Types Of Workplace Accidents and Injuries

Workers’ compensation benefits provide medical benefits and wage replacement to employees who are hurt while working on the job or are diagnosed with any occupational illness. It is natural to believe that workplace injuries can happen in high-risk professions like construction or factory work. Each kind of injury can occur in the workplace. Such injuries can cost both the employer as well as the employee valuable time and money. A work accident lawyer helps you in handling your case and providing you the best compensation benefits.

When a worker suffers a life-changing injury, at such time getting the fair and full amount of workers’ compensation benefits possible is highly essential. A work accident lawyer can help you make sure that the workers’ compensation claims are submitted on time as well as with the strong evidence required to secure the highest benefits. Below is the list of common workplace accidents.

Slips, trips, and falls:-

Slips, trips, and falls are some of the most common causes of workers’ compensation claims. It is just like slipping on a banana peel. They can be deadly despite whether a worker will fall from a great height like from a roof or scaffolding, or can be from a slippery flat road or floor. The injuries from slips, trips, and falls normally consist of neck injuries, broken bones, fractures, hand or wrist injuries, ankle injuries, sprains, and brain injuries. Such injuries sustained can vary in severity and accidents can occur in any kind of work environment. If you got injured while working as the result of a slip, trip, and fall, or other kinds of accident, then you may be entitled to workers’ compensation or Social Security disability in the form of monetary support. They can be the main culprit behind problems like muscle strains and other injuries.

Repetitive stress or motions:-

Repetitive Stress Injuries are one of the fastest-growing types of workplace injury. there are several jobs that involve performing tasks that include repetitive motions. These are the type of injuries that could even eventually permanently damage the ability of a worker to perform his or her job. With repetitive work, some short breaks are highly essential, otherwise, the work may ultimately result in wear and tear on the body. These injuries have a great impact on various types of workers, from Typists, painters, regular computer users who face carpal tunnel syndrome to auto mechanics who suffer chronic back pain. One can receive workers’ compensation benefits for covering any medical costs and physical therapy linked with treatment.

Overexertion:-

Overexertion generally results because of lifting, carrying, pulling, and pushing heavy objects. This further results in musculoskeletal disorders like strains, and sprains in the back. Such kinds of work injuries contribute to a great loss of productivity as well as to millions in yearly health benefit payout costs. These injuries occur due to the activities that we do all the time, like carrying heavy equipment, pulling a bookcase, lift awkward boxes, etc.

Vehicle accidents:-

Vehicle accidents are a leading cause of workplace injuries & death. Some crashes occur right in the workplace, while others occur offsite. It is highly complicated to determine that either the worker injury is eligible for workers’ compensation after an auto accident or not. At such time a good compensation lawyer help in knowing the fact and providing the compensation benefit to the worker. Accidents resulting in crash or impact injuries also can have seriously nasty consequences. These injuries & accidents include being struck by objects falling from a vehicle, or run over by any moving vehicle, and falling from a vehicle. Avoiding such types of accidents starts with knowing that who is at risk, as well as how, when, and where these accidents generally occur.

Even though there is no shortage of methods workers can injure themselves while working, all that employers can do is providing clear signage, good training, and access to the necessary safety equipment, for preventing their employees from coming to any avoidable harm.

At the law firm of Godwin and Rubin in Van Nuys, California, we help injured workers and their families get the benefits they need and deserve after they have been injured at work.