Factory Accident Claims

If you work in a factory and have had an accident at work within the past three years, you could be entitled to make a factory accident compensation claim. The accident in a factory must have caused you to suffer some form of personal injury, and somebody else must have been at fault for your accident.

A factory will usually house a range of machinery which can present a significant risk of injury if the machinery is not maintained correctly, or if the machine operators are not provided with sufficient training. Depending on the type of work you are employed to do, working in a factory may also include lifting and manual handling. This therefore poses the risk of suffering a lifting injury, which again may give you grounds to make a factory injury compensation claim.


Industrial accident claims are seen fairly frequently in the UK because process, plant and machine operatives actually have one of the highest injury incident rates of all industries, at over 1.5%.

Unfortunately industrial accidents are also responsible for a great many of the fatal injuries suffered in the workplace, presumably owing to the heavy machinery that employees have to work alongside. Again looking at 2009/2010, 34 of the 111 fatal accidents that occurred in UK workplaces that year were industrial accidents.

Manufacturing in particular is an industry that over-contributes to accidents at work. It accounts for 9% of employment in the UK but 16% of workplace injuries. The recycling sector appears particularly dangerous for employees, along with working with wood.

Although the picture does seem to be improving, with over a 50% reduction in factory accidents since 1982, manufacturing injuries continue to occur all too frequently within the British workforce and are the basis for many industrial accident compensation claims.


If you have been involved in any kind of industrial accident that was caused by someone else’s negligence, we may be able to help you. Our panel of UK personal injury solicitors work on a no win no fee basis and guarantee 100% compensation. Therefore making a factory accident claim through our personal injury solicitors will not cost you a penny, whether or not your case is successful.

If you have had a factory accident and would like to find out if you may be entitled to claim compensation, contact us for a completely free assessment by completing our online personal injury claim form.