Burn Injury

A burn injury, or locally, a Highlands County burn injury, can lead to a life of severe pain, lifestyle restrictions, and financial insecurity.

Burn injury is often devastating, and may be caused by heat, cold, electricity, chemicals, light, radiation, or friction.

Whether at home or at work, a manufacturer which creates a dangerous and defective product, or a property owner that does not reasonably maintain the property which results in a fire or burn injury, are examples of parties which can be held accountable for serious burn injury.

Flammable Household Products

The consumer products most commonly associated with fires are bedding, mattress, clothing, and furniture.  Children's clothing, including foreign imports sold at well-known retail stores, have ben found to be flammable.  The results are devastating.

Chemicals at Home or the Workplace

Many chemicals that can cause moderate to severe chemical burns are strong acids or bases.  Chemical burns are usually caused by caustic chemical compounds, such as sodium hydroxide, silver nitrate, and more serious compounds (such as sulfuric acid and Nitric acid).

Hydrofluoric acid can cause damage down to the bone and its burns are sometimes not immediately evident. Chlorine can also cause internal and external burns.

If you have suffered chemical burn injuries as the result of someone else’s negligence, then you should contact an attorney to consider your legal options.

Electrical Burns

Electrical burn injury is generally caused by an electric shock, such as exposure to an active overhead power line, an active electrical wire, arcing from electrical power sources such as generators or transformers.

While the external burns vary and can range from minor to catastrophic, often the internal injuries are far worse – the external signs of injury may pale in comparison to the extensive internal injuries.  Such injuries may lead to heart irregularities, cardiac arrest, and unexpected falls with resultant fractures.

If you have suffered electrical burn injuries as the result of someone else’s negligence, then you should contact an attorney to consider your legal options.

Radiation burns

Radiation burn injuries can be caused by protracted and over exposure to UV light (as from the sun), tanning booths, radiation therapy (as patients who are undergoing cancer therapy), sun lamps, and X-rays.

A common burn associated with radiation is sun exposure, specifically two wavelengths of light UVA, and UVB, the latter being the more dangerous of the two.  Tanning booths emit these same wavelengths and can cause similar damage to the skin such as irritation, redness, swelling, and inflammation.  More severe cases of sun burn result in what is known as “sun poisoning.”

Scalding

Scalding is caused by super-heated liquid, including water, and gases. They most commonly occur in the home from exposure to high temperature tap water.  Steam is a common gas that causes scalds.  Broken steam or gas pipes, defective water coolers with hot water taps, and defective water boilers (e.. heat regulator not working) and plumbing defects can result in scalding burns.

More damage can be caused if hot liquids enter an orifice.  Deaths have occurred where steam pipes burst, not only from the burns, but also from the exploding force.

Burn Injury Lawyer

If you have suffered a serious Florida burn injury caused by others' negligence, then I will personally handle your case from our first meeting to our final results.  The case has to be quickly and efficiently investigated and evaluated, and promptly moved toward resolution, whether mediation, settlement, or trial.

Experts to assess and evaluate fault – liability – may be critical, depending on the circumstances.  Additionally, the appropriate health experts should be considered, including medical experts, vocational rehabilitation expert, life care planner expert, and economist.

If the cause of your Florida burn injury or your loved one’s severe burns was due to a condition on a property or a product, a workplace condition, or someone else’s carelessness, then you should act quickly to protect your contact us for a free legal consultation.

Burn Injury Attorney
Harris Law Firm

A burn injury victim should know that there are advanced therapies available to help with the scarring, skin elasticity problems, mobility problems, and cosmetic disfigurement caused by sever burn injury.

If the severe skin burns were caused by the negligence of others, then the burn injury victim may have the legal right to have that party pay for this advanced care and treatment in the form of compensation.

Contact an experienced personal injury lawyer at our office today for a confidential discussion of your claim.