Factories can become veritable death traps due to the size of machinery, the electrical voltage one has to work around, the different types of machines which may feature cutting, smashing or heating components, as well as the fact that one may need to work with toxic chemicals. Due to the inherent dangerous nature of factories, it is important that workers are equipped with Personal Protective Equipment or PPE in order to prevent any injuries from occurring, or lessening their severity.

Factory workers are covered under workers’ compensation insurance, but it is often insufficient should one sustain extensive injuries such as the loss of an arm, the development of cancer due to working around toxic chemicals and so on. In such instances, it is important to liaise with an attorney in order to safeguard your right to appropriate and comprehensive compensation which will take care of you and your family for years to come.

Injuries may lead to disability, and this may be either permanent or temporary. That said, knowing about your rights from a legal standpoint will enable you recover compensation that is in line with your injuries. For starters, injuries aren’t just flukes of nature that occur to the unlucky; it has been shown that human action or lack thereof is responsible for up to 90 percent of all injurious events, and legally, the concepts of liability and negligence come into play when it comes to determining who is at fault for your injuries, as well as the types of damages or compensation you are entitled to, something we would like to take a deep dive into via this post. 

Get Maximum Compensation with Top Factory Worker Injury Attorneys

Are you looking for the best factory worker injury attorney? Please call us NOW at 312-444-0214 to learn more about your legal options for justice and compensation. The experienced factory injury workers at McCready Law have over the last 25 years recovered hundreds of millions of dollars in compensation for thousands of individuals who were harmed by the negligent actions of other people or corporations, and we would like to extend the same legal assistance to you. We have nationwide reach, so give us a call wherever you are in the country, and our multilingual team (hablamos Español) will get to work at assessing your claim to determine its true value.

McCready Law best injured factory worker lawyers have extensive trial experience, something you would be hard pressed to find in most law firms. This is important as taking a case to trial, despite being expensive and time-consuming, will help you recover tens of times or even hundreds of times more compensation compared to insurance company negotiations, particularly if we believe you have compelling evidence.

We take on all cases on contingency fee basis, and what this means is that there are ZERO UPFRONT FEES as we will only charge you our fees at the end of the process, and only if we’ve successfully won your case. For more information on the true value of factory injury lawsuits, please give us a call NOW at 312-444-0214 to receive your 100% FREE legal consultation into your options for justice and compensation – our intake team is standing by. 

Types of Disability After a Factory Injury

These are the types of disabilities after a factory injury:

Temporary Disability

Temporary disability is something some injured factory workers may have to contend with due to the hazardous nature of their work. Temporary disability can also be classified of either short or long-term, where it may last a couple of weeks compared to months, and this is usually dependent on the type and severity of injury. For example, if you sprained your leg, you may need at the most a week of rest, but a broken arm could need multiple weeks or even months of rehabilitation and recovery. What is reassuring, however, about temporary disability is the fact that the one is able to return to their pre-injury capacity after recovery. 

That said, even temporary disability is a complex affair, and may necessitate immediate medical care where surgery may be carried out to prevent long-term effects. Physical therapy may also be needed in an ongoing manner, which can last weeks or even months, even after one has made a full recovery. Lastly, individuals who have suffered temporary disability due to factory injury may need to gradually return to work by way of modified duties so that they do not re-injure themselves, facilitating successful return to work. 

Temporary disability may be compensated by way of lost wages for the portion of their lost income they had to forego while recovering, as well as medical expenses which include things like surgeries, hospital stays, medications and so on. 

Permanent Disability

Sustaining a permanent disability due to your factory work injuries may be a life-changing affair as you may be looking at a life of limitations with regard to what you can do, as well as the reality of being unable to resume work at the capacity and position you were at prior to the injury. To begin with, it is important to understand that factory workers with permanent injuries may never fully regain their pre-injury capabilities, such as the case of an individual who suffered traumatic brain injury due to being hit in the head with a falling piece of metal at a factory floor. 

Determining whether an injury is permanent requires detailed tests and medical assessments in order to tease out the severity of the injury, and may require referrals to different specialists such as orthopedic surgeons, neurologists and so on. In addition, you may be required to see different doctors just to make sure their opinions regarding your injury are all unanimous. 

Given the permanent nature of this type of disability, workers are entitled to a higher tier of compensation which can include things like lifetime benefits which will cover rehabilitation costs, lost wages, medical expenses, the cost of at-home care, cost of retrofitting one’s house so it is disabled person friendly, and even a lump-sum payment which will be instrumental in taking care of the cost of any future medical expenses as well as loss of earning capacity. 

Best, Countrywide Injured Factory Worker Attorneys – Call Us Today!

Factory injuries can be life-changing and traumatic. Dealing with them on your own is inadvisable due to the complex nature of these cases and the fact that your employer or insurance company may try to downplay the event and get you to sign documents barring you from future litigation so they can financially protect themselves. To safeguard your future after suffering a factory worker injury, please give us a call NOW at 312-444-0214 to learn more about how we can help you recover maximum compensation as allowed by the law. Thanks for choosing McCready Law, and we look forward to helping you.