This is a guide on crush injury at work claims. If you have suffered harm in an accident because of your employer breaching the duty of care they owed you, you could be eligible to seek compensation.
Crush injury at work claims guide
In this guide, we will explore when you could be eligible to put forward a claim, the evidence you could gather to support your case and the compensation you could be awarded if your claim succeeds.
Additionally, this guide will discuss the benefits of hiring a No Win No Fee solicitor from our panel to represent your claim. We will also look at the services they could provide.
For more information, you can get in touch with our team of advisors. They can assess whether you could be eligible to seek accident at work compensation. To reach them, you can:
- Call us on 0800 073 8805
- Start your claim online
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- A Guide To Crush Injury At Work Claims
- Potential Compensation Payout For An Accident At Work Claim
- When Are You Eligible To Claim For A Crush Injury?
- Crush Injury At Work Claims – What Evidence Could Help You?
- Why Use Our No Win No Fee Accident At Work Solicitors?
- Learn More About Crush Injury At Work Claims
A Guide To Crush Injury At Work Claims
A crush injury at work can impact those affected in various ways. They may vary in severity, ranging from a minor crushed finger injury that recovers quickly to a severe crushed leg injury that requires surgical amputation. Other injuries can include:
The severity of your injury will be taken into consideration alongside other factors when calculating how much you’re owed in compensation. In addition, the impact the injury has had on your quality of life, whether you experienced a psychological injury, the financial implications of the injury and your future prognosis will be considered when valuing your potential settlement.
As there are several factors considered, the settlement you receive will be unique to your specific case. We have provided further guidance on how the payout you could receive may be calculated if you make a successful claim in the section below.
To learn more about the work injury claim process, please get in touch with our team. They can discuss crush injury at work claims with you. Alternatively, continue reading to learn what you could receive after sustaining harm at work.
Potential Compensation Payout For An Accident At Work Claim
After making a successful work injury claim, you could be awarded a settlement consisting of two heads of claim. General damages award for the pain and suffering, both physical and emotional, caused by your injury.
As part of the claims process, you may be invited to attend an independent medical assessment. The report produced from this appointment could provide details on the nature of your injury. Solicitors can use this report to help them value your injury.
Alongside this, they may use the Judicial College Guidelines. This document shows compensation brackets for different injuries varying in severity. We have used these figures in the table below. Please only use them as a guide because your actual settlement may differ.
| Injury Type | Notes | Compensation |
|---|---|---|
| Hand Injury | (a) Both hands are totally or effectively lost. | £140,660 to £201,490 |
| Hand Injury | (b) Both hands are seriously damaged. | £55,820 to £84,570 |
| Hand Injury | (c) One hand is totally or effectively lost such as due to the hand being crushed. | £96,160 to £109,650 |
| Hand Injury | (e) Hand injuries that are serious. The hand is reduced to about half it's capacity. | £29,000 to £61,910 |
| Arm Amputation | (b) (i) One arm is amputated at the shoulder. | Not less than £137,160 |
| Other Arm Injury | (b) Injuries, such as serious forearm fractures affecting one or both arms and causing a permanent and substantial disability. | £39,170 to £59,860 |
| Leg Injury | (b) Severe (ii) Very serious injuries that cause permanent issues with the person's mobility. | £54,830 to £87,890 |
| Foot Injury | (c) Very severe foot injuries such as those that cause permanent and severe pain or a really serious disability that is permanent. | £83,960 to £109,650 |
| Foot Injury | (e) Serious injuries that are less severe than the bracket above it. Includes injuries causing ongoing pain from traumatic arthritis. | £24,990 to £39,200 |
| Toe Injury | (c) Severe toe injuries such as crush injuries causing one or two toes to be amputated. | £13,740 to £21,070 |
Can You Receive Special Damages As Part Of Your Workplace Injury Compensation?
The potential settlement you’re awarded could also consist of special damages. These compensate for the financial losses you have incurred due to your injury. Examples of these can include:
- Care costs
- Travel costs
- The cost of adaptations made to your home or vehicle
- Lost earnings, both past and future
- Medical costs
It’s important to keep a record of these losses when claiming them back. You can do this by keeping hold of receipts, payslips or invoices.
For more information on the compensation that could be awarded in crush injury at work claims, get in touch on the number above.
When Are You Eligible To Claim For A Crush Injury?
As per the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974, employers have a duty of care to take any steps that are considered reasonable as a way to reduce the risk of employees sustaining harm in the workplace. The steps they need to take may depend on the industry in which they work. However, they can include:
- Carrying out regular risk assessments
- Providing training that’ adequate
- Providing personal protective equipment, where necessary
- Maintaining equipment
- Addressing any hazards they become aware of.
If they fail to do so, it could result in an employee sustaining harm in an accident. For example:
- An employee may trap their hand or finger in faulty equipment that an employer failed to maintain.
- An employer may have failed to provide adequate training to an employer operating a forklift truck. As a result, several employees may sustain crush injuries in a forklift accident.
However, not all accidents will form the basis of crush injury at work claims. In order to seek compensation, you must be able to show your employer breached the duty of care they owed you and caused you to sustain harm as a result.
To learn more, please get in touch using the details above.
Crush Injury At Work Claims – What Evidence Could Help You?
There are several forms of evidence you could collect in order to support your case. For example:
- A copy of the incident report from the accident at work book
- CCTV footage showing the accident
- Witness contact details
- Copies of your medical records.
If you are unsure on the evidence you could collect to support your case, you may find it beneficial working with a solicitor from our panel. They can help you throughout the crush injury at work claims process. Additionally, they can:
- Help ensure you have sufficient and relevant evidence to support your case
- Keep you updated at the different stages of the claims process
- Ensure you put forward a full and complete case.
To learn whether work accident solicitor from our panel could represent your case, please get in touch using the details provided below.
Why Use Our No Win No Fee Accident At Work Solicitors?
You may find it beneficial working with a personal injury solicitor offering a No Win No Fee agreement as it mitigates the financial risk of accessing their services. Often, solicitors working on this basis can offer their services under a Conditional Fee Agreement.
As per this type of arrangement, you won’t typically pay for the work your solicitor has done if the claim fails. If the claim wins, you will pay a success fee. This is paid to your solicitor from your compensation.
The solicitors from our panel can offer their services on this basis. To learn whether they could represent your claim, get in touch using the details provided below.
Contact Us For Free To See If You Can Make A Crush Injury Claim
We hope this guide discussing crush injury at work claims has helped. However, we understand you may still have questions after reading. If you do, an advisor can help you understand whether you’re eligible to claim and whether a solicitor from our panel could represent your case. To learn more, you can:
- Call us on 0800 073 8805
- Start your claim online
- Use the live chat option below.
Learn More About Crush Injury At Work Claims
Below, you can find more of our guides:
- What is the most common injury at work?
- Injury at work while self-employed
- Compensation claims for a trip and fall at work
In addition to this, the following external resources can offer more guidance:
- Health and Safety Executive – Workplace injury statistics
- NHS – Compartment Syndrome
- GOV – Statutory Sick Pay
Thank you for reading this guide on crush injury at work claims. If you have any other questions, please get in touch using the details provided above.
Writer Jeff Winch
Editor Meg Matthews