Please Note:

This accident at work site has been devised to provide mere guidance on various personal injury topics. It is always recommended to seek professional legal advice from an experienced solicitor.

The HSE reported that the most fatal work injuries took place in the construction industry. With non-fatal injuries, construction was still relatively high in third spot. There are a couple million construction workers here in the UK and it is known as one of the most hazardous environments to work in and so you would always expect the incident counts to be very high in this industry. The most common problem for the construction worker has always been scaffolding accidents and scaffolds are used on most building sites. Scaffolding compensation claims will always be of high value since the injuries tend to be significant (if not fatal). Some common scaffolding accident causes could include insecure bracing, use of shoddy construction materials or perhaps a lack of attention to the required safety procedures. Quality management and training will always minimise these risks.

One of the major problems with scaffolding accidents is that teams of workers are pushed to meet strict demands with the scaffolding having to go up fast and the work also having to be carried out with the same emphasis on speed. With working on dangerous structures and working at heights, you can just imagine the number of incidents mounting up. In fact, several thousand construction workers each year are injured from trips and slips leading to fractured bones or dislocated joints. A major concern would always be a fall from a great height and the injuries sustained in this instance can be extremely severe, with head injuries and spinal injuries in particular being common. A student was actually awarded £2.4m after a factory fork lift truck fell on him leaving him paraplegic (this is a severe spinal cord injury). Scaffolding compensation claims are very popular today and due to the high statisitics, it is fortunately easy to find a solicitor that has valued experience and expertise in this field. Head injury compensation and spinal injury compensation amounts can certainly be high, specifically spinal injuries.