Making your accident claim

You may be entitled to claim compensation from your employer if you are injured in a work-related injury or suffer ill health as a result of the job you do (see Industrial disease pages). Not every incident is claimable.

You must be able to prove it is more likely than not that:
  1. You have suffered a personal injury
  2. Your employers failed in their legal duty of care towards you.
  3. Your personal injury was caused by your employer's failure, and not by some other factor, such as an underlying medical condition.
  4. It was foreseeable, based on information available at the time, which the failure would lead to your injury.
  5. If all the above are proven (on the balance of probability) then compensation may be available for the pain and suffering cause by the injury your financial losses and expenses resulting from the injury.
If you want to initiate a claim you must do so within three years of the accident taking place or of your becoming aware that you were suffering ill health caused, or made worse, by your job.
 
It is always advisable to take advice on making a claim as early as possible so that evidence can be preserved, witnesses contacted, photographs taken and detailed medical advice sought.  Please complete our quick work claim form. 

More help making a claim

Useful Injury Claim Resources

Information about some of the more common types of  claim are contained within the following sections: