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Any tripping accident can result in serious injuries – especially if you land on a hard floor. That’s why there are specific regulations that employers must abide by in order to protect their employees from being injured in the line of duty. The Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992 have a specific section dedicated to the condition of floors and traffic routes.

This section states the following:

(3) So far as is reasonably practicable, every floor in a workplace and the surface of every traffic route in a workplace shall be kept free from obstructions and from any article or substance which may cause a person to slip, trip or fall.

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If you’re expected to lift and carry boxes and packages around the workplace, the last thing you expect is for the packaging / box to suddenly break, causing a sudden shift in weight or objects contained inside to fall out and cause you an injury.

So what if it does happen? Do you have any right to make a claim for personal injury compensation caused by the incident?

All employers do have a general duty to make sure that you’re safe in the workplace. So if they have failed to take steps to look after you, or cut corners or do things that could potentially be dangerous, you may able to claim from their insurance.

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For some reason, a lot of ramps can often get very slippery in wet weather, and you’d think they’d have really good grip on them given that a sloped surface could be even more of a hazard if it’s slippery.

If you are the victim of a slip on a ramp, can you make a claim for personal injury compensation? I’ll split this one in to two sections – one for accidents at work, and one for general ones when out and about.

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You’re walking along and your foot suddenly goes through the floor – stopping you in your tracks and causing an injury – what can you do about it?

Well you may have a claim for personal injury compensation if this has happened to you. We would defiantly be able to look in to a claim on a No Win, No Fee basis; no one expects their foot to just go through a floor.

Injuries caused can be widespread – whether you twist your knee or ankle because your still moving forward when your foot falls through, or whether your foot is badly bruised and grazed from the friction of falling in, this kind of thing should never happen. If it happens in a public place or a place of work, there may be a claim against those is in control of the premises / the employer.

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A claim for personal injury compensation for a slipping accident can sometimes be difficult to win when it comes to spillages. The reason for this is that the duty, whether it’s against a supermarket or your employer, is that areas of the premises need to be routinely inspected to clear away hazards. So if you slip on a spillage and the other side can show they have taken all reasonable steps in inspecting the premises to prevent this from happening as much as they can, they can defend the claim.
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Whether it’s the Bognor Regis, Skegness, or Minehead resort, the last thing you expect is for your holiday to be hampered by having an accident through no fault of your own. We have represented a lot of clients who have needed to make claims for personal injury compensation after an accident at Butlins, so we’re used to dealing with them.

Health and safety at any holiday resort is of paramount importance. Everyone’s normally in high spirits and the kids are full of beans so the last thing people are thinking about is how to avoid an accident! The duty in law that Butlins have is to take all reasonable steps to prevent their customers’ form being injured. This is something they have to do in accordance with the Occupiers Liability Act.
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Like other large retailers, Sainsbury’s have insurance that people just like you can claim from in the event you are injured in one of their stores. Whether it’s a superstore or one of the many Sainsbury’s Local stores around the UK, we as a specialist firm of personal injury lawyers can help you to claim.

Can you claim?

Common examples of accidents in a Sainsbury’s store are:
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Around the colder months of the year we see an increase in people making injury claims involving potholes. The reason for this is simple – potholes are commonly formed when water seeps in to cracks in the surface of roads and paths. Freezing conditions allow the cracks on the ground to expand and grow into what we know as a pothole.

So what happens if you’re walking along and you catch your foot on a pothole? Whether you fall or not, if you are injured due to stumbling or hitting the ground, or perhaps through twisting a part of your body, here is what you need to know about claiming for pothole compensation.
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As one of the largest UK supermarkets, we’re more than used to fighting for people who have been injured in accidents in a Morrison’s store – and with all the new local ones popping up we expect more people to be looking to claim!

So what happens if you have an accident in a Morrison’s store? Perhaps you have slipped on a hazard on the floor, or tripped over something in an aisle? Are you able to win a claim for personal injury compensation against a large company like Morrison’s?
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So what happens if you buy a chair and within a short period of time using it the chair breaks and causes an injury? Perhaps it collapses under you when using it, or tips over because a part breaks, falls off, or becomes loose?

The good news is that you should be covered by in important piece of legislation called Supply of Goods and Services Act 1982 which states that goods received by you, such as a chair, from a supplier should be:
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