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Pick packer suffered back injury while under work pressure to quickly lift items weighing up to 50kgs.

The Facts about Mitchell’s Work Accident Case

Mitchell was a pick packer when due to a colleague having a stroke, he had to adjust his duties to repetitively bend, twist and lift manually items weighing from 1kg to 50kg whilst experiencing pressure to work quickly. Mitchell previously would be given a rotation of duties but due to no replacement being hired for his colleague, he was unable to rotate duties.

He developed back pain in March 2019 which developed into such serious pain that he attended his doctor in September 2019.

The claim process on Mitchell's Work Accident case

1

Notify your employer of your work-related injury

It is crucial to notify work of your work-related injury ASAP. The next formal step is to complete an Incident Report with your employer.

2

See a GP and obtain a Workers' Compensation Medical Certificate.

See a doctor so they can check your work-related injury and obtain a Workers’ Compensation Medical Certificate. If your employer sends you to their doctor, you may want to consider also going to see your own GP.

3

Lodge an application for WorkCover claim online

The doctor who sees you may lodge a workers compensation claim on your behalf. If this doesn’t happen, head to the WorkSafe website and lodge an online application for WorkCover claims.

4

Provide medical and compensation application to the employer.

After obtaining your Workers’ Compensation Medical Certificate and lodging your application for a WorkCover claim, WorkCover will send copies of these to your employer.

The outcome of Mitchell’s Work Accident case.

Settled for $225,000.

Been injured? It’s your right to claim, ask us if you need help. Carter Capner Law offers No Win. No Fee. for most injury compensation cases that it takes on, including:

In some cases like medical negligence, we ask our client to meet the case expenses – but in many cases, we still take the financial risk of investing thousands of hours of expert professional work to ensure the claim’s success.

Disclaimer: Names have been change to protect the identity of our client. The image depicted is not of our client.

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