Advice needed injured through work!

starrystarry

Ha ha. Busted!! :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

odollybird

anihilator

it you read the first post correcttly it states that i am 38 and for your information i am 10 stone 1 , 5ft 4 tall so i am not overweight as you think i have never ever smoked and i am most certainly not trying to get cash out of my employers it's just somebody was talking to me about it and just put the thought in my head and thought i would get some advice from here and not be pulled down like something in the gutter !

jdturk

odollybird wrote: »

anihilator

it you read the first post correcttly it states that i am 38 and for your information i am 10 stone 1 , 5ft 4 tall so i am not overweight as you think i have never ever smoked and i am most certainly not trying to get cash out of my employers it's just somebody was talking to me about it and just put the thought in my head and thought i would get some advice from here and not be pulled down like something in the gutter !

Even though I don't agree with it my advice would be go and see one of these injury lawyers and get their opinion on your chances, if they feel you have a case they will take it on, if not they won't

odollybird

yes my employer did know about my back the first time i was off as it was put down on the paper they had to fill in for my reason for being off, and secondly
even when i returned to work there was no assessment's carried out. i feel that my health was ok before i started this job and just seem to have gone down hill since doing this job , but it could just be that it was my outer part of the disc that was weakend. i was only pondering about it and not going in to it with all guns blazing as it happend 14 months ago and i had not thought about it till i was listning to the person that told me about claiming . so would you have thought i would have done this soon after it if i was in for the money

odollybird

thanks jdturk,
thats only the sort of comments i was expecting

odollybird

and as i said i wasn't even bothered about it all at all

ohreally

This is definitely one for your trade union, raise with them in the first instance for their legal officer to assess the case.

odollybird

i wasn't in the union sorry

ckerrd

Did you receive training in your job as to how to carry it out?
Where there generic risk assessments available for you to see?

Did your doctors diagnose the cause of the injury?

Where you signed off sick from work when you were taken into hospital?

tanith

Did you put it in the accident book when you first hurt yourself? You have to prove an 'incident' that caused you to hurt your back, otherwise its just a 'wear and tear' problem that is just bad luck... I went down this road and its impossible to prove the 'bad back' was caused by the job unless there are specifics and they were recorded at the time...