Personal Injury Attorney News

Florida Supermarket companies go to great lengths to provide a pleasant and safe shopping experience for their customers. They have frequent company inspections to check for any possible hazards. Despite these efforts, accidents do occur in supermarkets quite frequently. This is due to the huge volume of customers, the nature of the products as well as the way the products are handled and displayed. Supermarket injuries are typically caused by the following:

• Slippery floors – Leaking refrigeration cases, produce sprays without the proper floor mats, water, especially on rainy days or from mopping, liquid spills from leaking or broken product containers.
• Transitory objects on aisle floors – Product overstock, products left on floors while shelves are being stocked, items that fall from shelves, produce that falls or is dropped are all potential dangers.
• Employee carelessness – Large pallets carrying heavy merchandise are often pushed or pulled through the store during busy hours. These may strike a patron knocking them to the floor, or into shelves and displays.
• Damaged Pavement – Potholes, cracked, raised or buckled pavement. Shopping carts can obstruct vision as well as poor lighting at night. Rainwater fills holes and makes them hard to see.
• Defective doors, damaged shopping carts, loose railings and other faulty equipment can lead to injury.
• Food poisoning from perishables – This is difficult to prove without the suspected product being saved, tested and matched to the bacterial strain found in the sickened individual – unless there were other cases involving the same product at the same time.

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