What are Industrial Injury Claims?

Compared to personal injuries which are incurred during your own time, an Industrial Injury occurs during your daily employment.

If you have been involved in an accident while at work and the accident was caused through no fault of your own, you may be able to make Industrial Injury Claims against your employer, especially if you have been unable to work for a period of time, following the accident because of the injury sustained.

Under current law in most countries, an Employer has a legal obligation to ensure the safety of it’s employees as part of its Duty Of Care under the legisltaion.

This means that if the company provides you with inadequate equipment, processes or an unsafe, documented method of work from which you sustain an injury they can be the subject of Industrial Injury Claims.

There are many categories of Industrial Injury Claims but a few examples would be:

• Physical injury such as loss of limb, disability, blindness, burns.

• Prescribed Diseases such as Noise Induced Hearing Loss, Asbestosis, Mesothelioma, Industrial Asthma, Chronic Bronchitis, Vibration White Finger (VWF)

• It may also be possible in extreme circumstances to be able to make Industrial Injury Claims for other injuries sustained at work.

It is worth consulting experts as early as possible to discuss particular conditions so that decisions on whether legitimate Industrial Injury Claims can be made.

It is worth giving a little bit of detail to the Prescribed Diseases as some medical advice and history will be needed in support of any Industrial Injury Claims you might make.

Additional information can be found within this site.

How Do I Make Industrial Injury Claims?

If the condition or disease that is being suffered was the result of negligence on the part of an employer, they may be guilty and responsible for the injury or illness.

It can often be very difficult to decide whether or not someone has been subject to a dangerous situation or environment so it is highly recommended to consult a specialist Industrial Injury Claims solicitor to provide a better understanding as to whether or not there is a case to be filed.

If it can be proven that the employer was negligent and liable then compensation may be paid out but you will have to decide, with your solicitor, whether or not you have a good chance of winning your case and what your chances are.

In order to determine whether or not Industrial Injury Claims will be successful, it will be necessary to ensure that the specialist injury claims solicitor is knowledgable about the particular injury or illness you are suffering.

Assessments will need to be carried out with Health professionals and information about length of employment, details of the accident or disease provided and facts compliled to make the case for the claim.

This is a very tedious process for the injury claim solicitors and so it is best to work with people who are willing to help you out and give good advice for your benefit and not theirs.

There are plenty of specialists advertising their services so it is worth spending time finding a good one. Word of mouth is often a good referral.

Find out about their success rate and learn as much possible about the specialist Industrial Injury Claims advisor and see how well they have performed with other clients.

It can be very stressful dealing with a specialist solicitor who simply does not care about a case, or even worse, makes someone believe that there is a good case even though he or she already knows that your case will not be successful.

Though many people do not want to the time to research and identify a good specialist Industrial Injury Claims solicitors, it will always be most beneficial for you and your family to only work with the the best in the business.

Industrial injury claims can return great compensation, as long as you are able to prove that you did get the illness or injury from work, but to get the most benefit ensure you either get a no-win no-fee guarantee or that where a case is successful the Solicitors costs do not come out of your compensation.