Were you injured as a result of slipping on a substance at work?
A “slip and fall” accident refers to an employee who has slipped and
fell on some object and became injured while working. An immediate
determination needs to made with regard to whether the employer has
workers compensation coverage or not. Please see our pages on “workers
compensation” and “non subscriber cases” to get more detailed
information on the importance of this issue.
It is important to the injured employee to fill out an accident report
with his or her employer. Make your supervisor aware of what happened
and what you fell in. Try to determine how long the substance had been
on the floor and whether other employees knew the substance was on the
floor and just decided not to clean it up in a timely manner.
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Go to the doctor immediately. If your slip-and-fall accident injury is severe enough, go to the emergency room. Do not wait to seek medical attention as the
insurance company will use this against you and argue “you must not have
been hurt that bad or you suffered the injury some other way”.
The benefit of hiring one of our slip and fall accident attorneys in these cases is that many
times the insurance company doesn’t believe that there is a connection
between the fall and the injury the employee is complaining about. We
can assist in showing the insurance co. or opposing attorney that the
two are related and that the injured employee needs to be compensated.