Slips Trips and Falls

"Slip and fall injury" or "trip and fall injury" is the common term for an injury that happens when someone slips, trips or falls because of a dangerous or hazardous condition on someone else's property. Slip and fall injuries can result from problems slippery substances on the floor such as water, rain, ice, snow, grease, or other conditions such as abrupt changes in flooring, poor lighting, or a hidden hazard, for instance a gap or hard to see hole in the ground.

Slip, trip and fall accidents are considered "fall down accidents," and any injury caused by such an accident is considered a personal injury.

Here are four common categories fall down accidents are grouped as:

• Stump-and-fall accidents, where there is an object in the walking surface - like a cord that runs across a walkway that wasn't there previously;
• Step-and-fall accidents, where there is an unexpected failure or hole in the walking surface, such as a missing manhole cover or utility cover in the sidewalk;
• Slip-and-fall accidents, when you loose your footing because of a substance on the floor- you slip and fall on someone's wet or greasy floor and there are no warning signs posted anywhere.
• Trip-and-fall accidents, where there is a foreign object in the walking path - like a stack of boxes in a walkway that is normally clear;

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