Hi.
This has been eating away at me for sometime and i just wondered if i could get some info/advice here.
almost 2 years ago i was injured at work. I worked as a security guard for a company . My place of work was a vehicle rental company that hired the security services of the company that i was employed by.
I worked as a night guard on this site and had the same routine each night i worked. i would patrol the site hourly througout the night until 7am in the morning.i also opened up and unlocked all gates.
one morning at around 6am i had opened the gate to allow the first member of staff onsite, around 10 or 15 minutes later i went to do my last patrol following my normal route..
the first part of the route involves walking between 2 buildings to get to the onsite carpark. The gap between the 2 buildings is fairly narrow .
As i was began walking between the 2 buildings i walked straight into a open steel framed window and cut my forehead open pretty badly.
You maybe thinking well i should have been watching where i was going, but the truth is, i had been working a night shift so i knew that there were no windows open as it was my job to ensure that they were closed throughout the night.
however, the member of staff that i have let on site 10 mins earlier was obviously the one who had opened the window. At the time i did report it to the manager and he recorded it in the accident book.
anyway..I ended up having my forehead glued and i now have a one inch scar on my forehead.
The company acknowleged this accident and actually taped all of the potentially dangerous windows closed to prevent another accident.
Ive never been a person to take action and complain about things but now ,2 years have passed and i still have a noticeable scar on my forehead ,i wondered if anyone thought i would be successful in persueing this for compensation.
This has been eating away at me for sometime and i just wondered if i could get some info/advice here.
almost 2 years ago i was injured at work. I worked as a security guard for a company . My place of work was a vehicle rental company that hired the security services of the company that i was employed by.
I worked as a night guard on this site and had the same routine each night i worked. i would patrol the site hourly througout the night until 7am in the morning.i also opened up and unlocked all gates.
one morning at around 6am i had opened the gate to allow the first member of staff onsite, around 10 or 15 minutes later i went to do my last patrol following my normal route..
the first part of the route involves walking between 2 buildings to get to the onsite carpark. The gap between the 2 buildings is fairly narrow .
As i was began walking between the 2 buildings i walked straight into a open steel framed window and cut my forehead open pretty badly.
You maybe thinking well i should have been watching where i was going, but the truth is, i had been working a night shift so i knew that there were no windows open as it was my job to ensure that they were closed throughout the night.
however, the member of staff that i have let on site 10 mins earlier was obviously the one who had opened the window. At the time i did report it to the manager and he recorded it in the accident book.
anyway..I ended up having my forehead glued and i now have a one inch scar on my forehead.
The company acknowleged this accident and actually taped all of the potentially dangerous windows closed to prevent another accident.
Ive never been a person to take action and complain about things but now ,2 years have passed and i still have a noticeable scar on my forehead ,i wondered if anyone thought i would be successful in persueing this for compensation.