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Making An Accident Claim For Your Workplace Injury
By Credit Watcher | September 2, 2010
Making an accident claim is considered the logical thing to do in order to obtain compensation for the victim following a car accident or injury sustained from a slip or trip. It is also possible to launch a work accident claim in the event of suffering an injury in the workplace that wasn’t your fault.
Not so many people are so aware that it is possible to make a work accident claim, and few are keen to make one, feeling afraid that there will be negative consequences to making the claim. Victims shouldn’t worry though, employers who have failed in their duty to protect employees from accident or injury at work cannot terminate the contract of an employee purely because they make a claim. What’s more any compensation money comes from the insurance that the employer has, so the claim poses no threat to the company or the security of the jobs of other employees. There is no reason to feel guilty about making an accident claim: prolonged absence from work in the recovery stages can bring about financial problems and the point of compensation is to ease this financial burden.
Work accidents can take a variety of forms. An injury sustained in any workplace including offices, warehouses, factories, farms, shops and restaurants could all count. For employees whose jobs entail driving, an accident in the van, forklift, lorry or car might constitute a work accident too.
In an ideal world, employers would all comply perfectly with strict health and safety laws so that their employees could be protected from any risk of injury. Unfortunately, accident do happen. Accidents in fork lift trucks and on ladders and scaffolding are common examples.
If you are wondering if you have an accident claim for your workplace injury, it is best to consult an accident claim solicitor. If you have a case it is important to be aware that victims must start their compensation claim within three years of the accident happening. If the victim was under eighteen then they have three years from the date of their eighteenth birthday to make the claim. In cases of industrial disease, different timescale limitations apply.
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