Whether you can claim compensation for your warehouse accident depends primarily on whether it was your fault that it occurred or your employers fault. Providing that you had worked as you had been trained and instructed to, reported any unsafe situations as you encountered them and hadn’t behaved in a manner that put you or one of your colleagues in danger, you can safely consider that you had carried out your health and safety responsibilities as an employee and that it would be difficult to demonstrate that your accident was your fault.
The next question that your specialist work accident solicitor (you have instructed one, haven’t you?) will seek an answer to is whether or not your accident was a reasonably foreseeable consequence of any negligence on your employers part in discharging his legal obligations to ensure that you are safe at work. Put simply; did your employer screwing up cause or contribute to you having your accident?
A simple example would be the employer who in attempt to maximise space utilisation makes the aisles between racking fixtures in his warehouse too narrow for forklift trucks and pedestrians to pass each other safely and fails to rectify the situation even when employees point out the hazard. As a result of this negligence an employee suffers a crush injury when his foot is run over by a forklift truck.
If the circumstances surrounding your warehouse work accident can tick all those boxes it might be possible for you to make your claim for compensation. Your expert work accident lawyer would be able to determine the viability of your proposed claim and then, if it was viable, undertake all the evidence gathering and legal research work that would enable him or her to be able to negotiate it to a successful conclusion for you.
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If you sustain an injury in a warehouse accident through no fault of your own, you deserve compensation.
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