Work Injuries - Articles
Scaffolder Sues Employer - Seeking Damages For Serious Knee injury
Our client is a Kiwi who has worked as a scaffolder since his arrival from across the ditch thirty five years ago.
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Do I Need A Workers Compensation Lawyer?
If you've been injured at work, you may be eligible for workers compensation. In NSW, employers are required to have workers compensation insurance to cover their employees.
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Is a Noisy Working Environment Causing You Hearing Difficulties?
Industrial deafness is an induced hearing loss caused from prolonged exposure to noisy work environments. A range of symptoms could occur, from diminished hearing in one or both ears to temporary or permanent loss of hea...
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Are Work injury Damages and Workers Compensation Claims the Same Thing?
Getting injured at work can be traumatic and have a lasting impact. How do you know if you satisfy the eligibility criteria to claim compensation?
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Worker Receives Settlement After Suffering a Severe Eye injury That Could Have Been Prevented
Our client was a formworker. He was working on the renovation of a building on the south coast. His job entailed working at heights using hammers to nail timbers, crowbars and circular saws. It is dangerous hard work but...
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Workers Compensation - Skin Cancer
Many workers in NSW spend long hours outdoors, making them vulnerable to sun exposure, which can lead to skin cancer. If you develop skin cancer due to work-related sun exposure, you may be entitled to Workers' Compensation—even if the cancer develops years after exposure or if other non-work-related sun exposure occurred.
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Diver Electrocuted - Taylor & Scott Fight to Have Workers Compensation insurer Pay For Needed Surgery
Our client had always worked in construction. He also had a passion for diving. Eventually, he secured employment with a dive company that specialised in underwater construction.
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Lifetime of Labouring Results in Three Compensation Claims
Our client worked in the construction industry all of his working life. He usually worked around sixty hours per week. Over the last fifteen years, he had suffered a number of injuries and noticed that his physical condition was deteriorating. In the early 2000s, he injured his knee.
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Working Near Jackhammers Leads to Eye injury & Compensation Payout
Our client was an older labourer who had migrated to Australia in the 80s. For several years prior to his accident, he had worked as a construction labourer on various building sites in & around Sydney. He worked har...
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Refractory Bricklayer's Work Leads to Work injury Damages Settlement
Our client had spent twenty years working as a refractory trades assistant. This was hard, hot, dirty work. It was very heavy. It required working inside furnaces, demolishing, rebuilding and relining furnaces, kilns and...
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Formworker Wins Substantial Damages After Being Hit by a Load on a Crane
Our client was a hardworking man with a wife and young family. He lived away from Sydney but travelled to Sydney six days a week to carry out his duties as a formworker.
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