Fall from height injury claims
If you’ve been injured whilst working, the chances are you’ll have a strong claim to make for compensation. Of course, there may be circumstances wherein it’s your fault that you were injured. If you’ve got something wrong, failed to take the right precautions or not followed the correct safety procedures, then you’ve really no one to blame but yourself and the only option is to try and get on with your work as best you can, having learned the lessons from your mistake. Often, however, an accident at work arises from the negligence of your employer. If your employer has failed to ensure that your working environment is as safe as possible then they have failed in their duty of care to you and you have every right to expect that you’ll be compensated.
The precise details of your fall from height accident will differ from case to case, but the basic principles remain the same. Any company has a legal obligation to ensure the safety of their staff and an accident at work represents a major failing in this obligation. It could be that you’ve tripped and fallen on some untidy cables or a patch of oil or grease that should have been cleared up, or perhaps the correct safety guard wasn’t fitted on a piece of equipment you were using, or the proper level of safety clothing hadn’t been supplied.
In any of these scenarios you’ve been badly let down, and the same applies if you’re injured following a fall from height whilst at work. If you’re asked to work on a high ledge or the roof of a building then your employer should have gone to every possible length to make sure that you couldn’t fall and injure yourself – if you haven’t been fitted with the correct safety harness, for example, or a ladder which is built to stay upright no matter what the circumstances, then the resulting fall can be blamed firmly on your employer and the injuries you’ve suffered are their fault. Having fallen from height, the injuries you’ve received could be very severe – broken bones, severe bruising, whiplash, even spinal injuries leading to paralysis – and will therefore have a dramatically damaging effect upon your life.
If you call us FREE on 0808 231 5942 then we’ll take the details of your case and tell you whether there’s any chance of pursuing a claim for fall from height compensation. Our expert personal injury solicitors will build a case designed to demonstrate that your injuries were caused by the fall from height and that the fall occurred because your employer failed to ensure your safety was properly taken care of. Once this has been established, it will then be a case of showing that the injuries you received have had a major effect upon your life – causing pain, limiting your ability to earn a living and enjoy your social life and also bringing about a great deal of stress and anxiety – and that the compensation you deserve should be calculated to take all of this into effect.
People sometimes worry about taking out a claim against their employer, but the law states that all employers have to have insurance covering them against such eventualities, and so the money you receive won’t be coming directly from them and, thanks to our no win no fee system, you’ll receive each and every penny of the amount which is awarded. From our point of view, this is only fair, and fairness is what we’re all about.
