$140,000 Workers’ Compensation Settlement for Lower Back Injury
Lower Back Injury Settlement for an Injured Worker
While carrying a heavy item up the stairs as part of his job duties, this worker suffered a lower back injury that required extensive medical treatment. After a claim was filed with the Illinois Workers’ Compensation Commission, Sexner Injury Lawyers LLC negotiated a lump-sum workers’ compensation settlement of $140,000 for our injured client.
Common Workplace Injury Claims
Workplace injuries continue to affect employees across Chicago, throughout Illinois, and across the country. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, private industry employers reported 2.5 million nonfatal workplace injuries and illnesses in 2024.
Some jobs involve a relatively low risk of physical injury. Others, including construction, warehouse, manufacturing, delivery, maintenance, and labor-intensive positions, may expose workers to more serious hazards. Common workers’ compensation claims often involve:
- Slips, trips, and falls: These accidents may happen on wet floors, icy surfaces, spilled liquids, or areas where water has been tracked inside. Workers may suffer sprains, strains, fractures, or back injuries.
- Falls from heights: Employees who use ladders, scaffolds, roofs, platforms, or elevated work areas may suffer severe injuries if they fall. These cases may involve broken bones, head trauma, spinal injuries, or fatal accidents.
- Falling or moving objects: Warehouse employees, grocery workers, retail employees, construction workers, and others may be injured when products, tools, materials, or equipment fall from above or strike them during work.
- Machinery accidents: Factory, construction, warehouse, and industrial workers may suffer serious injuries from heavy equipment, defective machinery, unsafe guarding, fast-moving production lines, or inadequate safety procedures.
- Repetitive stress injuries: Repeated motions over weeks, months, or years may cause conditions such as tendonitis, carpal tunnel syndrome, and other chronic work-related injuries.
- Overexertion injuries: Workers may suffer back, neck, shoulder, or muscle injuries when lifting, pushing, pulling, carrying, or throwing heavy objects as part of their job duties.
Help After a Work-Related Back Injury
Lower back injuries can interfere with work, mobility, sleep, and daily life. Some workers recover with therapy and conservative treatment, while others may need injections, specialist care, surgery, or long-term restrictions. When an injury happens during the course of employment, workers’ compensation benefits may help pay for medical care and lost time from work.
Since 1990, Sexner Injury Lawyers LLC has helped injured workers pursue the compensation available under Illinois law. If you were hurt at work, call 312-243-9922 or contact us for a free case evaluation.
