Forklift Accident Claim

A forklift injury claim is when you seek compensation for the damages you suffer due to a forklift truck accident. The claim includes the damages directly from the injury and from the financial effects on your life.

The medical costs of an injury can be high, and the more significant the injury, the higher the medical costs might be. You may also need compensation for all time off work to cover loss of earnings, now and into the future as well as possibly making adaptations to your home and car where the injuries deem that necessary and reasonable.

The Health and Safety at work act 1974 protects workers in the event of injury. If you are the victim of a breach of this act, you may be entitled to a compensation claim.

A No Win No Fee personal injury solicitor seeks the compensation you are entitled to in a forklift accident claim.

You may still make a forklift injury claim even if you are partly at fault for the accident.  A personal injury claim can only be made against someone at fault, and at least partly to blame for the accident. 

Split liability or contributory negligence allows you to seek compensation in cases where you are partly at fault for the forklift truck accident. There are often conflicting versions of what happened, and you should get legal advice before deciding on your claim.

If you were fully at fault for a forklift injury, you probably cannot make a claim for personal injury but, it is always worth enquiring with experts to be sure. 

A No Win No Fee personal injury solicitor will advise and guide you through making your forklift accident claim.

Common forklift accident claims range from lack of training to collisions and being hit by falling objects.

The common forklift accident injury claims are:

Collisions with other vehicles happen in a busy warehouse or an unsupervised yard. The forklift may hit a car or another forklift when moving goods, and the driver is injured in the collision.

A forklift can also collide with walls and shelving in a poorly designed warehouse or when the forklift is packed with too many goods.

You may claim for the negligence of others in hitting your forklift and the damages you suffer in the collision.

The forklift toppling over happens when the lift is packed with too many boxes or pallets, and the truck overturns. It can happen when the forklift driver is under pressure or inexperienced at handling the forklift. 

Forklifts can also topple over when going around corners or if they hit a wall or stack of shelving.

Lack of forklift training is not unusual in busy warehouses or where an employer is negligent in their duty of care. Forklift drivers must be fully aware of how to use the forklift and how to drive one safely. 

Full training must be given to new and experienced drivers of forklifts. They should also receive updated training and undergo courses on Health and Safety protocols regularly.

Lack of forklift maintenance is a common source of forklift injury claims. The brakes on a poorly maintained forklift can fail, loose steering will cause it to crash, or the lift mechanism might fail and cause serious injury.

It is the duty of care of an employer to maintain the forklift so that it is always in a safe condition, and to fail in that duty of care might constitute workplace negligence.

Being hit by a forklift often results in broken limbs, spinal damage or  head injury. Collisions can be due to inexperienced drivers, poorly maintained forklifts or lack of safety procedures in the warehouse.

The forklift may hit a fellow employee, a pedestrian, another vehicle or a visitor onsite, but if the collision is due to negligence, you might have a forklift accident claim.

Being hit by objects falling from a forklift truck might be negligence by the warehouse owner. The boxes or pallets may not be secured properly and fall on an employee or visitor, causing injury. You can be injured, too, when the lift mechanism fails, and the forklift spills its cargo.

You may be able to claim personal injury compensation when injured by an object falling from a forklift.

You can claim compensation for a forklift accident amounts in the £10,000s to awards of more than £1m. The amount you seek is for the personal injury and for the financial damages incurred in lost income, adaptions to your home and all other costs.

If someone else is responsible for your personal injury, you can claim compensation from their insurance company.

Sample compensation amounts in a personal injury claim are as follows. Please note these are figures for the injuries only, and financial losses would apply in addition.

(The figures given here are for General Damages amounts only. You will also receive compensation for any financial losses you suffer due to the personal injury. Figures are taken from Judicial College Guidelines 16th Edition and are accurate as of April 2023.)

There is not one fixed amount in personal injury claims. The circumstances differ from person to person and claim to claim, and the amount of compensation awarded will be tailored to the circumstances of your claim.  

A No Win No Fee personal injury solicitor can give you an idea of what to expect from their experience in compensation claims.

No, you cannot lose your job for a workplace injury claim due to a forklift Injury. If you are injured in a forklift accident, and it was not your fault, then you may have a right to make a workplace injury claim.

The employer cannot threaten you with dismissal or not treat you the same as other employees in the future.

They have a duty of care to all employees, including providing a safe working environment with full risk assessment.

To make a claim for personal injury compensation, there are usually a few standard steps to follow. We will guide you through the entire process from first contact through to the conclusion of your claim.

If you have been the victim of a forklift accident while at work, you may be entitled to make a compensation claim for damages. The first step in making a claim for personal injury is getting in contact with The Personal Injury Team. Our team of workplace injury solicitors will make your claim process as easy and stress free as possible.

To prove your claim for forklift injury compensation, you will need evidence to show how and where the injury happened. Some evidence you may be able to gather at the time of the accident, and other evidence may need to be gathered later.

To help prove your claim for personal injury, you need to:

Evidence can form a key part of your forklift accident claim and may even speed the process for your personal injury solicitor when seeking compensation.

Your No Win No Fee personal injury solicitor will use the evidence as part of your forklift accident personal injury claim.

If you have been the victim of a forklift accident in the workplace, you may be entitled to compensation.

Speak with the Personal Injury Teams No Win No Fee Solicitor today for a FREE claim assessment and find out how much you could claim today.

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