• About Us
  • Shop
  • Contact
  • Login
  • Register
The Urban Twist
  • News
  • Opinion
  • Entertainment
  • Politics
  • Sports
  • Lifestyle
    • Race & Culture
    • Fashion
    • Love & Romance
    • Food
    • Health
  • Tech
  • Features
  • Videos
No Result
View All Result
  • News
  • Opinion
  • Entertainment
  • Politics
  • Sports
  • Lifestyle
    • Race & Culture
    • Fashion
    • Love & Romance
    • Food
    • Health
  • Tech
  • Features
  • Videos
No Result
View All Result
The Urban Twist
No Result
View All Result

7 Workplace Injury Situations Where You May Claim Compensation

TUT StaffbyTUT Staff
August 6, 2019
inLifestyle
7 Workplace Injury Situations Where You May Claim Compensation

insurance: blank work injury claim form on desk

In a perfect world, no one would get injured in their workplace, and no one would need compensation. Employees would also not need to seek legal recourse in order to get adequate compensation to look after their medical needs.

Finding a great personal injury lawyer is vital.

1. Back And Spine Injuries

Back and spine injuries come in all shapes and sizes. If you are involved in heavy labor you may think that you are more at risk of being a victim of a back injury, but this is not necessarily the case.

You can injure back in an office just as easily. You may have a chair that just doesn’t work for you ergonomically that sitting in repeatedly causes lower back pain, or even shoulder and neck pain if you have to sit awkwardly to type.

Perhaps you have had to stand, and not been given sufficient break times. Not all injuries are going to be an instant problem – they may accumulate over time, though this may be a little more difficult to prove unless you document the problem, and any failure to act on the part of the company you work for.

2. Bone Fractures

If you break a bone or suffer a fracture at work, which a lot of people unfortunately do, it should definitely be covered by workplace insurance.

People slip, drop things, and fall over, and there are often more ways to injure yourself in a work situation than at home.

A lot of it is purely that you spend so much time at work, this increases the likelihood of having an injury there.

No matter how many precautions are taken, accidents still occur. It may be that jobs that are more high risk have better safety measures, but there are OSHA compliance laws that affect every single workplace.

3. Burns

If you are in the kind of job where you are exposed to situations that may lead to you suffering burns, you are often going to be trained so that you can avoid this outcome.

This doesn’t mean that if you suffer an injury in the course of performing your duties that you are going to be unable to claim compensation.

Of course, any job has the potential for you to get burned.

What caused the injury? Were there adequate measures in place to handle the eventuality of an accident? Was your company compliant with the safety training Mississauga laws governing your industry? You can visit atlantaadvocate.com to find out more information, or to set up a time to talk to someone.

4. Repetitive Stress Injuries

Repetitive stress injuries can, unfortunately, come with any job. Obviously, these build up over time, so documenting when it started and what happened is important.

Carrying around a hod of bricks or pushing pallets around in a warehouse may be a very obvious cause for someone having a bad back or joints, but they are definitely not the only way you might hurt yourself.

You don’t have to be lifting heavy loads to hurt yourself. You could be working on a production line doing the same thing over and over again, and you may injure yourself.

People develop RSI from typing too much. Standing up and sitting down as a regular part of your job could hurt your knees and back. Occupational therapists work with all kinds of different workers to help alleviate the damage that these kinds of activities can cause.

5. Traumatic Brain Injuries

As with all of these situations traumatic brain injuries are something that you hope to never have to face.

You or your family does have recourse, though. A good personal injury lawyer will be able to help you navigate the process and make sure that you are able to get the compensation that you need either to aid in your recovery or where that is unfortunately not likely, to make sure that you are adequately taken care of.

Most companies are responsibly insured and are prepared to help their workers in these kinds of cases, but it still pays to make sure that you are receiving the best advice, and that you are getting the best possible compensation available. There may be hidden costs you hadn’t envisaged, and this along with the lost income may have a serious impact on you and your family.

6. Toxic Exposure

If you are exposed to toxic fumes in your workplace it can cause permanent respiratory damage, you may suffer chemical burns, or it may be responsible for neurological damage.

Some of the problems may not immediately present themselves, for instance in asbestos cases, or situations where the exposure may have taken place over a prolonged period of time, at doses that were not immediately obvious. Cumulative damage can point to long term employer negligence – something that can be determined by sitting down with someone that is able to go over your case with you.

7. Loss Of Digits And Limbs

This is obviously more likely to occur in an industrial situation, but as aforementioned, each and every one of these injuries can occur in a regular office space.

Make sure that if you injure yourself in any way that you document what happened during and after the injury, and if there is any pertinent data regarding company practice in relation to a workplace injury, that you think might help your case, you should present it.

It is always a pretty good rule to go by that the more information you have, the better your case can be fought for. This is, of course, presupposing that your employer is not going to cooperate, which is obviously not always the case.

You may want to seek legal advice to find out what you are entitled to just because you are not familiar with injury law.

Conclusion

These are obviously not all of the ways in which you can injure yourself, but they are the injuries which are most often reported.

If you have injured yourself in the workplace and you are unsure about what your employer’s responsibility might be, it is wise to seek out the advice of a lawyer who has a specialty in personal injury law and discuss your case with them.

Previous Post

Forex Chart Patterns

Next Post

Inspiration Strikes! How to Turn an Idea into a Product

Related Posts

Apple Introduces New iMacs With Vibrant Color Schemes And Touch ID
Technology

Apple Introduces New iMacs With Vibrant Color Schemes And Touch ID

byBien Luigi
April 21, 2021
two yellow labrador retriever puppies
Lifestyle

Best Dogs For City Living

byTUT Staff
April 21, 2021
Can You Sue a Nursing Home?
Lifestyle

Can You Sue a Nursing Home?

byTUT Staff
April 21, 2021
Five Car Crimes, and What to Do If They Happen to You
Lifestyle

Five Car Crimes, and What to Do If They Happen to You

byTUT Staff
April 21, 2021
How to Prevent Employee Lawsuits
Lifestyle

How to Prevent Employee Lawsuits

byTUT Staff
April 21, 2021
Next Post
Inspiration Strikes! How to Turn an Idea into a Product

Inspiration Strikes! How to Turn an Idea into a Product

TOP STORIES

#ReleaseThePepeCut: Pepe Le Pew’s Space Jam Co-Star Greice Santo’s Offering a $100,000 ‘Reward’ For The Now-Deleted Footage
Cover Story

#ReleaseThePepeCut: Pepe Le Pew’s Space Jam Co-Star Greice Santo’s Offering a $100,000 ‘Reward’ For The Now-Deleted Footage

byTUT Staff
March 12, 2021
US Capitol Police Chief Resigns After Riots At The Capitol
Cover Story

US Capitol Police Chief Resigns After Riots At The Capitol

byBien Luigi
January 7, 2021
Chloe and Halle heat up the summer with sassy new single “Do It”
Cover Story

Chloe and Halle heat up the summer with sassy new single “Do It”

byAshly E. Smith
May 20, 2020

LATEST NEWS

The Best Options For Streaming Service This Weekend

The Best Options For Streaming Service This Weekend

6 hours ago
Flatbush Zombies’ Debut Album Will Be Celebrated With An Upcoming Graphic Novel

Flatbush Zombies’ Debut Album Will Be Celebrated With An Upcoming Graphic Novel

7 hours ago
Rich The Kid’s ‘Richard Millie Patek’ Is A Tribute To Expensive Watch Collecting

Rich The Kid’s ‘Richard Millie Patek’ Is A Tribute To Expensive Watch Collecting

7 hours ago
Ariana Grande And The Weeknd Offer New Life “Save Your Tears” With An Animated Remix

Ariana Grande And The Weeknd Offer New Life “Save Your Tears” With An Animated Remix

7 hours ago
The Season 3 Trailer For ‘Call Of Duty: Warzone’ Features Everyone From Young Thug To Mookie Betts

The Season 3 Trailer For ‘Call Of Duty: Warzone’ Features Everyone From Young Thug To Mookie Betts

11 hours ago
Kerry Washington, Ciara, And Other Celebrities Respond To Derek Chauvin’s Conviction

Kerry Washington, Ciara, And Other Celebrities Respond To Derek Chauvin’s Conviction

2 days ago
  • Write For Us
  • Home
  • Contact Us
  • Terms
  • Privacy
  • Copyright & DMCA

Copyright © 2021 Phoenix Stokes Media Group, LLC. All rights reserved.
Website designed and developed by P.S. Web Pros.

No Result
View All Result
  • Home
    • Home – Layout 1
    • Home – Layout 2
    • Home – Layout 3
  • Landing Page
  • Buy JNews
  • Support Forum
  • Pre-sale Question
  • Contact Us

Copyright © 2021 Phoenix Stokes Media Group, LLC. All rights reserved.
Website designed and developed by P.S. Web Pros.

Welcome Back!

Login to your account below

Forgotten Password? Sign Up

Create New Account!

Fill the forms bellow to register

All fields are required. Log In

Retrieve your password

Please enter your username or email address to reset your password.

Log In