Sunrise Solicitors are UK's leading injury lawyers acting on No Win No Fee basis dealing with all types of personal injury claims. Our injury lawyers specialise in No Win No Fee injury claims particularly whiplash injury claim and claims for injuries at work. Our injury lawerys will deal with your injury claim free of charge as we reocver our legal costs from the other side. You keep 100% of your compensation claim for your personal injury. Our Personal Injury Claims Calculator can be used to determine the estimated compensation you are likely to receive if your personal injury claim is successful.

If you received a personal injury in an accident within the past 3 years and it was not your fault, then you maybe able to make a  claim for compensation. To discuss your injury claim for free, please call our injury lawyers on 020 8543 0999 or complete our Claim Online Form and our injury lawyers will contact you as soon as possible. You can also contact our injury  lawyers through our Live Online Support / Live Chat.

What Are Common Accidents At Work?

Common accidents at work include:
  • Back Injury due to Lifting Objects,
  • Forklift Truck Accidents,
  • Scaffolding Accidents,
  • Factory Accidents,
  • Accidents using ladders
  • Accidents due to inadequate tools or equipment
  • Accidents due to Inadequate Training

Accidents or Injuries at work can occur through many hazards. For example, you may have:

  • Slipped on a wet floor
  • Tripped over a cable
  • Used unsuitable or faulty equipment provided by the employer
  • Had to lift heavy objects
  • Been provided with inadequate training or protective equipment
  • Been injured as a result of mistakes made by other employees

Health And Safety Measures At Work

It is the legal responsibility of your employer to provide you with safe and suitable equipment for you to do your job in a safe manner. The employer also has the responsibility to train you in how to safely use the work equipment, to inspect and maintain the work equipment, and to ensure that the work equipment is used correctly through proper training and effective supervision. 

This covers all the equipment that an employee may use at work place from chair or computer to a pneumatic drill or the dustbin man's dustcart. Whatever the equipment, your employer has responsibility for it and the way you use it.

Your employer must ensure, to the best of his ability, that the staff that he employs around you are competent to do theirjobs, and do not put others at risk by their actions. So if an employee injures another through a failure to use equipment properly, or a drink or drugs problem, or simply when messing around, then the employer is potentially liable for those actions.

Your employer has a duty to protect you and tell you about health and safety issues that affect you. They also have a legal obligation to report certain accidents and incidents and to pay you sick pay if you are entitled to it.

Your employer has to carry out a risk assessment and do what's needed to take care of the health and safety of employees and visitors. This includes deciding how many first aiders are needed, and what kind of first aid equipment and facilities should be provided. First aiders have no statutory right to extra pay, but some employers do offer this. Employees must also take reasonable care over their own health and safety.


Reporting And Recording An Accident At Work

Your employer must report serious work-related accidents, diseases and dangerous incidents to the Incident Contact Centre of the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). They must report:
  • death
  • major injuries, eg a broken arm or ribs
  • dangerous incidents, eg the collapse of scaffolding, people overcome by gas
  • any other injury that stops an employee from doing their normal work for more than three days
  • disease

The reporting must be done by your employer, but if you are involved it's a good idea to make sure it's been reported.

Any injury at work should be recorded in your employer's 'accident book'. Your employer must keep an accident book. It's mainly for the benefit of employees, as it provides a useful record of what happened in case you need time off work or need to claim compensation later on.  But recording accidents also helps your employer to see what's going wrong and take action to stop accidents in future.

 

What To Do Next If You Had An Accident At Work?

If you had an accident at work, you should make sure that you take the following steps: 
  • make sure you record any injury in the 'accident book'
  • if need be, make sure your employer has reported it to the HSE
  • check your contract or written statement of employment for information about sick or accident pay
  • if there's a dispute, try to sort it out with your employer
  • if there are health and safety problems at work, point them out to your employer or the employee safety representative, and ask for them to be dealt with
  • if this doesn't happen, call the HSE Infoline

Sick Pay For An Accident At Work

In most cases, if you need time off because of an accident at work, you will only have the right to statutory sick pay. Your employer may have a scheme for paying more for time off caused by accidents, or may decide to pay extra depending on what has happened.

Compensation For Injury At Work

Why Choose Sunrise Solicitors For Your Injury At Work Claim?

Our injury lawyers are experts in dealing with injury at work claims. You can contact us if you are seeking legal help from injury lawyers in relation to your accident at work injury claim.  Our injury lawyers act for clients from all over the country and we will instruct medical experts local to you.  Our injury lawyers will provide a fast, friendly, reliable and professional personal injury claim service in relation to your claim for injury at work.

If you instruct us with respect to your injury at work claim then we will do the following casework for you:

  • Our injury lawyers will discuss your  injury claim for accident at work with you and advise you about the relevant legal issues in relation to your compensation claim for injury at work;
  • Our injury lawyers will assess your accident at work injury claim and advise you about the merits of your claim for compensation;
  • Our injury lawyers will arrange legal insurance for you, if needed;
  • Our injury lawyers will explain the procedure of making a personal injury claim for accident at work and guide you through the entire process;
  • Our injury lawyers will liaise with the Defendant, their insurers and solicitors for the entire duration of your compensation claim for injury at work;
  • Our injury lawyers will actively progress your personal injury claim for compensation and keep you informed of the progress at each stage of your personal injury claim for accident at work;
  • Our injury lawyers do not deduct any money from your damages as we recover our costs from the Defendant.

If you sustained a personal injury in an accident at work through no fault of your own, then you could be entitled to make a claim for compensation. You will receive 100% compensation for your injury at work with no deductions. So you won't pay a penny! The workplace you were injured in could be an office, building site, warehouse, factory or a farm.

How To Claim for Your Injury At Work?

If you have been injured in an accident at work and you think your employer is at fault, you may want to make a claim for compensation. Any claim must be made within three years of the date of the accident.

By law, your employer must be insured to cover a successful claim. Your employer should place a certificate with the name of their employer's insurance company where it can be seen at work. If not, they must give you the details if you need them.

If you are considering making a compensation claim for injury at work against your employer, remember that the aim of legal damages is to put you in the position you would be in had the accident not happened - it's not about getting hold of some 'free' money.

You are entitled to make a compensation claim for your injury at work if you meet the following criteria:

  • The injury at work was sustained within the last three years

  • The accident that caused work injury was not due to your fault

  • You received medical attention for your injury at work

  • The accident at work was reported and recorded in the employer's 'Accident Book'

If you received an injury at work in an  accident at work within the past 3 years and it was not your fault, then you maybe able to make a claim for compensation. To discuss your injury at work claim for free, please call our injury lawyers on 020 8543 0999 or complete our  Claim Online Form and our injury lawyers will contact you as soon as possible. You can also contact our injury lawyers through our Live Online Support / Live Chat.

Claim Online for your Injury At Work

Start your work injury claim now by simply completing the Claim Online Form below and our injury lawyers will call you back to discuss your accident at work injury compensation claim.









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