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Facial Injuries

Railroad work requires workers to operate a number of very dangerous machines. The work also places workers at risk of a variety of different injuries. Many injuries that railroad workers face could have been avoided, however, if the employer had provided a safe working environment and adequate safety gear to protect their employees.

The Federal Employer’s Liability Act protects employees who have been injured due to the negligence of their employer. While many railroad-related injuries include injuries to the back, neck, shoulders, knees, and even brain, there is also a substantial risk of facial injuries.

Facial injuries include injuries to the bones of the face, the skin, or the teeth and gums. More often than not, facial injuries occur when railroad equipment malfunctions or a heavy object is dropped on a worker, striking his or her face. If you have experienced a facial injury, doctors may wish to take a CT scan of the head to ensure that no additional head damage has occurred, such as brain damage.

Our faces have many different components, causing facial injuries to be very complex in nature. You may have experienced damage to your mouth and jaw area, requiring the treatment of loose or missing teeth. Jaw injuries may be even more serious and require major surgery to reshape the jaw. Damage to your face’s bone structure will also require intensive treatments, as these bones support all of the other parts of your face, such as your eyes, jaw, and nose.

Suffering a facial injury can have a serious impact on your self-esteem. Some injuries will not fully recover even after treatment, and others will leave a patient disfigured and self-conscious for the rest of their life. Suffering the effects of a facial injury, both emotional and financial, is not something that you should have to struggle with if the injury was caused by someone else’s negligence.

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For more information about your FELA rights, contact the FELA lawyers of Williams Kherkher today by calling 866-950-9000.