Poolman Injured While Cleaning a Pool for a Homeowner
Does a pool man who gets injured on the job while working at a home have a right to pursue a claim against the homeowner? The answer is yes. If you were injured while working as a pool man on a property, you would have two separate cases. Your first case would be a workers compensation case. However, your second arguably more valuable case, would be the personal injury claim against the homeowner for negligence.
Pool Technicians Do Not Design Pools, Only Clean Pools – Homeowners Are at Fault for Defects
Let’s talk about the pool technician’s job, the pool and its condition and the homeowner’s job in relation to caring for their pool. It is going to sound like a “which came first, the chicken or the egg” argument, but it isn’t really. It is clear cut, actually crystal clear, and it needs to be reviewed here for your edification.
Homeowners Design Pools, and They Want What They Want, Good, Bad or Ugly
The pool technician is responsible for cleaning a pool. The pool technician did not design the pool and has to clean the pool in whatever condition it is left in. The homeowner is responsible to keep the pool maintained. That means, that when the pool starts to crack, chip, become damaged or defective in any way, the homeowner needs to call the contractor to come and fix the pool to make it safe again for use. The pool technician’s job is only to clean the pool. If there are dangerous conditions and defects around the pool, it is not the technician’s responsibility to fix it, that is for the homeowner to remedy this situation.
If you have been injured as a pool technician while cleaning and maintaining a homeowner’s pool, you need to give us a call right away. We will connect you with an attorney who will know how to help you to win the case. Our legal staff will know the next steps to initiate a lawsuit, and argue for the breach of minimum standards of care in this case. We will designate our legal team to bring a lawsuit to right the wrongs that have occurred against you in this situation.
Common Pool Technician Pool Maintenance Issues and Pool Care Concerns
There are many issues related to the proper care and maintenance of pools at a homeowner’s residence. The following are some of the issues that can come up when a homeowner does not properly maintain the pool and areas around the pool structure.
- Calcium carbonate build up, and calcium silicate scale build up over 400 parts per million for both build ups.
- Fatal flaw cracks in concrete pools that shift the surface of the pool area up, creating pressure to bubble the concrete or create uneven and undistributed chasms and crevices in the pool surface.
- Major pH imbalances with dangerously high levels of chloramines, chlorine, and ammonia, which are hazardous to humans.
- Mold, mildew and staining from rust in foundation and concrete cracks in the pool.
- Clogged and ill maintained water purity and purification filters, with a lack of or too many chemicals added to the pool in an effort to shock the pool (shocking gone wrong).
- Defective or faulty pumps and drains, that are unable to properly pump and filter water because of defects in the design of this equipment.
- Defective diving boards and ladders that chip, crack in half or break when used or touched.
- Shoddy pool installation for pools with faulty pool supports, installation and pool walls susceptible to collapsing.
If you have been injured at a home when you went to clean and maintain the pool, you need to give us a call. You will be immediately connected with a lawyer who has experience in maintaining and winning this type of action for personal injuries incurred while cleaning a homeowner pool. You need to be talking now to an attorney with expertise in these types of legal consequences, which are immediately brought out in this case. You will be in good hands, and need to call us to get the next steps up and running, to get you the reimbursement compensation that you will need to pay all of your medical bills in this case.
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Poolman Can Be Injured While Working Cleaning a Defective Pool
If you are a pool technician, you can be injured quite easily while you are tasked with cleaning a homeowner’s defective pool. Most common are injuries associated because of the pool being defective, out of maintenance and generally unsafe. For example, if you have a defective or exposed water line on the pool being cleaned, you can be injured by this equipment and its defects. If you have defective tile work that can snap off, it can create a dangerous situation that can cause an accident, causing you to fall and sustain serious personal injuries.
Defective diving boards that can snap with weight, are also a hazard, which can result in serious injury. More common are injuries caused to swimming pool technicians because of the pool being empty. This can cause catastrophic injuries when the pool technician falls into a pool that has issues, problems and concerns that create hazards for the person attempting to clean the pool.
If you have been injured maintaining or cleaning a pool as a pool technician, you need to contact the attorneys who specialize in the refined areas of the law applied here in this case of defective and negligence related to pools at a home. You should be talking to a lawyer with a specialty in the type of case at hand, to get you the recovery compensation that you need in this situation. You need to talk to our lawyers who can help with the rule of law to be applied in this case, for the recovery you need to heal from your personal injuries.
Common Poolman and Pool Technician Injuries While Cleaning Homeowner Pool
Most common we see fractured wrist, ribs, and orbital sockets because of falls. In certain cases, we have seen the technician suffer serious brain injuries due to the defective pool design. This includes cases where the technician had to enter the water for any reason and the pool lacked the property safety depth markers causing death or serious injury. Other injuries that can be suffered as a pool technician include injuries to the:
- Hips
- Legs
- Head
- Neck
- Back
- Spine
- Limbs
Some injuries can be serious, related to falling down on slippery, cracked or chipped surfaces in or around a pool. If a pool technician falls in or around a pool during maintenance, there can be serious personal injuries, including:
- Blood or fluid in ears and nose
- Back injury
- Neck injuries
- Nausea vomiting
- Near drowning
- Loss of consciousness
- Loss of balance
- Pressure in the head, neck or back area
- Bruises and lacerations from poolside jagged edges
- Broken bones from falling into empty pools, tripping on tiles
- Tingling in the extremities
- Difficulty standing and walking
- Trauma to the head, neck or back
If you have been hurt because of a defective or ill maintained pool area, you need to give our law firm a call today. We are ready to talk to you and discuss how to get you the recovery compensation that you need in this case. Call us now, we are ready to respond to you today.
Who Has Liability for Poolman Injuries Cleaning and Maintaining a Pool?
Who is liable in situations like this? Typically, you may believe that the homeowner is not liable, but this is not accurate. A homeowner will be liable for conditions that are defective on the property, because the homeowner not the pool technician is responsible for the upkeep of the pool and its surrounding structures. This includes if the condition of the property was not code related, but is maintenance related.
For example, if various steps are not up to code, it is the homeowner’s duty to fix those issues related to that person’s pool. Or in other situations if there are conditions of defective issues related to the pool, then the homeowner needs to call the pool installer, contractor for pools or other “go to” person for fixing the pool and its defective structures. The pool technician only cleans the pool, that individual who cleans did not build the pool and is not responsible for fixing its defects. It is just that simple.
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“Help, I Was Seriously Injured Cleaning a Homeowner’s Pool, Who Pays My Medical Bills?”
If you have been injured while cleaning and maintaining a pool, you need to call us today. You will be connected with our Los Angeles case lawyers who can file a lawsuit, and answer the questions before us regarding at-fault parties and liability for your personal injuries. When you give us a call, you will have access to our case attorneys in Los Angeles who can sue, and manage the issues that have been proposed regarding your personal injuries in this case.
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