Home Depot is responsible for your safety in all parts of the store and even outside. If you fall due to a hazard left in a bathroom, you can file a personal injury claim and seek help with all medical bills and replace income you lose while missing work due to an injury.
Common Slip-and-Fall Hazards in Home Depot Bathrooms
Under California premises liability laws, businesses must look out for the safety of all shoppers and act to remove potential hazards. In big, busy places like Home Depot, the biggest dangers end up on the floor where people walk.
In bathrooms, bad plumbing can cause slipping risks. Another customer’s actions may also create a danger. Home Depot is responsible for monitoring both kinds of dangers and acting as quickly as possible to clean them up or remove them.
These are just a few of the accident hazards that can leave Home Depot fully responsible for injury and recovery costs:
- Leaking water – Pooling water from sinks or toilets can cause you to slip on shiny bathroom floors. You can take a violent fall and hit your head on the sink edge or on the tile to suffer a Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). You can also reach back to catch yourself, only to fracture a bone in your hip.
- Soapy puddles – Soap can make floors as slick as glass, causing a risk that takes your feet out from under you.
- Debris on the bathroom floor – Trip-and-fall accidents are also possible in messy bathrooms where shoppers have been leaving trash on the floor. An obstacle can catch a foot and send someone falling forward. Victims might endure a kneecap injury or even fracture a hip bone.
- Missing “wet floor” signs – Even when water hazards are mopped properly, those floors will still remain wet for a while. Managers and employees need to make sure there are “wet floor” signs out so that visitors know to take cautious steps. Victims who fall when wet floor signs are posted can still earn help with recovery in some cases. A wet floor sign doesn’t erase Home Depot’s liability when people get hurt.
What to Do After a Fall in a California Home Depot Bathroom
Home Depot should take accountability for its negligence when customers get hurt, but it’ll also be able to rely on corporate lawyers to try to find reasons to reject your case. They’ll want to blame you for your fall.
You should make sure you collect as much evidence on the scene to help prove that Home Depot was at fault.
When victims fall, they should contact 911 if they are injured and get checked out by paramedics. If they are left strong enough, they should act to get photos of the obstacle that caused their injury.
Victims should secure contact information from witnesses. They should also alert a Home Depot manager so that an incident report is created and proof of what happened exists.
After that, victims should visit their own doctors even if they’ve already been to the emergency room. Patients need to have any new pain examined and documented. Victims should follow their doctors’ orders.
Contact a California Slip-And-Fall Accident Attorney
If you only suffer some minor bruising and soreness after a fall at a Home Depot, you might not need a lawyer’s help. But if you endure a more serious injury, it’s a good idea to go over your options with a California Home Depot slip-and-fall accident lawyer.
A lawyer can often secure much more for you in a settlement claim than you could earn by handling the case yourself. You’ll want to earn everything you can for recovery because there’s no guarantee you won’t have a flare-up or re-injure a weakened body part and need additional care in the years ahead.
Contact Maison Law for a free, no-obligation consultation. It’s a no-risk way to find out what your injury is worth and what you should demand from unhelpful insurance companies. And if you feel we can help you earn more for your case, you don’t need to worry about finding the money to hire a lawyer. We don’t get paid unless we score a case victory for you. Then our fee comes out of the settlement Home Depot must provide to you.
