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We represent specialist personal injury solicitors from across the United Kingdom who offer free legal advice regarding construction accident claims. We can offer the no win no fee scheme and the assurance that you will not be required to fund your claim or pay expenses as it proceeds. There are no risks or costs and any compensation you win will be paid to you in full without deduction or charge. Submit your details and an experienced lawyer who specialises in personal injury will call you with free advice. As a sign of their quality all of our solicitors are members of the Law Society panel of personal injury experts.

Statistics show that workers in the building trade are six times more likely to be involved in a fatality than are workers from almost any other industry. Each week, two people are killed on building sites. Many of these accidents could have been prevented if sensible safety precautions had been taken by employers. Of all workplace deaths in Britain, those in construction account for a third. Three-quarters of accidents result from a fall, collisions among building site vehicles, or from being hit by a falling object. We can help you make construction acident claims for compensation for personal injury provided that the incident involves negligence.

It is a legal requirement that employers should act to minimise their employees' risk of injury and take reasonable care of their health and safety. As an employee, you should be provided with competent colleagues and safe and effective materials, equipment, work procedures and systems, accompanied by good training and supervision. Legislation imposes rigid requirements to help minimise injury in construction, and employers must provide:-

• mechanisms to avoid falls through fragile materials
• safe design of scaffolding and competent supervision of its erection
• building site with safe access
• stringent protection against falls greater than 2 metres
• equipment to prevent falls
• full training on the safe and effective use of ladders
• equipment to protect from falling objects on-site
• safe storage for construction equipment and building materials

There are also ways that an employee can help ensure that effective construction accident claims can be made against the employer:-

• immediately after an accident persononally enter details into the employer's accident book
• ask witnesses for their names and contact details
• photograph the scene of the accident
• write down, in detail, the details of the incident and the events preceding it
• photograph the buildings, vehicles and machinery, involved in the incident
• photograph visible injuries
• See a doctor as soon as possible so that the injury and its symptoms are medically evaluated and recorded

If you have been injured in an accident within the last three years, do yourself justice and use the helpline or complete the contact form and we will immediately put you in touch with a specialist solicitor. If after talking to that solicitor you decide to proceed no further you will not be charged for any advice.