Fall from height at work claim

The compensation you receive varies depending on the severity of your accident and how much support you need (such as care and treatment). To find out how we can help, we need to understand your circumstances and accident, as people get injured due to working at height in a number of ways:

• Ladder accidents – Ladders and stepladders are an easy way to access high areas; however, they are not always the safest or most suitable method. Ladders should only be used for periods of short duration and in circumstances where there is low risk or no alternative. Common causes of ladder accident also include where the ladders have been badly maintained, where materials or tools need to be carried up and down the ladders and where the ladder has not been fixed or stabilised correctly.
• Falls from or through a roof – Many serious injuries are as a result of falls where workers are moving between surfaces, where workers don’t notice a roof light or realise how dangerous they are to stand on, where the roof cannot support the load or where there has been loss of grip.
• Falls from machinery or large vehicles – These types of accidents are particularly prevalent in the farming, construction and manufacturing industries.
• Falls from scaffolding – Most building site and construction accidents are normally due to scaffolding not being correctly fitted and maintained, or where training has not been provided.
• Falls in warehouses/supermarkets – These can include instances where employees have sustained injury as a result of a fall whilst stacking shelves or moving goods around.
  
  Other falls from height can include any significant falls from areas that may have no safety barrier or warnings such as loading bays, telegraph poles and pylons, lift shafts and even stairs.

As specialist catastrophic and serious injury solicitors, we have the expertise you would expect in recovering compensation where someone else is at fault. What sets us apart, however, is all the extra stuff that we do that you would not expect from a firm of solicitors and why we do it.

As well as legal advice, we focus on providing the financial, physical and emotional support you and your family need. We do this right from the very start when it feels like your world has been turned upside down and the priority is pulling together to get your life back on track. We then work closely with you throughout your case, ensuring you achieve your best outcome and can go on to lead a fulfilled life.

Why do we do this? The answer is simple. We all share a common purpose: to help those affected by injury – together. The together part is really important to us. We know that by working collaboratively as a team with you and your family, we can achieve so much more.

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