Lifting and Carrying Injuries

Work Related Manual Handling Injury Compensation Claim Solicitors

If you have suffered a back injury, neck injury, sprain, hernia or other wrenching injury from lifting, carrying, pushing, pulling or supporting heavy objects at work, you may be entitled to make a no win no fee compensation claim.

Manual handling injuries are common but usually avoidable. If the job could have been done or assisted by mechanical means, if a less strenuous way of doing it could have been devised, if there had not been a suitable and sufficient risk assessment or you had insufficient training, assistance or information to include as to the weight of objects you may be able to claim compensation. Similarly, if the straining injury was caused by the neglect of a fellow employee, your employers and their insurers would be liable to pay compensation for your injuries and resultant losses.

Carrs Solicitors have over 18 years experience in winning work injury claims. We take all manual handling injury claims on a no win no fee basis and we will always give you 100% of your compensation .

Workers in warehouses, building sites, farms and factories as well as delivery drivers are particularly at risk for lifting injuries and carrying injuries; however, anybody may sustain a manual handling injury. For example, a warehouse employee who regularly stacks heavy boxes might sustain a hernia injury lifting heavy boxes onto shelves. A care worker could sustain a neck injury while helping a person with a disability into or out of the bath. A secretary might acquire a back injury while lifting and carrying heavy files around an office.

Lifting and carrying injuries can be the result of strain over time even where the injury itself occurs outside of work. If your back injury, neck injury or hernia occurred while bending or lifting at home but manual handling of heavy objects is part of your regular routine at work, you may still have a compensation claim. These cases are far more difficult to prove and you should use a solicitor who specialises in work injury claims and understands the strategies that insurers use to defend manual handling injury compensation claims and how to overcome them.

If you have a lifting or carrying injury which you believe may be the result of negligence on the part of your employers, call Carrs Solicitors today, including out of office hours, on 0800 587 0746 to arrange for a free consultation to establish whether you may have grounds for a successful manual handling injury compensation claim.

Home visits can be arranged within 24 hours notice. Alternatively you may wish to e-mail us and we will return to you promptly to advise you in relation to your lifting or carrying injury.