Personal Injury Law

Orlando Bathroom Injury & Accident

Orlando malls, stores and restaurants all have bathrooms. Some bathrooms are large, some small, but they all should be safely maintained to prevent injury to customers. Unfortunately, as Orlando injury lawyers, we have seen increasing numbers of avoidable injury claims involving Orlando bathrooms.

Many times these injury claims involve water on the bathroom floor. Most bathrooms have tile floors. If a customer steps in a puddle of water or walks through a wet area without noticing its presence, she may fall and seriously injure herself. We find that oftentimes the water or puddle on the bathroom floor had been caused by the business itself. Sadly, workers entrusted to clean or wash the bathroom floor fail to put up warning cones before beginning their work. Other workers ;eave excessive water on the floor when mopping which makes it unlikely to dry in a timely fashion; and, workers try to save time by removing the warning cones before checking to ensure the entire floor is dry.

In many of our cases, the business claims that it always checks its bathrooms every 15 to 30 minutes. However, the evidence usually reveals that much greater periods of time go by without any one even looking into the bathroom. In addition, we find that a bathroom attendant may take less than a minute to do "their bathroom check." Certainly, it seems unlikely that in such a brief time, floors, stalls and sinks could have been checked, cleaned and properly maintained.

There are simple too many times that bathrooms at movie theaters, malls, stores and restaurants have wet, dirty floors for these businesses to get a "free pass" when they cause injury to innocent children, adults or seniors. While no one can guarantee that trip and falls, or slip and falls will not happen, Orlando businesses can provide safe pedestrian areas to prevent avoidable injury. This is especially true in bathrooms.

In many of our cases, it is important to obtain photographs of the scene of the fall. Unsuspecting injury victims who trust the store or restaurant to ?do the right thing,? may be surprised when the dangerous floor is cleaned or dried and the owner or operator denies responsibility.

Most people are decent, hardworking and simply want to be treated fairly. Sadly, Orlando movie theaters do not always do so when injury results from their carelessness. Fortunately, Florida law has permitted us to assist many Orlando injury victims when dangerous floors, sidewalks or parking lots have caused preventable harm. To help those who have been injured, we continue to make available a free copy of the Florida Accident & Injury Book, Seeking Justice: An Insiders Guide for the Injured.

Full post as published by Orlando Injury Lawyer Blog on March 18, 2010 (boomark / email).