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Crush Injury

A crush injury is when a part of the body is crushed between two objects.  Some of the symptom of a crush injury includes swelling and bleeding in the area, damaged skin, pain or numbness or in the more severe accidents a deformed or mangled body part. 

Crush injuries are mainly the result of an accident and the most common being getting a finger caught in a door.  The more serious injury occurs when there is a large force or collision.  Maybe a car drove into you and crushed you up against a wall.  This type of strong force may cause the skin to crack or scrape.   In extreme cases the loss of function or blood flow may occur in the area.  This area will be increasingly at risk of infection so will need to be seen by medical experts as soon as possible.  The worse scenario is amputation where a surgeon has to remove the body part that was crushed.  This can be extremely traumatic and can lead on to having physiological and emotional distress. 

If you have had a crush injury that was not your fault then you could be entitled to claim compensation.  Here at accident consult we are experienced in dealing will all types of personal injury claims.