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Faulty Equipment
Let our experienced team help you to claim for the accident you have suffered at work
- Accident at work
- Suffered injury
- Accident involving faulty equipment
- Loss of income
- Unable to return to work
- Family are affected
Most jobs, manual or otherwise, involve working with equipment to some level. Some of this equipment, if not handled properly can be very dangerous. If you have been injured as the result of faulty equipment at work then our legal experts at the Claim Zone can help you to make a claim to receive compensation. You are entitled to make a claim if you were:
- Burnt by leaking chemicals
- Exposed to hazardous chemicals
- Crushed by dangerous vehicles
- Electrically shocked by cables
- Involved in a fall from a height
Employers have a responsibility to ensure your safety at work
Employers have a responsibility to ensure that all Equipment is tested regularly to make sure it is safe and employees need to be trained to use it properly. An accident could leave you needing to take time off work causing you to struggle financially. Your injury may require you to need surgery resulting in a period of rehabilitation forcing you to be reliant on others. You shouldn’t worry about taking legal action against your employer, they will be covered by insurance and by making a claim you could help reduce the risk of similar accidents happening in the future
Simple, no fuss advice from the experts
Our specialist team will provide the necessary support to help you through what may be a difficult time. You’ll receive 100% of the compensation and you won’t have to pay a single penny for our services as we work on a No Win No Fee basis. Simply fill in our expressclaim form and one of our expert advisers will be in touch or if you prefer you can talk directly to someone now by calling our 24hr Claim Zone helpline on 0800 122 3130, or request a call back – your claim will be dealt with immediately either way.
A high percentage of the injury claims we are asked to investigate end up coming down to one thing and one thing alone, faulty or defective equipment. ‘Equipment’ is a very broad term and can refer to just about anything you use as part of your job ranging from JCB earth excavators right the way down the plain old pair of scissors.
Think about the job you do for a minute or two and try to think of all of the tools, devices, aides, machines, products and other pieces of equipment you use on a daily basis – often we don’t realise just how much equipment, and just what could happen if it were to go wrong, we rely upon every single day until we stop and actually give it some thought.
Remember faulty equipment doesn’t actually mean that the item in question isn’t working, it means that it isn’t working properly or as it should do. To illustrate by way of an example, take something as simple as a door in a department store or other large shop. Most such doors are fitted with devices to stop them from slamming shut by slowing down the rate at which they close when you let go of them. If this anti slam device fails and as a result you get your hand caught in the door then you may be able to claim against the store as their equipment was faulty even though the door itself is still in working order i.e you can still go in and out of it.
The same principle applies in your workplace, if a piece of equipment is still being used but it isn’t operating as it should you may have a claim if it causes an injury.
Sadly we read stories all too often in the press about the most serious examples of faulty equipment such as guards failing to protect the operators of industrial machines or brakes failing on vehicles and the worst part about it is that a lot of the time such injuries could have been avoided. In a number of such incidents witnesses make comments along the lines of ‘it was an accident waiting to happen’ and make reference to previous minor accidents that have happened but no one ever did anything about it. If you have suffered an injury, even if it may seem minor, by bringing a claim you could be bringing it to the attention of the person or persons responsible and hopefully forcing them to take action to stop it happening again.
