Cruise Ship Injury Help: I Hurt My Neck On a Luxury Liner!

Most cruise ship injury information focuses on luxury travelers who hurt themselves. For instance, by slipping on unmarked decks, contracting food poisoning after eating bad seafood, or suffering side effects of being poorly diagnosed by an onboard physician.

Cruise ship workers can suffer all the injuries that happen to a passenger, and at times, significantly more. Despite sound engineering, safety practices, drills, and other precautions, accidents can and do happen out in open water. Even on cruise lines with the best reputations for accident prevention, you might be surprised at the poor engineering, bad safety training, and the lack of safeguards that should be in place.

Here are few common injuries that workers onboard a cruise liner may suffer:

• Neck burn injury. A cruise ship worker laboring in the boiler room, kitchen, or working around powerful machinery can suffer scalds, burns, or even electrical shock. For instance, A soux chef could be working with hot oil, in heavy seas. A jolt at the wrong time could splash the soux chef with scalding oil.

• Chronic stress neck injury. Consider the case of a cruise ship entertainer who performs balancing acts and other circus-like-performances to entertain guests. Over years of doing his act, he might develop strains, stresses, even fractures, which can compromise not only his neck but also his general spinal health.

• Neck injury due to a slip and fall or other similar accident. A worker could slip and fall down stairs and hurt his neck, get into a fight with another worker (or passenger) and suffer a neck injury, or receive a jolt to the neck when the ship docks or moves suddenly.

What can you do about your cruise ship neck injury? Connect immediately with the lawyers at Vujasinovic & Beckcom or call (877) 724-7800 for free resources and powerful help with your case.