Injuring your ankle at work can lead to weeks, months, or even years of inconvenience. Even if your injury is treated, not all ankle injuries fully recover. In more serious cases, you could be left with an ongoing disability that makes it difficult to stand for long periods or walk over uneven ground. This can have a dramatic effect on your ability to work or continue with hobbies or daily activities.

In this guide, we’ll look at how much compensation for an ankle injury at work might be awarded, and how the process of making a claim works. It’s certainly worth considering a claim if your employer’s negligence has caused your injuries because the settlement could go some way to make living with your injuries a bit easier.

If you’d like to claim compensation for an ankle injury at work, we are here to help. Our team will review your case and provide free legal advice about your options. If your claim appears to have some chance of success, we could ask one of our personal injury solicitors to review it further. If they decide to act on your behalf, they’ll offer a No Win No Fee service. As a result, you’ll only pay for their work if compensation is awarded.

We’re ready to help right away so why not call us on 0800 6524 881 to discuss your case today? Alternatively, to learn more about how much compensation for an ankle injury at work could be paid, please read on.

Am I Eligible To Claim Compensation For An Ankle Injury At Work?

Firstly, it’s important to state that you are legally allowed to claim compensation against your employer. If they were negligent and caused your ankle injury, you cannot be sacked, demoted, singled out, or treated differently because you’re making a claim.

To check if you could be entitled to claim compensation for your injured ankle, see how you answer the following questions:

• Did your employer breach their legal duty of care towards your wellbeing and cause an accident to occur?
• Was your ankle injured as a result?
• Did the incident happen within the last 3-years?

If you’ve answered yes to all three questions, we could help you seek compensation. How much compensation for an ankle injury at work you would receive would be based primarily on how serious your injury was. We’ll look at how this is assessed later on.

What Workplace Ankle Injuries Could Be Claimed For?

No workplace will be truly free from risks. That said, your employer must do all they can to reduce risks to health and safety whilst you are working. This is called their duty of care. If they are negligent and breach their duty of care, and you injure your ankle at work during a resulting accident, you could claim compensation for:

• A fractured or broken ankle.
• A sprained ankle at work.
• A dislocated ankle.
• Injury to the Achilles tendon.
• Other soft-tissue ankle injuries.

Strains and sprains of the ankle are common and can take anywhere between 2-weeks to 2-months to heal properly. Whilst they might not cause long-term issues, ankle sprains and strains can cause short-term financial issues which compensation can help deal with.

Evidence For Ankle Injury At Work Compensation Claims

To prove why your employer caused your accident and your injured ankle, you will require evidence. The types of resources you could use include:

• Accident reports. Employers are legally obliged to record incidents in an accident report book. You should obtain a copy of your report because it makes it easy to prove when and where the accident took place.
• Medical records. You should always have your ankle injury assessed professionally. Whether this is by your GP, at a hospital, or in a minor injuries unit, medical records will be filed that explain what injuries you were treated for.
• Witness details. If a work colleague saw your accident happen, keep a note of their contact details. Where your employer denies liability for the accident, a witness statement could help to clarify what happened.
• Where possible, you should use your phone to take pictures of the accident scene. Try to capture the cause of the incident before it’s repaired or removed from the scene.
• Camera footage. If your employer uses CCTV cameras, ask for footage of any that cover the area where the accident happened. Act quickly here because recordings can be deleted quite quickly.

To ascertain whether you’ve got enough evidence to claim compensation for an ankle injury at work, please get in touch. A claims advisor will review what you’ve got so far and explain your options.

Types Of Accidents That Could Result In An Ankle Injury At Work

The Health and Safety Act 1974 means employers should take steps to protect your welfare whilst at work. This means taking steps to try and reduce risks. They include:

• Conducting regular risk assessments.
• Offering staff proper health and safety training.
• Providing PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) where required.
• Having an up to date health and safety policy.
• Allowing staff adequate rest breaks.
• Maintaining and repairing workplace equipment and machinery.

If they fail to uphold their legal obligations, you could be compensated for any injuries that result. Examples of accidents at work that could lead to compensation for an ankle injury include:

• Spraining your ankle after falling down a set of stairs because of a loose carpet.
• Having your ankle crushed after an accident with a forklift truck that was driving too fast.
• If items have fallen onto your ankle because they were stacked incorrectly or because shelving was damaged.
• Where you slip at work and strain your ankle because of cleaners not using wet floor warning signs.

Whatever type of accident you’ve had, if your employer’s negligence caused it in some way we could help you claim. To find out how much compensation for an ankle injury at work might apply in your case, please call today.

How Much Compensation For An Ankle Injury At Work?

If you decide to take action against your employer, you won’t simply ask them to pay a set amount of compensation. Instead, you’ll base how much compensation for an ankle injury at work to claim for on two different heads of loss:

• General damages are the part of your claim where you’ll ask for your pain, suffering, and loss of amenity to be compensated. Loss of amenity is explained here.
• Special damages aim to recover any monetary losses you’ve incurred due to your ankle injury at work. You could include medical expenses, care costs, lost income, and travel costs amongst other things.

To prove the extent of your ankle injury, an independent medical assessment may need to be completed as part of your claim. This involves a meeting with a medical specialist who’ll review your injuries. They’ll also discuss what impact they’ve had upon your life. Usually, our solicitors can book local medical assessments so you won’t need to travel too far.

Ankle Injury At Work Compensation Amounts

To give you some idea about what level of compensation for an ankle injury at work could be awarded, we’ve added some compensation amounts below based on the guidelines for general damages advised by the Judicial College.

• Modest injuries such as a sprained ankle at work, up to £13,740 compensation.
• For an Achilles tendon injury at work, £7,270 to £38,430 compensation depending on severity and consequences.
• A broken ankle at work classed as moderate to very severe, £13,740 to £69,700 compensation.

If a solicitor takes on your case, they’ll explain how much you’ll claim after they’ve received the report from your medical assessment.

Ankle Injury At Work Claims Time Limits

It’s important to note that claiming compensation for an ankle injury at work is time-limited. In most situations, you’ll have 3-years to claim from the date your accident happened.

While this might seem like a long time, we’d suggest starting your claim as soon as you can. Firstly, that will allow plenty of time for evidence gathering and medical reports to be obtained. Secondly, if your employer has admitted liability, it might be possible to receive an interim payment to have your injuries treated privately in the hope you’ll make a faster recovery.

Do I Need A Solicitor To Claim Compensation For An Ankle Injury At Work?

Even if your supervisor or manager at work is apologetic following your ankle injury, you won’t automatically receive compensation. Your claim is probably going to be handled by your employer’s insurer. Even in straightforwards cases, the insurer won’t want to pay a penny unless you prove why your employer was liable for the incident and your injuries.

We believe that process is easier if you’ve got a personal injury solicitor on your side. Furthermore, they could improve the amount of compensation you receive.

If one of our specialist solicitors takes on your case, you won’t have to deal with the insurer at all. Everything will be done on your behalf and you’ll be kept up to date about what’s happening. If any objections or queries are raised, your solicitor will use their legal expertise and additional evidence where necessary to try and counter them. In all cases, your solicitor will try to make sure you are compensated fairly.

If you’d like us to review how much compensation you could claim for an ankle injury at work for free, call today on 0800 6524 881. A specialist advisor will explain the claims process and review your options right away.