If you have suffered a chemical injury at work then you may be eligible for work place compensation. For a no obligation call, just leave your details in the box to the right, and one of our professional staff will contact you and help you work out if you can make chemical injury claims.

What are Chemical Injury Claims?

Chemical injury claims, are the claims for compensation that follow an industrial chemical accident or injury. Because work place and work environments can be dangerous when working around chemicals and other corrosive substances, it is imperative that safety be a main focus of each and every job.  When chemical injury occur the chemical injury claims help workers to receive medical treatment, compensation for lost work, and rehabilitation services.  Chemical injury claims are usually handled by a claims solicitor who work with chemical and industrial injuries.

What Causes Chemical injuries?

A chemical injury is caused anytime a chemical comes into contact with part of the human body.  Chemicals can be solid, liquid or gaseous.  This means that no one-part of the human body is not at risk for a chemical injury.  We breath in fumes and particles of chemicals constantly.

We can get chemicals on our skin that can be absorbed into our blood stream. Liquid chemicals can be splashed and cause damage to open areas of the body such as eyes and nasal passages.  Chemicals are very dangerous.  They are labeled accordingly so that emergency personal will know how to deal with them.

The primary cause of any chemical injury is negligence.  Employers are bound by the laws to make certain that employes can perform their job functions without risk of injury.  Businesses that work with chemicals are everywhere.  Even the exhaust from the copy machine is considered a chemical.

The ink in the ink cartridge is a chemical.  The fact is that chemicals are a part of our working day.  Sometimes the chemical is not so obvious.  Asbestos, for example, is a building material that has become a nightmare for workers, employers and the insurance industry.

Safety equipment, protective clothing, air circulation units, safety protocols and education are a few of the items that employers must provide to employees who may work in a chemically hazard area.

Can I Make a Chemical Injury Compensation Claim?

Chemical claims can be easier to prove as an industrial accident.  Each chemical has nearly a unique and independent reaction within the human body.  There are classes of chemicals that act similarly, and mechanism of injury helps to sort out potential chemical injuries.  A chemical injury compensation claim must be traced back to the work environment for the claim to be heard and potentially awarded.  This means that the mechanism of injury should be isolated.

Chemical injuries can be a single event, or they may build up over years of working in the same environment.  The symptoms of the injury can help to isolate the cause or chemical that has caused the injury.

This is where the chemical injury compensation claim process can get difficult.  Chemical injuries are not always cut and dry cases.  With injuries that happen over a period of time, several chemicals may be at fault.  The culprit also may be a chemical that was once used, but was replaced ten years ago.

The lasting effect of exposure to chemicals can be delayed reaction and delayed onset of symptoms.  Involving a claim solicitor can help to take the burden off of the victim.  Choosing a claim solicitor that is experienced in chemical injury claims can be very beneficial to the proving the claim.   This is half of the battle in filing a claim is being able to prove that the injury was work related.  If you suspect that you have a chemical injury, then do yourself a favor and discuss the claim with a solicitor.  They are legal professionals who can help to explain to you about the legal rights that are afforded you by the law.

In order to receive a free phone consultation that will assess whether or not you are eligible to file a chemical injury compensation claim, please fill in the form at the top right of this page and one of our solicitors will contact you.

How Much Can I Claim for Chemical Injury?

Making an estimate on what a chemical injury claim may be worth is pretty much impossible.  This is because the site of injury may be anywhere on the human body.  The site of injury may be internal or external, and the effects of the injury may be temporary or they may be permanent.

What we do know is that industrial injury’s have a compensation range that begins with ₤1000 and can reach as high as ₤2.5 million.  There are a great many individual factors that go in to determining how much a claim is worth.  In fact, there are two separate types of compensation that are usually awarded.  The general compensation award is for the injury itself.  This part of the compensation award is to help cover expenses and quality of living issues that a victim may have after suffering a chemical injury.

The second part of the compensation award is the special circumstance award and this award is designed to help pay for medical care and expenses that the victim may have incurred before industrial insurance began to help cover expenses.  The finer details of what may go into a compensation award are cumbersome.

This is the reason why it is important to discuss any potential claim with a claim solicitor.  There is a lot of compensation that can go unclaimed if the questions are not asked and forms are not filled out correctly.  If  you have suffered an injury, then the best advice that anyone can give you is to discuss your rights with a legal professional.  To have a claims solicitor that specialized in chemical injury compensation call you back, fill out the form at the top right of the screen.