Types of Workplace Injury

Workplace Injury Lawyers — Long Beach, California

California workers' compensation law entitles you to income and medical benefits due to an injury suffered during the course of your employment. This includes everything from a repetitive stress injury to a catastrophic construction injury.

• Did you slip and fall in your employer's parking lot?
• Did you get in a car accident while making a delivery off premises?
• Did your neck injury get worse due to your current job requirements?
• Do you have hypertension due to work-related stress?

While all work-related injuries qualify you to workers' compensation, the difficulty may be getting your employer and its insurer to provide the benefits you are entitled to.

Contact the Work Injury Law Offices of George S. Henderson in Long Beach to discuss your workplace injury and workers' compensation claim in a free initial consultation. Call (866) 936-1947 or (562) 472-2762.

Over the course of 30 years, attorney George S. Henderson has helped thousands of clients successfully resolve their workers' compensation cases. We treat our clients with dignity and respect while skillfully advocating on their behalf.

Types of workplace injuries that we handle include:

1. You are entitled to benefits for primary injuries from accidents (one-time events). These include:
   • Orthopedic injuries such as:
     • A Spinal, neck or back injury
     • Degenerative disc disease
     • Bulging and herniated intervertebral discs
     • Knee injury
     • Foot and ankle injury
     • Shoulder, arm, elbow, wrist, hand and finger injury
     • Hips injury
     • Spine and thoracic injury
   • Head Injuries, including traumatic brain injury (TBI), that involve:
     • Cognitive loss
     • Memory loss
     • Disorientation
     • Personality change
     • Crush injuries
     • Amputation (from a finger or hand to a foot)
     • Burns
     • Spinal cord injury or nerve damage
     • Fibromyalgia, RSD and CRPS
     • Death (we represent families who have lost loved ones to workplace accidents)
2. Toxic Exposure — Related Disease
   • Lung injury, pulmonary (exposure to diesel fumes or carbon monoxide) or respiratory illness
   • Cancer (lung, stomach, colon, throat and other cancers; cancer diagnosed years after retirement)
3. Repetitive Trauma Injury
   • Carpal tunnel syndrome
   • Tendonitis (whether from clerical work or from running a jackhammer)
   • De Quervain's syndrome
   • Bursitis and rotator cuff tear
   • Impingement syndromes of shoulder
   • Chronic back pain or strain
   • Cumulative trauma
   • Overuse syndrome
   • Heart attack
   • Stroke
   • Heart disease
   • Onset of elevated blood pressure, or aggravation of high blood pressure due to psychological stress
4. Secondary Injuries Caused by First Injury. Also known in California as compensable consequences, which means that the employer must also pay for these injuries. Common compensable consequences include:
   • Medical malpractice
   • Psychiatric injures such as anxiety and depression
   • Gastric problems due to pain medications
   • Elevated blood sugar and elevated blood pressure due to inactivity and stress
   • Injuries to the opposite extremity due to favoring the injured extremity
5. Internal Medicine Conditions
   • Heart disease
   • Cancer
   • Diabetes
   • Arthritis
   • Toxic exposure
   • Stroke
6. Psychiatric Injury/Stress-Related Diagnoses
   • Depression
   • Anxiety
   • Panic attack
   • Mental illness
   • Fibromyalgia
   • RSD
   • Rapid or irregular heartbeat
   • Shortness of breath
   • Sleep disorder

You Are Not Alone. Call (866) 936-1947 or (562) 472-2762 Today.

When you cannot work and are uncertain how to pay your bills, consider relying on a lawyer skilled in workers' compensation law. Contact the Work Injury Law Offices of George S. Henderson in Long Beach online. We provide clients with sound legal counsel and effective advocacy throughout the workers’ compensation claims process.

We offer Spanish, English, Vietnamese, Tagalog and Farsi language services.