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The recycling industry is one that has grown enormously as general awareness that caring for our planet is a good thing. It may therefore be expected that the risk of a work accident has also risen alongside that growth, but figures released in 2009 tell a different story.
The Health and Safety Executive has taken the number of reportable work injury cases that have been submitted to its staff under the RIDDOR requirements, divided it by the number of employees working in the waste and recycling industry, and come to a figure that shows the relative risk of an accident at work in this sphere - and they show a general decline since a peak in 2003-4.
While this is a good sign that work injury cases are reducing, it is likely to be little consolation to those people who fall on the wrong side of the risk percentages; the 2009 figures show that there have been more than 4000 cases every year since 2002. Each of these cases represents a person who has suffered a personal injury, and who may be eligible to make a compensation claim if the reason for their injury implicates negligent management.
An HSE spokesperson acknowledged this, saying " "There is a long way to go but I am confident we will continue to see far fewer workers killed or injured with the positive lead from the Waste Industry Safety and Health Forum."
One example where a successful compensation claim was brought can be found in a Scottish news story released in the same week as the HSE figures, featuring a man who suffered a fall from height while working in a recycling plant. His no win, no fee lawyer secured a £15,000 payment in settlement of his losses and future reduction in income.
Claiming compensation for work accidents
If you have suffered personal injury as a result of an accident in the workplace, from recycling plants to metropolitan offices, and you believe that your employer may be at least in part to blame, you may well benefit from talking to the no win no fee experts at YouClaim.
Our free-to-client payment model means you can rely on your work accident claim costing you nothing - not our fees, not your opponents' fees, not the costs and disbursements that arise as the case goes on. And we do this without skimping on the quality - every no win, no fee lawyer on our lists is governed by the Solicitors Regulation Authority.
If you want to discuss the ways we can help you with your work accident case, you can do so in several ways - our echat window will let you talk with one of our team online, our claim form will let you give us the details that will let us call you back, or you can simply call one of our personal injury experts on 0800 10 757 95.
