your claim, you can recover compensation for your injuries, medical costs and associated losses including loss of income.

We can help you with your claim and look forward to doing so. We’ll email you directly, but you can always call us on 01225430285 or if you can access further help on the ‘start your claim for compensation‘ page of our website.

We would be very happy to help you pursue your claim for compensation for the pain and discomfort of your broken arm and to recover any lost income or other costs caused by your accident at work.

The lack of signage, no lighting and no barrier around the hatch is likely to be seen as employer negligence and this should enable our Solicitors to succeed with your claim.

We feel that you have a valid claim for your pelvis injury and that this is a matter that warrants pursuit. You have sustained serious injuries and by succeeding with a claim, you can recover compensation for the injuries sustained and recover any lost income or other costs incurred.

We would absolutely like to help you further with this potential claim. Please visit the start your claim page of our website to provide further information and we’ll be in touch to discuss a potential claim for compensation – both for the injury and to recover any lost income or incurred expenses caused by the accident at work.

Whilst on the one hand, the fact that you are receiving 80% pay is a good thing, the fact that you are losing out on 20% of salary or losing your holiday allowance (not to mention the nasty injury to your ankle) is clearly not good.

Whether or not you receive some or all of your pay, it would appear that you have a valid and justified claim to be made against the employers insurance cover as the cause of your accident could have been avoided if different choices were made by the employer. Not only have they allowed a smooth surface to be present on the stairs where spillages occur, there appears to be no warning sign in situ to give you prior notice of the risk of slipping.

We would be very happy to help you further.

We can help you to make a claim for personal injury compensation for the injury to your knee and also to recover any loss of pay caused by the injury or costs that you incur as a result.

In terms of the potential value of your claim, it is impossible to say at this stage due to the fact that we don’t know the extent of the injury or whether you will make a speedy recovery or suffer ongoing longer term problems.

You can make a claim for personal injury compensation against your employers insurance. As you have slipped on a hazardous substance on the floor at work that was not marked with a hazard warning sign, you have a right to seek compensation for the pain and distress caused by your injuries and to recover any loss of income or incurred costs relating to the accident at work.

Have you tried claiming but it has failed due to a lack of evidence? Sadly, if you can’t be certain why you slipped, you would not succeed with a claim. Should the matter end in a court hearing, a judge would refuse to find against the employers insurance as there is simply no evidence to confirm that they were liable (such as a leak, spillage with no hazard sign or other item on the floor).

You are likely to be able to pursue a claim against the site management company on the basis of their negligence in not ensuring that the required health and safety protocols were followed on the site and you subsequently sustained injury on the site.

As a hazard sign was visible, it could be hard to succeed with a claim for slipping accident compensation. However, provision of a sign is not in and of itself something that would thwart any claim or remove the prospect of liability attaching to the employer. A hazard sign must be clearly visible at the site of the slip risk. If the hazard sign was not in the area where you fell, you could seek to make a claim.

If you would like to discuss this further with us, please call us on 01225430285.

If the flooring makes a step hard to see, there is an onus on the building owners/managers to make sure the step is marked – either with a sign or with some sort of hazard tape on the edge of the step. If you feel that this matches the nature of the floor and step where you fell, you may well succeed with a claim.

If you would like our help with a claim, please call us on 01225430285. It would be helpful to get photographs of the step – if possible – showing the similarity in floor colour on each side and the lack of hazard tape edging or signage.

Did your employer ever provide training on the issue of floor inspections and checking for slip risks? If the employer had no policy in place that required you to make regular floor checks and remove any such slip risks, you could succeed with a claim.

If your injury was caused because a faulty or disrepaired chair caused you to fall, you have every right to make a claim.

Please contact us so that we can help you make your claim for compensation. Rotator cuff injuries are known to be painful and long term injuries that cause considerable discomfort and impact on every day tasks. Our specialist Solicitors can assist you with such a claim.

Please call our team on 01225430285 so that we can take some further details and help you make claims for personal injury compensation. It would appear that the employer has been negligent and as such, you have a right to pursue personal injury compensation claims for the injuries you have sustained at work. It is also illegal to sack someone for the accident if it was not due to their misconduct.

You have a valid right to make a claim for compensation and we can assist you with this. As the employer is being awkward with regards to the accident book, we would recommend writing your own accident record and sending it to them via email with a formal request that it be added to their records.

The item you tripped over should not have been in situ and therefore, you are likely to succeed with your claim.

If you were caused to slip due to a wet floor and the employer had failed to erect any hazard warning signage to indicate that the area may be unduly slippery, you should pursue a claim for personal injury compensation.

In the UK, employers are required by law to ensure that the workplace is as safe as possible and that all risks to health, including slip risks are indicated so that employees can attempt to avoid serious injury. That obligation appears to have been breached in your workplace and as such, you can pursue a claim against the employer for negligence.

We feel that there is potential for a claim against the employers insurance to cover both the injuries (the pain and discomfort caused) and recover loss of income. Our specialist Solicitors will need to consider this matter in detail to confirm whether or not a claim can proceed.

Your employer is within their rights to ask you to perform light duties and it can be seen as helpful on their part to offer this as it will prevent you from losing income. Of course, if you are asked to perform any duties whilst you remain injured that would worsen your condition or cause further pain, you should refuse.

With regards to the cause of your injury, your employer has a duty of care to act on reports of a possible risk to health in the workplace. That requests have been made for a ladder during various meetings means that the employer was on notice of a potential risk to health. That does not mean that they should have provided a ladder, but it does mean that they should investigate whether a ladder is needed and would be suitable.

Whilst we don’t know whether a claim for the cause of your injury will succeed, our initial view is that you have every right to pursue a claim and have this investigated by a specialist personal injury Solicitor – such as those who represent our clients.

Yes, you can make a claim given the nature of the accident and the injuries you sustained in falling from height. Your employer should have ensured that you were given the appropriate training and support to do the job safely. Also, there is an argument that the employer failed to provide you with the correct safety equipment that may have prevented such a fall.

We would like to speak to you further and present a claim to our specialist Solicitors. Please call us on 01225430285 so that we can take this further for you.

You absolutely have a right to make a claim. The fact that the local authority representative – an independent expert – has made specific recommendations to alter the thresholds due to the risk that they pose indicates that you would be likely to succeed with your claim. You may be concerned about making a claim against your employer – most people are and don’t really wish to have to take such action. However, you needn’t be concerned about your colleagues, managers or even the business owner as your claim would be made against the obligatory insurance cover that employers must have. Our team would be only too happy to offer you help in getting your claim started. Please call us on 01225430285 so that we can explain the process to you and answer any queries you may have before passing your claim to one of our expert specialist Solicitors.

You have clearly suffered nasty injuries and have every right to make a knee injury claim. On success in your claim, you would be able to receive compensation for the pain and discomfort of the injuries, the value of which would be based on medical evidence and an experts report regarding a longer term prognosis. You would also be able to recover any loss of income, losses or incurred expenses caused by the accident and injuries you have sustained.

Under UK law, your Mother has a right to make a claim for compensation if she is the victim of a non-fault accident at work and has a right to make that claim without any risk to her rights to continue her employment and position already held – so long as she is acting honestly and giving truthful information.

In the case that you describe, your Mother would succeed with her claim if the employer is found to have been negligent in failing to ensure that the floor of the workplace was regularly cleaned and checked for slipping hazards.

If she would like to discuss making a claim or find out more about the process, understand her rights and see how we may be able to assist her, please ask her to call us on 01225430285.

You can certainly make a claim. Whether or not you have a valid claim will depend on what caused you to fall down the stairs. If there was a slipping hazard on the stairs – such as they were wet or there was a loose item on them with no hazard warning etc, you would likely have a strong claim. If there was a raised edge strip or a damaged section of flooring that caused you to trip, again a claim would be valid.

I assume that you have slipped on a wet floor at your place of work and that the wet floor in question was not marked with a hazard warning sign? If so, you have a valid reason to pursue a claim for compensation. The claim will allege that your employer failed in their obligation to minimise the risk of injury at work by failing to erect a hazard warning sign and that your injury would have been avoided if such a sign had been erected.

The employers insurers may of course, mount a robust defence of any claim but that should not deter you from pursuing a claim. As we work on a fully no win no fee basis, you need not be concerned about the costs of making a claim as you would pay no fees whatsoever should your claim fail

The cause of your accident should have been avoided given that the leak to the roof had previously been reported to the employer on numerous occasions. The reports of the leaking roof should have been acted upon prior to your accident. As such, liability is likely to attach to the employer should you pursue a claim for compensation.

Providing your injuries were of a sufficient severity you have a valid right to make a claim for compensation and we would be very happy to assist you in making your claim.

You certainly have the right to make a claim. It could be the case that you may have to accept some contributory negligence in that there may be an argument that you should perhaps of checked for the tripping hazard. However, that should not prevent you from attempting to make a claim.

It would appear that the ‘new’ injury is indeed a worsening of or exacerbation of the previously sustained injury. However, we would need to speak with you further to ask some questions about the use of the heavy lift assist equipment and training of use of the same to be able to advise you further on that issue.

You mention that you initially injured your back when tripping on damaged flooring in May. If you have not already pursued a claim for that, you should certainly consider doing so now as it would appear that you have a every chance of succeeding with such a claim if you were to do so. We would certainly like to help you with this.

How long had you worked for the employer? If you were working as an employee and acting on the instructions of a supervisor or hadn’t been trained properly, you could potentially pursue a claim for compensation in this matter.

You mention that the step has since been secured? We assume then, that the step was not secured before you fell and was therefore hazardous?

If our assumption is correct it would seem that you have a valid claim for compensation and we would like to discuss this with you further. You could well have a grounds for a successful claim in this scenario.

You have a valid claim for slipping accident compensation against your employer for the injury to your foot/ankle caused when you slipped on a wet floor that was not marked with a hazard warning sign. You mention that you went straight to Hospital regarding the injury which is good as there will be medical evidence available to support any claim if you were to make one. May I ask if the details of your slipping accident were recorded in an accident book at work?

If you would like to discuss the possibility of making a No Win No Fee claim for compensation, please call us on 01225430285 as we can explain your rights, explain what No Win No Fee means and ask you the right questions to find out whether or not you can pursue a claim. Alternatively, if you would prefer to liaise with us via our website and email, please use the ‘start a claim’ page of the site and we’ll provide assistance that way.

Although you were under pressure to work hard and were probably doing more work than you should, that in and of itself would not see you succeed with a claim for falling off a step. In this matter, you will need to demonstrate a fault or hazard with the step to succeed with a claim.

If you have not already done so, you should pursue a claim for compensation for the injuries you have sustained and the losses you have incurred as a result of your broken wrist.

We would be very happy to pursue your claim for you.

Your employer cannot simply pass judgement on negligence or liability and it would appear that they have failed in their obligations towards your health and safety whilst at work. Effectively, your employer is admitting that they failed to ensure that you could work as safely as possible as they have simply left you to do the work without guidance or training.

Given the severity of your injury as a result of your fall from a ladder at work, you really should consider pursuing a claim against the employer on the basis of their negligence. Whilst there can be no guarantee of success with the claim, there is certainly every reason to pursue this matter and it would appear that you have a valid claim with every prospect of succeeding. Our article on ladder accident claims may provide further info for you.

My initial view is that you certainly have a valid claim for compensation to me made against your employers insurance cover. We can pursue a claim for you and it does not impact on your rights to continue with your work. Just make sure that the details of your slipping accident and back injury is recorded in the accident book. We deal with quite a lot of slips at work and look forward to helping you.

You do have a right to make a claim for compensation if you are injured in an accident at work. Given that you have fallen from height, the safe working at height regulations and Health and Safety guidelines covering such work would be considered. Whilst it could be seen that you have contributed to your own injury by erecting a ladder on soft ground, the employer is likely to bear responsibility for the health and safety failings that lead to your ladder accident.

Hopefully an accident book entry or incident report form has been completed with the employer? If not, you should write to them to outline what happened and apportion responsibility to them for instructing you to work in risky conditions on unsafe ground.

We would be happy to assist you in trying to claim compensation for your injury and also to recover all lost income caused by the accident – this could include future loss of income if the injury prevents you from working for sometime and you succeed with the claim.

When you say you tripped over a barrier, what kind of barrier was it and what was it a barrier for? The fact that the barrier wasn’t secured to the ground indicates that it may not be an official barrier and could therefore be a tripping hazard? If so, you may have a valid claim.

We would need to see some photographic evidence of the barrier in question and the proximity of it to the doorway before we could advise you further.

As long as you make your claim within 3 years of the date of your accident, you have a legal right to pursue a claim for compensation. In the scenario you describe, you have a valid claim on the grounds of employer negligence being the cause of your accident at work and subsequent injuries.

Are you being represented by a specialist personal injury Solicitor? From your description of your accident and the cause of your fall, it would appear that there is no viable defence to be mounted by the school.

We would like to speak with you about this incident so that we can find out more.

The injury you have sustained after you fell at work is a serious one and you are likely to suffer with some permanent problems as a result. Therefore, if you could succeed with a claim for personal injury compensation, the settlement value that would be assigned to your claim would reflect this.

Whether or not you can make a claim will depend on what caused you to fall. We would very much like to know more about your accident and find out what happened in order that we can then advise you on the appropriate course of action.

Our view is that you have a valid claim for personal injury compensation against the employer for their failure to minimise the risk of injury on the polished sloping floor. Having spoken with you, we understand that a rubber mat has now been placed on this floor after further falls and as such, the risk of slipping has finally been addressed and dealt with. Therefore, there is a clear argument in your favour should any claim follow in that the employer failed to act on the risk of foreseeable injury presented by a slippery sloping floor surface and exposed you to the risk of injury.

My initial view is that you have a very strong claim for accident at work compensation. You have clearly highlighted a number of health and safety failings by your employer which should enable us to demonstrate clear employer negligence being the cause and as such, we would be confident of you succeeding with a claim.

Clearly, your employer is not particularly honourable given their attitude towards your legitimate health and safety concerns. With this in mind, it is worth considering how any claim against your employer will be received with regards to your ongoing work with them. Whilst no employer can dismiss you legally for simply making a claim, that doesn’t always guarantee that you would not face difficulties. However, given the severity of your injuries and the long term implications that they present, you should not let the employers attitude prevent you from making a claim. If you were to succeed, your settlement would take in to account the long term implications of your injuries and also cover possible future loss of income and the benefit of such an outcome would far outweigh staying with such a dangerous employer.

As you were injured in an accident at work, to be able to make a claim for compensation, you will need to be able to demonstrate that your employer has been negligent towards the management of your safety and in their obligations towards health and safety. Clearly, the work you were doing meant that you would be working in cold, icy and snowy conditions. As such, it was foreseeable that you would be at risk of slipping, especially when accessing your vehicle. This means the employer is duty bound to attempt to minimise the risks of slipping. As such, your employer should have provided or required appropriate footwear to be worn, ensured that the steps to the vehicle were safe and fit for purpose (grip surface?) and that you were adequately trained to access the vehicle as safely as possible in such conditions.

It would be sensible for our expert staff to talk with you about your accident at work as there may well be a claim you could pursue.

The original injury will be considered should you pursue a claim for compensation and it is likely that some of your injury will be seen as pre-existing or ‘wear and tear’. Of course, you therefore won’t be able to claim the full value for such injuries (if you succeed with your claim) as a defendant would rightly claim that they were not liable for the pre-existing element of any injury.

However, you can pursue a claim for the worsening or exacerbation of any pre-existing condition. With expert medical assessments a report can be provided that would detail the pre-existing condition and worsening, speeding up of or exacerbation of symptoms and a claim for this can then proceed.

Whether or not you can claim compensation after slipping on ice and snow will depend on the nature of the accident site, where it is located and what if any action the employers (in this case) could or should have done to minimise the risk of such an injury.

In your case, the lack of an accident book record could make claiming problematic but it doesn’t make it impossible.

If the step you slipped on was covered in oil or grease and therefore slippery, you would undoubtedly have a valid claim. Of course, if you simply slipped or are unable to say why you slipped it will be far harder for you to succeed with a claim. Any claimant must demonstrate negligence or a breach of health and safety to succeed with a claim against an employer and there is one area that you may be able to place such a liability – the failure of the employer to provide any training or induction in to the use of the vehicle.

The lack of induction and full attention to health and safety requirements could indicate that your employer is liable in this matter. Given that you were working at height, the risk of injury was clearly foreseeable and one would expect the highest possible attention to health and safety.

I would suggest that we speak further with you regarding your fall from height at work as my initial view is that you should pursue a claim for compensation in this matter.

Your partner can claim compensation for this accident and his employer can’t sack him for doing so. Your partner would entitled to a settlement for the pain and discomfort caused to them by the injury sustained and also to recover costs for private rehabilitation therapies or even surgery if needed and they would be able to recover any loss of income.

Regarding your partners employment, your partner should not fear making a claim against the employer. Any claim would be made against the employers ’employer liability insurance’ cover and as such would not impact directly on the business or their colleagues. Further, and more importantly, your partner has a legal right to pursue a claim for compensation if he believes that someone else’s negligence lead to him sustaining a notable injury and left him out of pocket – as in this case.

The employer has been negligent – by the sounds of it – with regards to their new floor surface. Given that you have put them on notice of your concerns regarding the dangerous and hazardous nature of the floor surface and their inaction to that report of a risk, you have a very strong claim for compensation against the employer.

I would recommend that you contact us further as we would be very happy to take forward your claim against your employer for the injuries and any subsequent loss of income or cost you have incurred as a result of your fall.

Given the lack of signage to warn about the temporary tripping hazard created by the refurbishment of your working area, I think you have grounds to pursue a claim against the employer for your injuries. However, it does appear (thankfully) as if you have escaped serious injury in this incident. Given the lack of medical treatment and no loss of income, if you are recovered and will not require medical attention you may not have the severity of injury needed to enable you to pursue a claim.

Your employer has acted honourably so far by paying costs and ensuring that your salary is paid. However, UK law would afford you the opportunity to make a claim for compensation against your employer for the injuries that you have sustained.

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

Your employer cannot replace you without going through the required statutory process, so if you feel that the employer has treated you unfairly in that regard, you should seek immediate advice from an employment law specialist.

Regarding light duties, an employer is not obliged to provide light duties if they do not exist. However, if there are light duties available and the employer can provide the same then they should do so.

My initial view is that you do have a valid claim against your employer here. The oil on the floor is clearly a dangerous slipping hazard and should have been marked with a hazard sign or been cordoned off.

The lack of medical treatment is not relevant as it is reasonable to self-medicate for a few days/weeks in the hope that the symptoms would ease. However, given your ongoing problems, you should now make an appointment with your GP to discuss the injuries to ensure that they are listed on your medical records. Make sure that your GP is made aware that you suffered the injuries by slipping on oil at work.

These items were a hazard and should not have been in situ. We assume that they were not fenced off and that there were no warning signs and as such, it is likely that you have a valid claim.

You most certainly can and should claim accident at work compensation in this case. You have a right to seek compensation via a No Win No Fee arrangement for your injuries and also to recover your lost income or costs caused by this accident.

The scenario you describe is a prime example of employer negligence and how it has lead your otherwise avoidable injury. The hazardous stairs had been reported to your employer and as such they were on notice of a hazard or risk to health and had an obligation to repair the fault and make them safe. That the employer failed to carry out any remedial work or erect any warnings to reduce the risk of injury despite ample time to do so is where they have been negligent.

You may not know that it is important to report an accident in the workplace, so make sure you record that you tripped on the loose stair material and give information of your injuries in the employers accident book. Noting the lack of employer action on a previously reported hazard demonstrates the negligence of the employer and strengthen your prospects of winning your claim. You should also ensure that a full record of your injuries and symptoms are on record with your GP.

Hi thanks for your reply i never got chance to fill out the book, my work manager filled it out whilst i was in pain straight after the accident. I don’t think they put what i told them, they made me sign it but i was in too much pain read it. I don’t think this should have happened, i never had a choice.

Whether or not you are entitled to claim will depend on what caused you to sustain your injury. If you simply misplaced your footing and suffered an injury, there will be no negligent party and therefore no claim. If however, you were injured because of a hazard on the ground – such as a broken step or a hole in the surface of the ground, or if the ground was wet (only applicable if was is inside), then you have a right to at least pursue a claim with the hope of a successful outcome.

Whether or not you have a viable claim for personal injury compensation will no so much rest on the pre-existing injuries you have listed or whether you have suffered new injuries, but will come down to whether or not the cause of your slip (the waxed floor surface) was unsafe and a hazard. If it can be demonstrated that the floor was excessively slippery and was either polished too much or had too much wax applied and should have been marked as a hazard with a yellow hazard warning sign, then it is likely that you would be able to mount a successful claim for slipping accident compensation.

We would certainly like to speak with you with a view to pursuing a claim for you as there could well be something in this for you. Much will depend on whether or not the accident was reported in the employers accident book and what you can state in terms of what you saw in the area around the floor with regards to any warning signs or if you know of any other colleagues or visitors who have fallen or slipped on the floor in question.

What you describe does not sound correct. You mention that you tripped over boxes that had been left lying around in the workplace and suffering an injury as a result. I cannot imagine that the employer has carried out a risk assessment for boxes being left lying around and to be honest, even if they had done so, one could imagine a cogent argument that leaving boxes lying around in the workplace was an act of employer negligence.

The fact that you were not technically at work at the time of the accident does not matter as any visitor to any premises is protected by Health & Safety law.

At this stage we cannot be sure as to whether or not you have a valid claim for compensation, but we would certainly like to investigate this further for you.

Any employer has the right to terminate an employees contract, as long as they follow the employment laws of the country in question.

Clearly, you suffered a very nasty accident at work and now have to live with the long term effects of a head injury. We often find that the long term symptoms and effects of such accidents can lead to huge turmoil in the lives of our clients who are making a head injury at work claim. It sounds as if your employer did all they could to assist you with regards to your ability to work and they allowed you time off during your recovery. Unfortunately, it sounds as if you are not able to work regularly on a full-time basis due to your ongoing headaches etc. In the UK, an employer cannot fire you for having an accident or for simply taking time off. However, if a worker is regularly unwell and unable to work their will come a time where they will simply have to terminate that workers contract – even if they are unwell due to an accident at work – as it would become prohibitively costly to retain that worker. As long as they then follow the employment rights laws and terminate the position correctly then they are allowed to do so legally.

If you have any concerns as to how your employer dealt with the termination of your position, you should seek the advice of an Employment Law specialist immediately.

The fact that you were not wearing safety shoes here is somewhat of a red herring in this case. The key cause of your accident was a tripping hazard – a wire running across the floor. In a busy working kitchen such a hazard is extremely dangerous and should never have been present.

You may find that your failure to wear safety shoes could cause you to have to accept a small amount of responsibility. As an example, it may be that the defendant insurers argue that you should have had safety shoes on and that if you had you may not have tripped on this wire (although that will very hard argument for them to get to stick), and that you therefore must take some ‘blame’ – perhaps 20% of the responsibility. If this were the case you would still have a claim and obtain a settlement but would lose 20% of the total value.

However, I would say that there is a good chance that you would not have to accept any responsibility and I do think this claim should proceed.

In the UK it is obligatory for employers to have employer liability insurance cover and any claim is usually made against that. If your mother’s employer does not have insurance, it is possible that a claim could be made against their personal wealth. Of course, this makes claiming compensation a little more difficult and far more awkward.

However, in theory if there is a problem with the stairs in question or if the working arrangements/practices make it likely that an injury could be suffered, your mother may well have a viable claim for accident at work compensation.

There could well be a claim to be made here against the employer and restaurant that left the spillage/waste outside their premises. This claim would be for the knee injury and loss of income caused by the same. Unfortunately, given that your husband was only employed for a few months, he has very little rights against his employer for the termination of his contract.

We would be delighted to try and assist with the personal injury claim.

The fact that you didn’t actually fall to the floor would not effect the outcome of any claim you opted to pursue. Whether or not you can succeed with a claim will depend on why you tripped over the pallet. Had it been left in a dangerous position? Was it obscured from view and as such a hazard? If so, you may well succeed with a claim. However, if the pallet was left in a safe location where it is not a walkway and you simply tripped over it because you were not looking where you were going, of course, you would have no claim.

We would like to look in to this further for you as we have succeeded with many identical claims over the years.

Whether or not the claim can succeed will depend on the defence raised by the 3rd party facing the claim. In the United Kingdom, the courts have previously ruled in favour of claimants when a 3rd party has been unable to demonstrate that they employ an adequate and sufficiently thorough cleaning regime in their premises. For example, when a person slips on a spillage on the floor of a supermarket, a slipping accident claim can succeed if it can be shown that the supermarket has not checked their floors for leaks, spillages or dropped items on a regular basis. Also, if spillages/dropped food is cleaned up and the floor washed, a hazard warning sign should be erected to provide notice to those using the area that the floor could be dangerous. As a rule of thumb, the courts have found that unless a business inspects and clears its floors once every 30 minutes that it will be liable if a person is to slip and fall due to an item on their floors. When it comes to claiming slipping accident compensation, the defendant must prove that they employ such a cleaning/monitoring regime.

I hope that this information helps and I wish you every success with your claim for slipping accident compensation.

I’m sorry to hear about your accident at work. We’ve handled claims of a similar nature on a number of occasions – people who have slipped on the footplate of trucks, wagons, vehicles, forklifts etc at work. Employers have a duty of care to ensure that so far as is possible, all risks of injury are removed from the workplace. When it comes to slipping on a footplate/step of a vehicle, the employer should ensure that the step has a non-slip surface if possible and that employees are wearing suitable footwear (i.e that employees are advised as to what footwear is acceptable and what is not). If your employer hasn’t provided a non-slip step surface and the training/advice provided to you and colleagues is insufficient in terms of safety at work, you are likely to have a strong claim for compensation. Indeed, we have succeeded with the vast majority of such claims that we have pursued for claimants.

Our advice would be that we should pursue a claim for injury compensation. You should make sure that you contact your GP and discuss the ongoing symptoms that you are suffering with – light headedness etc. It could well be that alongside the nasty laceration you sustained, that you are also suffering with concussion. Therefore, it may well be unwise to return to work until you are fully recovered.