Employees often have to work in areas which need artificial lighting at night to ensure their safety. Sometimes this is outside and involves going up and down stairs. A case where an accident at work happened involved a security guard who was injured by falling down stairs at work as it was very dark.

To do his job he needed to go and patrol an area and ensure doors were locked. This meant walking up an external metal staircase. The stairs were wet and slippery and the lighting was insufficient as the nearest light was too far away from the stairs to light up the area.

On patrolling the area, he slipped and he suffered a severe shoulder injury. The accident was recorded in the work accident book and a claim for injury compensation was made.

Any employee who suffers an accident at work due to bad lighting may be able to make an accident at work claim for compensation with our help

All workplace accident claims should be made within three years from the date of the accident.

To find out if you can make a claim for slipping due to poor lighting at work, please call us on 0845 10 88 333 or claim by clicking: Insufficient & Broken Lighting Work Accident Claim.