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For an industrial accident to occur, often a victim must be employed in an industrial setting. However, an individual could also sustain personal injury from an industrial accident without being involved in that trade at all.
Many accidents, which take place in industrial work, are restricted by the boundaries of the work area and do not effect members of the public outside of a particular protective perimeter.
Yet, there are some times during which a dangerous job is being performed in the middle of a public area, such as a building site in a town centre, where passers-by are injured due to the negligence of a firm.
Often, the greatest dangers to people close to a building site are the large vehicles which enter or exit the site throughout a building project – but cranes can also pose a risk.
A crane is large and heavy enough to cause an individual serious damage, or even death, should part of it fall.
In the confines of a building site it might appear that people outside are safe from injury by a crane, but should the machine not have been fixed to the ground correctly it may fall and could land outside of the work boundary.
Similarly, if the company has not performed safety checks and maintenance on the crane, it could break, and, furthermore, if a load is not fixed correctly or is too heavy for the chains or hook to hold, it could fall outside of the building site onto cars or pedestrians.
Building contractors should make sure that all of their employees are trained in the use of any machinery and vehicles on site, and that maintenance is carried out on equipment regularly. This will not only reduce the risk of a work-related accident, but will lessen the possibility of a member of the public suffering injury too.
Failure to correctly train each member of staff, or proceed with regular safety and maintenance checks, will mean that a firm is liable for any work-related or personal injury resulting from their negligence and breach of work regulations.
Industrial accident compensation
If you have been injured in an industrial accident, whether or not you were employed by the company, you could claim for your pain, suffering and loss of earnings with our help.
Our solicitors are experts in their fields and have a great success rate. Plus our services are free, so call 0800 10 757 95, request a call back, or take a moment to fill in our short online claim form with a few basic details about your industrial accident case.
