We all visit supermarkets, retail stores, shopping centers and malls regularly and find them extremely convenient. Large supermarkets contain almost everything that we need for personal and household use under one roof. Most of the large chains have food-courts, restaurants, fast-food outlets, and hold regular events and sales where we can pick up seasonal bargains and also have an enjoyable day out with family and friends.

However, you could also be injured or harmed in a supermarket. If you or a loved one has been injured in a supermarket accident, getting medical assistance is your prime concern. Once this has been taken care of, contact a Mississauga personal injury lawyer as soon as possible. Accidents are caused by someone’s fault or negligence and victims are entitled to compensation from those responsible for the untoward event. Our immediate injury lawyers available 24×7 can assist you with getting medical attention.

Types of Supermarket Accidents

Supermarkets are large, busy areas, with different types of spaces, products and facilities. Supermarkets must be clean and well-maintained to enhance customer experience, and to make the place attractive, clean/hygienic and worth visiting. Apart from visitors, supermarket workers are also at risk.

Accidents that could occur in supermarkets include:

• Slip and fall is the most common type of accident, resulting from slippery or wet floors which have just been cleaned, especially in the corridors and wash-rooms. Accidents are caused by failure to place warning signs.

• In food-stores, spillages and leakages from the green-grocery, meats or refrigerated sections may cause the floor to become wet and if the store is not being regularly monitored, people can slip and fall.

• Placement of cartons, packaging material, shopping carts, loose and poorly maintained flooring or carpets, poor lighting and inadequate warning signals can cause serious accidents.

• Cracked flooring, uneven pavement outside the supermarket and ill-maintained stairs are other causes of injury.

• Badly-maintained air-conditioning systems, faulty escalators/elevators, no warning-signs on glass-doors and walls, poorly-lit/badly-maintained car-parks are other sources of harm/injury.

• Falling objects from shelves can cause injury when they hit your head or body. In very large supermarkets, if facilities are inadequate to take objects located on higher shelves, or no help is available, people could drop heavy items on their feet, shoulders or head, leading to serious injuries.

• Floor mats may be improperly placed, bunched up or slippery.

• Lacerations, cuts and bruises from sharp edges of grocery carts, shelves and counters may cause minor injuries.

• Food-poisoning or stomach infections from improperly packaged, unhygienic or date-expired products are other common injuries.

• If you’ve purchased a faulty, defective or malfunctioning product that causes you or your family harm while using it, the supermarket is responsible for the injury.

Liability

Supermarket business owners have a duty of care to all visitors who enter their premises to ensure that there is a reasonable amount of safety. They have to protect visitors from foreseeable harm. Any failure to do so could result in an accident/injury for which compensation must be paid. Our serious injury lawyers can assist you with establishing the chain of negligence and liability.

The compensation is to be paid by the insurance company of those responsible for the accident. Our free consultation Mississauga injury lawyers can provide a swift, genuine assessment of the circumstances of your case and advise you about the validity of your claim.

Steps to Take

If you have an accident in a supermarket:

• Report the accident immediately to a supervisor/manager and ensure that it is recorded in the store’s accident log/journal/book.
• Make a note of the person who recorded it, along with time/date.
• Get medical attention immediately, no matter how minor the injury.
• If there were witnesses, get their contact details.
• Never accept any free gifts, candy, discounts etc by way of compensation or in lieu of an apology from the store.
• Make a note of surveillance cameras in the vicinity.
• Take pictures on your cellphone of the venue, with prominent landmarks and the exact accident spot.
• Keep all bills, receipts and records of your visit to the supermarket and medical records.
• Get the supermarket’s insurance details and the name/address of the supermarket’s head/corporate office.
• Extent and nature of injury can be deceptive. If you develop serious symptoms later, contact your doctor immediately.
• Never make statements like “It’s all my fault” “I just didn’t see that” etc.

Find a Mississauga personal injury lawyer or a 24×7 injury lawyer immediately and begin working on your compensation claim, so that you file within the stipulated time-frame and at the right venue/jurisdiction.

If you, your family or a friend has been injured in an accident, please feel free to speak to one of our injury lawyers for a free consultation about how we are able to assist in making a personal injury claim. We consult in all cities across Ontario with a no win no fee guarantee. Our personal injury lawyers have helped victims secure millions of dollars in personal injury cases. Call us Toll Free On our 24/7 Injury Hotline: 1 – 844 495 7333 or Text a Personal Injury ‎Lawyer 24/7 and get instant help.TM (416 931 5015)