Work-Related Spinal Cord Injuries

Sustaining a spinal cord injury at work can be quite debilitating.

When the sustained injury is catastrophic, the employee may have to undergo extensive physical therapy, continuing rehabilitation, and surgery while having to deal with extensive medical bills, disabilities, and severe pain.

Work-related spinal cord injuries, most often, can leave the employee, in the extremities, with permanent tingling sensation.

Catastrophic injuries that involve long-term spinal nerve damage can result in repercussions throughout a lifetime, such as confinement to a wheelchair or bed.

The majority of work-related spinal cord injuries entail severe nerve damage for a worker to suffer the following: muscle atrophy; paraplegia, quadriplegia, or another type of paralysis; foot drop; long-term nerve damage, that includes neuropathy; intense back and neck pain; limited or reduced mobility; and a continuing tingling sensation in the wrists, limbs, ankles, toes, hands, and fingers.

Many individuals connect a critical injury in the workplace with occupations which are considered labor-intensive. Normally, this can include dockworkers, a construction worker, truck driver, et al.

The critical nature of an injury, however, usually pertains to a variety of factors, which may include the damage extent to the nervous system.

The majority of workers sustain back, spinal cord, and neck injuries due to a fall or slip in the workplace.

Several accidents can result in major nerve damage and head trauma that requires extensive surgeries and long-term treatment.

Occupations which require pushing, moving, or heavy lifting are likely to have an incident rate of injury to the spinal cord higher in the workplace.

Certain jobs, which include factory workers, nurse aids, janitors, and warehouse employees, are likely to experience critical injuries to the spinal cord from repeated twisting, bending, lifting, and reaching.


The spinal column and brain comprise the central nervous system; bundles of nerves that are fragile provide information throughout the body.

Encased in the spinal column is the spinal cord, which forms 24 vertebrae to offer movement and safeguard nerves from damage.

When the ligaments, vertebrae, and discs of the spinal column sustain an injury, the harm may last throughout a lifetime.

Even a spinal cord injury that is minor, if left untreated, over time can become critical.

Subsequent to an immediate physical effect of a catastrophic spinal cord injury that has diminished, families can usually face substantial medical bills, and lost support because of an inability to earn wages weekly.

They usually hire, as a result, a personal injury lawyer who specializes in claims for spinal cord injury to attain compensation.

Workers who sustained severe spinal cord injuries due to a workplace accident are normally entitled to recover financial damages and receive benefits.

Plans that entail worker’s compensation may provide benefits, but the compensation amount can be limited to time away from work and medical costs.

A personal injury lawyer who specializes in work-related spinal cord injuries, alternatively, can make an evaluation of a legal claim to see if additional parties can be held liable financially for sustained injuries.

Contact us for a free consultation or call Anzalone Law Firm PLLC, at: 603.548.3797.