How to Claim Compensation for Workplace Injuries

by The Moscow Firm Lawyer

Accidents can occur anytime and anywhere no matter you are on the road, or at home or at your workplace?

An accident that occurred on a job is known as a workplace accident. These accidents may occur either due to your carelessness or because of unsafe work environments.

There are many types of workplace injuries that can occur including stressful injuries, repetitive injuries, and some illnesses. In the case of construction workers, the injuries may be due to falling objects or falling from height and the injuries will be traumatic.

Similar to most places around the world, there are many workplace accident cases encountered in West Chester.

If you got injured at your workplace, then your employer is supposed to bear the compensation amount. And to commence this process of attaining compensation from the employer you will need a Workplace Accident Attorney in West Chester.

As we all know, every legal action is a long term process and takes a huge amount of time. Similar to all the legal actions, this process of claim compensation also isn’t one-shot and requires a significant amount of time.

Here we’ll be discussing the steps undertaken in the claim compensation process.

 

·       Reporting  Of  Accident

Before claiming compensation for the workplace injury you have to report your employer for the occurred accident. As to make the reporting legal, you must hire a personal injury lawyer in West Chester and get the reporting done by his/her hands.  The reporting should be done to the employer as soon as possible after the occurrence of the accident.

For this, give your Medical Certificate and medical bills to your employer to claim medical leave wages.

Your employer is ought to report the accident if you have been hospitalized for at least 24 hours or are on the leave for more than 3 days.

·       Submitting the Claim Application

To commence any legal action, get your case notified by the Ministry of manpower. After acknowledging your case, the ministry will send you the case reference number with which you can take any legal action further. Your workplace accident attorney in West Chester can help you in this process.

·       Attend Every Medical Assesment         

Ensure that you attend every medical assessment; otherwise, it is possible that your claim might get suspended.

·       Get the Notice Of Assessment

The Ministry of Manpower will provide you and your employer the notice of assessment. This notice consists of the details of payable compensation by the employer.

Both parties have full rights to object for the Notice of Assessment within a few days.

Right to Work In a Safe Environment

Every employee has the right to working in a safe environment that consists of appropriate machinery and good-quality tools. It is the employer’s responsibility to provide a safe working environment for the employees that are working for him/her for the day and night.

Safety education and safety norms must be told to the employees for safeguarding themselves in case of danger at workplace.

In case you know someone who has undergone any workplace accident then recommend them to try the services of expert Workplace Accident Attorney at The Moscow Firm.

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Created on Oct 22nd 2019 04:31. Viewed 455 times.

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