Miami Amputation Lawyer: Sean M. Cleary

After being involved in a motor vehicle accident, the crush injuries you suffer may be very severe. An amputation may be necessary if your limb is crushed beyond repair or burned without the possibility of being saved.

Amputation refers to the removal of a limb, which can be a part of a finger digit, an arm, or a leg. People often sustain amputations as a result of someone else's negligence or deliberate wrongful conduct. Frequently, these catastrophic injuries could have been avoided. Motor vehicle accidents leading to amputation are common among the following forms of transportation:

• Cars
• Motorcycles
• Trucks
• Tour buses
• Bicycles

Additionally, amputation injuries can be caused by a medical professional’s negligent actions. The most common cases of amputation of limbs and other body parts caused by medical malpractice include:

• Failure to diagnose and timely treat:

• A blood clot
• Compartment syndrome
• A patient with an injury to a limb
• Diabetes
• Pressure ulcers

• Failure to perform emergency surgery for the restoration of blood flow
• Fingers and toes amputation after heart surgery
• Wrong-site surgery
• Medication errors

Amputation caused by medical issues may make you eligible to claim compensation if medical negligence was involved in your case. When diseases are diagnosed and treated in the early stages, serious complications can be avoided. But when diseases become advanced and medical professionals fail to diagnose them early on, the amputation of a body part may become necessary.

If you had to have a surgical amputation because you did not receive the appropriate treatment due to a missed, delayed, or wrongful diagnosis, the medical professional who treated you may be found negligent. In this case, you may start a medical malpractice case to recover for the damage that the delay in treatment caused you.

People working on construction sites or employed in other workplaces that involve the use of heavy machinery, such as mines, quarries, and factories, are at a higher risk of suffering amputations. The causes of accident and injury can be diverse:

• Objects falling from heights and crushing a limb.
• A limb getting trapped in machinery.
• A limb getting severed by a cutting machine.
• Miners are at a high risk of being injured by explosions inside a confined space at great depth.
• Chemical spills are another common accident that may lead to amputation if the body part is so seriously injured that surgery is the only option.

Serious injuries can be caused by consumer products, such as:

• defective chairs
• kitchen appliances
• dangerous toys
• playground equipment
• recreational equipment

Amputation can also be caused by:

• chainsaws
• lawnmowers
• other tools with sharp blades or edges

Further dangerous products that, when defective, may cause amputation injuries, include:

• total release foggers
• fireworks
• faulty batteries

Amputation injuries can be caused by negligence associated with:

• boating
• jet skis
• yachts
• ATV accidents

The compression forces from a dog’s jaw are strong enough to crush the bones inside the body, resulting in a fracture where the bones are broken into several pieces. These injuries can even lead to amputations, especially in children.