Whilst the use of the phrase “fallen off the back of a lorry” may usually refer to people obtaining goods for free or at a cut price, we have taken on claims for personal injury compensation where workers have been hit by stock cages or goods falling off by accident and injuring them.
So what happens if you are injured because someone fetching stock from a van or lorry fails to secure a load properly and it falls off and hits you? Or perhaps it isn’t secure in the first place?
Your Rights
Generally speaking your employer has an important duty to ensure their employees are not injured in the line of duty. If you are injured because a colleague has been negligent, then your employer is ultimately responsible. If you are injured because the system of work is unsafe, then your employer may again be at fault and may be liable to compensate you.
Activities in a workplace should be risk assessed to allow provisions to be put in place to prevent accidents form occurring. If there isn’t a proper procedure to make sure that goods are safely moved from the back of a van or a lorry and safely brought down to be moved, accidents can obviously occur. If there was more that your employer could have done to prevent an incident, we can allege they have failed to take all reasonable steps to prevent you from being injured.
Employers have a duty to have insurance so you can make a work injury claim for compensation and recover money for the injuries and any expenses or losses on your part.
100% Compensation for Work Accident Claims
The law changed in April 2013 and now most lawyers are charging their clients up to 25% from their payout to offset fees they are not allowed to recover from the other side. But we are still offering 100% compensation agreements as we are waiving the deduction charge for our clients that other lawyers are now making their clients pay.
