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Most Common Work Injuries & What to Do if You’re Suffering from One

While there is a downward trend in workplace injuries due to the increased health and safety measures, it isn’t down to zero yet. Many people still suffer from workplace injuries that force them to take a temporary or permanent break from work.

After seeking medical advice for your injuries, you should get legal advice on what your next steps should be. This article highlights some of the most common workplace injuries and what you should do if you suffer from one.

1.   Falls and Slips

Slips and falls are among the most common workplace accidents and are the leading cause of worker’s compensation claims. Slips and falls can occur during many circumstances, including:

  • Slipping on an oily, icy, or wet floor
  • Tripping due to uncovered holes, low lighting, or debris
  • Falling from skyscraper construction zones, rooftops, or ladders

Businesses should follow OSHA’s (Occupational Safety and Health Association) fall protection rules to ensure that their employees aren’t harmed on the job. If you’re injured on business premises that don’t meet the required safety standards, you should consult an attorney to file for compensation.

2.   Over-Stressing and Exertion

Overexertion injuries, such as muscular strains and RSI (repetitive strain injury), can result in long-term chronic discomfort and productivity loss. This sort of workplace injury is caused by:

  • Wrong lifting method
  • Lifting large items by hand
  • No breaks from repetitive work
  • Working on a collapsing structure
  • Carrying, lifting, throwing, and pushing
  • Microtasks in a factory
  • Working on a computer without proper ergonomics

Your organization should provide mandatory instruction on executing physical tasks healthily without straining your muscles. If they don’t, you can follow OSHA’s ergonomics guidelines. In addition, to minimize overexertion and long-term bodily injury, make sure you take frequent pauses and use that time to relax and stretch.

However, if you’ve already faced an extreme level of such injury, you can plan your recovery and look for ways to file a lawsuit against the organization for inadequate safety and rest measures.

3.   Struck by Equipment

Walking into a sharp edge of a counter or hitting your head against low-hanging equipment is pretty serious. Being struck by equipment can lead to severe hand injuries, amputations, stress fractures, traumatic head injuries, mental trauma, etc.,

You can get  injuries from equipment when:

  • Machinery is improperly protected
  • Wires & cables are tangles
  • Tools and small machinery are left lying around, and you trip over them
  • There’s excessive vibration from machinery.

Talk to an attorney to learn how you can charge for compensation, even for minor fractures, and not just amputations of body parts.

Workplace injuries aren’t an uncommon sight, but if you’re injured due to negligence from your employer, you deserve to be compensated for your troubles. To ensure that you receive just compensation for your workers’ compensation claim, you require an experienced attorney who will be by your side until the claim gets approved. We at Regas & Haag Ltd specialize in handling workers’ compensation claims in Ohio and can offer comprehensive legal assistance that you may need for workers’ insurance claims. Contact us through our website or call us at 330-649-9102.