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.

I have used the United States legal term “Slip and Fall” for this example, as it wouldn’t make sense to use “slip and trip compensation claim” since that would cover two types of accidents. Collectively, “Slips and trips” are the most common of workplace hazards here in the UK, with the HSE reporting that these accidents make up for a third of all major injuries with thousands of workers suffering due to a slip or trip each year. HSE note that chefs, kitchen assistants and waiting staff tend to be the most affected occupations from slips and trips, which is the reason why a chef was used as the example today. It is fully understandable as well, with the thought of food and water spillages, hot oil, trip hazards from loose stock and so on. Chefs tend to be rushed, working long hours and so the accidents that occur are not surprising.

Slips, trips and falls can cause various types of injuries. With this chef slip and fall claim, I found a specific example on the HSE site whereby a chef working in a hotel had slipped and suffered severe arm burns from hot oil. He slipped when carrying a box of potato peelings and when trying to steady himself plunged his arm into the oil from a deep fat fryer. The pictures of these burns (attached) on his arms weren’t pleasant and some oil had even splashed on his face. Surgery was required and this chef was off for five months. Negligence was proven due to a problem with water pooling across the floor. With burn injury compensation amounts, there isn’t much coverage of these injury types on the compensation claim calculators online. I would expect though a minor burn claim to be around £3000 and moderate burn compensation to head up to around £10,000. I’d imagine that severe burn claims could head all the way up to £60,000 in extreme cases whereby a female chef has received severe facial burns and scarring (women receive more compensation than men for scarring accidents).