Over 800,000 patients a year are hospitalized because of slip and fall injuries most often because of a head injury or hip fracture. Business owners have a responsibility to keep their property safe. When a big business fails in its responsibility, serious injuries can occur to customers.
Understanding the responsibility of business owners, what can cause a fall, and the types of cases we’ve handled can help you when selecting the right lawyer to represent you.
To find out if you have a case, please don’t hesitate to contact us via phone at 864-235-4999 by tapping the button below or by filling out our request form for a free consultation.
Protecting Customers from Slip and Fall Injuries
Customer safety should be the number one priority for every business owner. When it comes to commercial or residential property, there is a legal responsibility to keep that property in a reasonably safe condition.
For 20 years, attorney Thomas Creech has represented clients in a variety of personal injury cases, including serious fall injury cases.
Time is of the essence. If you suffer serious injuries due to a fall, you need to reach out to us as soon as possible. Evidence can get lost, damaged, or destroyed if you wait too long.
Common Dangerous Conditions
There are a variety of circumstances that can cause a customer to fall and suffer a serious personal injury. If you’ve encountered any of the following hazards and suffered a serious injury, please don’t hesitate to contact us.
- Uneven floor surfaces can lead to a trip hazard
- Liquid on a floor
- Cracks in a flooring surface
- Uneven floors at exit and entry of a building
- Unsafe steps or stairs
- Lack of a stair rail on steps
- Inadequate or no lighting
- Trash or debris left on a floor can lead to a trip hazard
Visit our main fall injuries page for a more in-depth look at each of these hazards.
Slip and Fall Injury Case Examples
It’s important to remember a premises liability cases which include slip and fall situations can happen anywhere. Also, success in one slip-and-fall case does not guarantee success in another.
School Cafeteria
We settled a case involving a school cafeteria failing to clean up spilled water on the floor after noticing the water on the floor, which caused our client, a middle school student, to slip and break her ankle. Our client required hardware implantation in her ankle including a plate and screws. She continued to have ankle swelling with activity after the surgical procedure and her treatment were finished.
Attack at Bar
We represented the family of a man who was attacked at a bar and suffered serious brain injuries when his head hit a cement floor at the bar. The case involved the bar not providing security to prevent the attack.
Grocery Store
We represented a woman who was shopping at a grocery establishment when she stepped on a folded box causing her to slip, fall and tear a rotator cuff, requiring surgery. The folded box was placed on the floor by a store employee and hidden from our client as she rounded a corner of a bin.
For additional case examples, visit our cases page by clicking the button below.
Slip and Fall Injuries Wrap up
If you or a loved one has suffered a serious fall injury, the physical, financial, and emotional toll can be staggering. Thomas Creech has experience guiding clients through the peaks and valleys that a slip-and-fall injury case presents.
Call us today at 864-235-4999 or fill out the form below to request your free consultation.
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