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Every year in the UK personal injury compensation claims will be made for accidents involving telegraph poles.
Telegraph pole accidents can vary in their nature and may involve either members of the public or specialists who work on their installation and maintenance.
Workplace accidents involving telegraph poles
Injuries caused by this kind of accident will usually involve workers who fall from height or suffer electrocution while performing inspection work or repairs.
The case of one worker who made a UK personal injury compensation claim of £200,000 in 2008 after he sustained multiple injuries in a telegraph pole-related fall from height demonstrates how devastating the impact of such an accident can be. Not only was he lucky to escape with fractured vertebrae and a head injury, but he lost his job as well. "That fall lost me a job I'd held for 32 years,” he said.
Tragically, electrocution work accidents involving telegraph poles are invariably fatal. For example, in 2003 a 30-year-old worker suffered fatal injuries when the mobile working platform he was on came into contact with live wires. He died instantly.
Telegraph pole accidents involving the public
Sometimes these may involve cases of telegraph poles becoming destabilised and falling onto members of the public, or their homes or vehicles.
More commonly they will involve cases of motorists who collide with telegraph poles. In such cases, unless it can be proved that the positioning of the pole was inherently unsafe, it is unlike that compensation can be claimed. However, if some other negligent act, such as a road defect or the driving of another motorist caused the accident, a no win, no fee solicitor might be able to mount a strong argument for compensation.
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Here at YouClaim, we have no win, no fee solicitors on our panel specialising in a variety of forms of litigation.
We have a strong track record of securing compensation for people injured as a result of work accidents, car accidents, motorbike accidents, holiday accidents, product liability defects and cases of clinical negligence.
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