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Mind That Banana Skin - Slip & Trip Accident Advice |
If You Have Suffered a motor accident, whiplash injury, accident at work, medical negligence, faulty goods, criminal injury, slip or trip, industrial injury, accident in a public place or
would just like some advice, please don't hesitate to give us a call on 08000 71 22 71 for any personal injury, medical negligence, road traffic accident, no win no fee accident claims
Statistics show hundreds of thousands of injuries in the UK are caused by falls.
These kinds of injuries caused by falls are also called slip and trip accidents.
While analyzing the causes of these falls, we may infer that most of them are
caused by being careless or clumsy, steeping on objects or due to defective,
uneven or slippery surfaces. These are only assumptions and other causes like
friction between the shoes and the surface, environmental distractions and
physical or mental functional limitations of the victim are seemingly ignored by
most personal injury investigators in slip and trip accidents
Walking Mechanics: Kinesiology is the study of energy applied to motion. This
science provides a method to analyze moving patterns. All human movement can be
measured and recorded. As we already know, all human movement occurs by
expansion and contraction of muscles which are attached to bones and joints. The
movement is facilitated by the use of leverage (as in physics). Understanding
these levers that the body uses helps to understand the injuries and deformities
caused as a result of an accident. All movement operates around the centre of
gravity, and the centre of gravity of a human body lies approximately at the
level of 55% of the height from the bottom, more or less at the centre of the
body.
The centre of gravity swings left and right when we walk depending upon the leg
being swung at that point of time along with the transfer of weight from the
trailing leg forward creating the momentum to aid the walking motion. The whole
process can be divided into four steps - propulsion, swing, and catch and
support.
Walking is a motor skill and walking patterns are distinctive from person to
person. These may be inherent graces or caused to factors like flat footedness
etc. Walking is an art of keeping your centre of gravity at the optimum area,
also called keeping your balance. Once the centre of gravity moves out of your
body's physical area for a prolonged period of time, you tend to lose your
balance and fall.
All of us walk intrusively, since walking is a motor skill and is imbibed. We do
not need any kind of concentration to keep walking, as a result of which our
mind wanders to various thoughts. However, the observation required to make our
walk smoother and avoid obstacles is not a motor skill. So we tend to lose our
concentration and powers of observation due to preoccupancy with the thought
process, we tend to get involved in a slip and trip accidents.
Falls can be classified into the following four categories:
1. Trip-and-fall accidents - caused due to encountering a foreign obstacle or
object in the walking path.
2. Stump-and-fall accidents - caused when a moving foot comes across an
impediment on the surface, which could be a tacky point or a defect that impedes
the foot.
3. Step-and-fall accidents - caused when the foot finds an unexpected failure,
void or hole in the walking surface.
4. Slip and trip accidents - caused when the contact between the sole of
the shoe and the floor fails to lend support to the walker's center of gravity.
Most common amongst the above is the slip and fall accident.
Investigation:
Investigators of injuries caused by falls should be knowledgeable in the
principles of human movement and should have working knowledge of floor
materials, cleaning methods, and lighting. During the reconstruction of a
slip-and-fall accident, investigators should not come to any conclusion too
quickly. Extensive interviews of the victim should form the basis o the
investigation. Measurement of slip resistance of the floor in question is
essential along with the accurate measurements of the light intensity and
contrast.
In all cases, the findings should be compared against the building codes and
industry standards. Although they seem to be the simplest of all slip and
trip accidents, falls are anything but simple.
If You Have Suffered a motor accident, whiplash injury, accident at work, medical negligence, faulty goods, criminal injury, slip or trip, industrial injury, accident in a public place or
would just like some advice, please don't hesitate to give us a call on 08000 71 22 71 for any personal injury, medical negligence, road traffic accident, no win no fee accident claims |
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