Accidents at School

Injuries related to accidents at school can be associated with junior and high schools as well as nurseries, colleges and universities. If your child, or you as a student have been injured whilst on school or university grounds due to someone else’s negligence then you could be entitled to compensation.

Every year thousands of school children suffer personal injury whilst at school due to avoidable negligence. Some of the most common injuries that are associated with school accidents happen as a result of slips, trips or falls in the school grounds, defective classroom equipment such as chairs, desks and play time equipment found in the school playground. Children can also be injured due to incidents such as being exposed to asbestos within the school grounds that leads to asbestos related illness as well as being made to carry heavy objects without correct training or the right sort of equipment.

School accidents can also happen while sporting activities are being undertaken. Defective sports equipment or incorrect safety equipment could lead to serious personal injury should as head trauma or spinal cord damage. Then on top of this your child could end up suffering a form of food poisoning after consuming food from the school canteen.

Any of the above could have a serious affect on your child’s well being, causing them to suffer serious personal injury as a result of it. This personal injury could be anything from lacerations, fractured/broken bones and strain injuries through to major head and neck trauma, limb disorders or spinal cord damage. There are also certain aspects of personal injury that requires you to report them to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), these include:

• Fractures anywhere other than fingers and toes
• Amputation
• Dislocation of the shoulder, hip, knee or spine
• Loss of sight, temporary or permanent
• Injuries to the eyes
• Injury resulting from an electric shock or burn
• Acute illness requiring medical treatment
• Loss of consciousness

All of these must be reported under the injuries, diseases and dangerous occurrences regulations.

Schools have a well defined obligation to care for children; they need to provide a safe and danger free environment, which is why when a serious accident happens within the school grounds, the HSE have to be informed.

Sometimes an incident that grounds is just merely an accident, with no one to blame but there are instances in which your child ends up suffering due to the neglect to someone else. In cases where this is the case you could be entitled to claim for compensation.

Here at Accident Consultant we are experts in personal injury compensation claims. We work on a no win no fee basis meaning that in a successful case you keep 100% of the money that you are awarded.

If your child has been injured at school due to the negligence of someone else there are certain steps that should be taken to ensure your claim has the chance of becoming a success. You should make a note of any witnesses to the accident, report the accident to your child’s teacher, ensure that the accident is recorded in the schools accident book and if possible take photographs of the accident scene, highlight the defective or reason behind the accident occurring. All of these things will help your accident claim become a success.

If you would like more information about claiming compensation after your child had an accident at school then visit our main siteAccident Consultant.

Alternatively if you would like to get a personal injury, school accident claim underway then call us today on 08081 68 69 70 or fill in our online claim form to the right of this page.