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California Injury Accidents At Hardware Stores

California residents continually work to fix up, repair and add on to their homes and properties. Unofficial handymen and women make shopping trips into places like Home Depot, Lowe’s, and Ace Hardware all day long.

They may be focused on finding the right size nail or piece of lumber and ignoring where they step or paying zero attention to the products that may be looming overhead. Unfortunately, that can be an issue, because hardware and home improvement stores carry more threats to your safety than you may be aware of.

Spilled coffee across those wide aisles may take your boot out from under you. Pulling out the wrong 2×4 on a shelf could start an avalanche of other boards. These are instances where you can suffer serious injuries making you a California hardware store accident victim. In many cases, the store you’ve been invited into can be held responsible for the costs of your recovery.

Free Case Evaluation for California Home Improvement Store Accident Victims

While you’re sitting on the floor and possibly in pain, you may not be thinking about who should be held responsible for what happened. Yet, when the hospital and doctor bills come due, liability might be your number one concern.

Don’t wonder about what to do after an accident at Home Depot or True Value Hardware. Take advantage of a free consultation and talk with a real California Slip-And-Fall and Premises Liability Lawyer. At Maison Law, the wellbeing of the victim and the victim’s family is placed ahead of everything else. We want to make sure you earn the compensation you need to make a full recovery.

Home Improvement Store Accident Dangers in California

Warehouse-style stores like Lowe’s and Home Depot in California pack a lot of merchandise into each aisle. The shelves are wide and tall and sometimes the heaviest objects are above you. These hazards are hidden in plain sight and customers may not notice until they are struck by falling merchandise.

Pulling one item from a shelf in the paint department could free several paint cans to tumble down on a customer.  A shelf could crumple under the weight of the products as people walk by and unleash powerful forces. These mishaps can do serious damage to the human body and cause broken bones, crush injuries, traumatic brain injuries, and in the worst cases, endanger lives.

There are also obstacles at ground level to cause slip-and-fall and trip-and-fall hardware store accidents. A store display on a cluttered aisle might catch a foot and send someone to the ground to damage a knee cap or fracture a hip.

A spilled soda or tracked in rainwater could cause a slip and send a victim to the ground to suffer a back injury.

California Hardware Store Injuries and Premises Liability

Customers walking into Ace Hardware may not know that these stores owe them more than just accepting their credit cards. Home improvement stores also owe all visitors to their properties a legal “duty of care.” They must provide a safe environment for their customers to shop in and when hazards arise or are created by customers they must be repaired or cleaned up in a reasonable amount of time.

This duty extends from the parking lot, the pavement and sidewalks, into all corners of the store and even the back bathrooms. Garden centers and outdoor aisles must also be kept as safe as possible for all customers.

When injuries occur due to the negligence of store employees, managers, and the corporations that employ them, stores can be held financially responsible for victims under the concept of “premises liability.”

Victims must demonstrate that property owners or operators failed in their duty to fix potential dangers to customers. When found liable, store owners and corporate parent companies can be on the hook for every recovery cost the victim of a California hardware store injury incurs.

What To Do After a Hardware Store Accident

If you are injured at a place of business like a Lowe’s, the fault in the accident may clearly rest on the store and corporation itself. Unfortunately, insurance companies for these national chains will still try to poke holes in your claim and even attempt to place the blame on you.

Having evidence that backs up your account of how you got injured is vital. Your Hardware Store Injury Lawyer will gather as much evidence as possible after the incident, but they won’t be there in the moments after the accident.

The best proof of what happened is found at the scene shortly after you’ve been hurt. If you are able or if someone with you can be counted on, try to gather details on the scene:

  • Call 911 – Contact emergency responders if you are in need of medical care. Tell paramedics about every pain you experience. Go to the hospital if necessary.
  • Collect Pictures – Before store managers can clean up or fix the obstacle that left you injured, take photos and video of what you encountered when you were hurt. Note any hazard signs or tape in place or the lack of signs and document any lighting issues.
  • Alert a Store Representative – A manager will be required to prepare an incident report for their company officials. This report will be valuable evidence for you later.
  • Don’t Accept Blame – Don’t state that you “were to blame” or say “my bad” after an accident. Allow investigators and your personal injury lawyer to determine who should bear liability for what happened. In your state of shock, you may not figure out exactly what happened until much later.
  • Talk to Witnesses – Discuss what any potential witnesses saw. They may not have seen you fall but could be able to confirm the existence of the hazard that left you injured. Get witness contact information.
  • See your Doctor – Make an appointment with your doctor. Get all injuries documented and mention any pain that arises in the days after a fall.

Contact a California Hardware Store Accident Lawyer

When victims are injured on the property of a national chain store, they can quickly be in over their heads when attempting to seek help with their recovery. Stores like Lowe’s and Home Depot will have corporate lawyers and insurance adjusters ready to poke holes in your accident to rob you of the financial support they should be providing.

Level the playing field by having a skilled California Hardware Store Accident Lawyer on your side. Martin Gasparian, the founder of Maison Law, has a long, successful history of taking on big companies in order to earn injured victims and their families the money they need to rebuild their lives.

Contact Mr. Gasparian immediately to discuss your case in a free consultation and find out about all of the benefits available to injured victims.

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