The sobering fact is that vision impairment is one of the top ten disabilities in America and 90 percent of all eye injuries are preventable. You don’t need to work with hazardous chemicals in order to get an eye injury. In fact, eye hazards can be found in almost every single industry. 61 percent of all vision impairment injuries occur in a manufacturing, construction, or trade job. Yet there have also been reports of eye injuries in medical facilities, laboratories, and offices. Not all eye injuries are due to a foreign object entering the eye.
In fact, many of these injuries occur when a person gets eye fatigue from staring at a bright screen too long, or gets on ocular disease from handling patients at a hospital who have eye illness. Between projectiles, chemicals, radiation, and blood borne pathogens, there are a variety of reasons that you can get an eye injury. For those who work in manufacturing, health care, electrical work, plumbing, welding, or, carpentry, safety goggles are very important. As well, those who work in auto repair and construction should be required to wear precautionary eye wear.
If you received an eye injury because your company did not require you to wear these safety glasses or did not provide you with a pair, then you may be able to sue. Talk to a Wilmington personal injury lawyer at the Lanier Law Group, P.A. to get started seeking damages for your eye injury!
