Accident Injury Claim at Workplace

Accident at workplace may cause serious injuries to the workers. It can result in whiplash injuries such as muscle spasms, neck pain, soft tissue pain, frequent headaches, ringing in the ear, tiredness and some times numbness too. Some of them even complain of blurred vision and deafness. This may result out of stressful physical activity at work place. These injuries are commonly seen in slips, trips or falls. Thus, it causes a long term neck discomfort and pain. These accidents can occur at a construction site, factory, warehouse, a shop, office or even on the road. Your injury at work place may be caused by your employer, a fellow employee or another company at your place of work.

At work place, an employer is responsible for all employees' safety and should meet certain work safety standards, failure to do so, will result in accident at office or factory. It is his duty to offer you conducive, safe working environment and the right equipment for you to carry out work. If your injury is a result of employer's non - adherence of safety measures and ignorance, then he has to pay compensation to his injured employee.

An accident at work place, office or factory can result out of an obsolete machine, short circuits, faulty equipment, not having sufficient training in order to carry out a particular task, or you are asked to do something risky which could have been avoided. In some cases, serious injuries may not be seen on an MRI scan, CT scan or X-ray, although an X-ray is taken if there is a suspicion of fracture or dislocation of the spinal chord. Some times it may be necessary to supplement an exercise programme with painkillers.

Make a claim from your employers. Your employer is entitled to pay you compensation for the damage he has caused to you directly or indirectly. It is due to his ignorance on safety measure at work place that you have suffered serious injury.