Loading Dock Injuries
A forklift operator can suffer major or catastrophic loading dock work injury or even death if he backs his forklift off of a loading dock. A “loading dock injury“ refers to an employee who while working in the course and scope of his employment injures himself in a way involving the loading dock. The number of ways an employee or worker can get injured around a loading dock is limitless. Another incident would involve the employee or worker being crushed between the loading dock and an 18 wheeler or tractor-trailer.
The employer could potentially be sued if it did not have workers compensation coverage or the employee or worked was wrongfully killed. Please see our pages regarding “workers compensation” and “non subscriber cases” to obtain more detailed information.
A forklift operator is especially vulnerable to grave injury or death if he or she is crushed by the forklift. If the forklift operator is working at or near a loading dock, the possibility of being crushed by the forklift is foreseeable.
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It is not unusual for loading dock accidents to result in traumatic brain injury “TBI”
Any traumatic brain injury case can be difficult to quantify. Brain damage as a result of an accident must be handled with extreme care by the attorney from a damages point of view.
A traumatic brain injury is different from a broken bone or a herniated disc. In order to determine the full extent of a brain injury, especially a severe brain injury requires the opinion of a brain surgeon, a neurologist, and possibly a neuropsychologist. Significant testing will be necessary to determine the full extent of the injury and the long term permanent damage. If the injury is significant enough, the injured worker may need total retraining for a new profession. A vocational expert and a Houston brain injury lawyer may become necessary.
The benefit of hiring Grossman Law Office Houston loading dock injury attorneys in these types of cases is that we have experience representing the victims of loading dock injury cases and injury relating to a traumatic brain injury. Our team of experts is the leaders of their respective fields. By involving the most credible experts across the country, the case will become more believable to the jury increasing the likelihood of success.