Back Injury Compensation
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If you would like an initial online assessment of your potential back injury compensation claim, please either:- Click Free Assessment and complete the online questionnaire, or
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Overview of back injury compensation claims
We are currently handling a number of back injury compensation claims, mainly arising from accidents at work.
Back injury victims suffer uniquely. Unlike with a broken arm or a broken leg, there is often no visible injury.
Following the accident, the initial sympathy can often fade away, due to lack of a visible injury. This can leave the individual feeling quite isolated in coping with their injuries.
We appreciate this, and apart from fighting the claim, we realise the importance of general support throughout the case.
The legal framework
Most work accident claims are advanced upon the basis of EU health and safety regulations introduced in the UK at the beginning of 1993.
As far as back injury compensation claims in particular are concerned, the most frequently used EU regulations are the Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992.
The Manual Handling regulations say that, so far as is reasonably practicable, each employer must avoid the need for his employees to undertake any manual handling operations at work, which involve a risk of their being injured.
Where it is not reasonably practicable to avoid the need for manual handling, then a suitable and sufficient risk assessment must be carried out. In nearly all back injury compensation claims, the existence or otherwise of a risk assessment will be important consideration in assessing legal liability.
The risk assessment must take into account factors such as:
- The nature of the task
- The nature of the load being carried
- The working environment
- The capabilities of the individual.
Case study
We are currently acting for a client in Northamptonshire, who suffered a severe back injury while delivering flatpack furniture.
Her immediate employers were a work agency, who sent her to work for a flatpack furniture company.
Neither the company nor the agency had provided any manual handling training. Furthermore neither of them had undertaken a risk assessment.
Liability has been admitted and the claim is continuing.
uk back injury compensation claims