Inhalation, ingestion, and other exposures to dangerous chemicals can pose a serious risk to your health. After suffering exposure to a toxic substance, you might need extensive medical assistance, which can be costly, as well as physically and mentally draining. If your injuries and treatments force you to take time away from work, you might be worried about how you will support your family and make ends meet.
Fortunately, our trusted premises liability team has the skills and experience to offer you assistance during this troubling time. A League City toxic chemical exposure lawyer from Schechter, Shaffer & Harris might be able to help you seek compensation from the person or entity responsible for your dangerous exposure.
How Toxic Chemical Exposures Occur
Exposure to toxic chemicals can occur in a wide variety of settings, including workplaces, businesses, or even private homes. Some people suffer injuries through inhalation of toxic fumes in the air. Others experience harm through eating or drinking something that has been contaminated by a toxic chemical or suffer harm through chemical exposure on their skin. Toxic chemical exposures can occur suddenly, such as when a large tanker spills oil into the water, or gradually, such as when a worker develops an illness through repeated exposures every day at work over a period of years.
Regardless of how or where your exposure to toxic chemicals occurred, you deserve help. Our League City attorneys who is familiar with toxic chemical litigation could guide you through the legal process. We could review the details of what happened to you to determine how you suffered the exposure and who is potentially legally responsible for your injuries and other costs and losses.
We could help you gather sufficient evidence to help you build a solid claim for compensation against your employer, your landlord, a third party company, a municipality, or any other potentially responsible person or entity who injured you or your loved one by acting negligently or recklessly with the handling or storage of dangerous chemicals. We could analyze the facts and determine whether someone failed to take the appropriate safety precautions to lessen the possible risk of exposure. For instance, we could see if someone improperly or incorrectly stored, disposed, or labeled chemicals or toxic waste.
Injuries Occurring from Exposure to Dangerous Chemicals
Dangerous chemicals can pose both short and long-term effects in people. Sadly, children, elderly people, and people with compromised immune systems are most at risk of suffering the most severe effects. Some of the following are the damaging effects that can occur after an exposure to a toxic chemical:
- Nausea, stomach pain, or vomiting
- Headaches
- Dizziness
- Respiratory problems
- Rashes on skin
- Muscle spasms
- Losing consciousness
- Cancer
- Internal organ damage
- Reproductive system damage
Our League City attorneys could meet with you to uncover the full impact that your exposure to toxic chemicals has had on your life. In the sad event that a toxic chemical exposure caused the death of your loved one, we could also help you seek accountability in a wrongful death lawsuit.
Call a League City Attorney if You or a Loved One Were Negligently Exposed to Toxic Chemicals
Dangerous chemicals can pose a serious risk to people. If you believe you or your loved one developed an illness or medical condition because of your exposure to a toxic substance, a knowledgeable personal injury attorney might be able to help.
Call Schechter, Shaffer & Harris to speak with a League City toxic chemical exposure lawyer today about what you can do next.
