An employee of one company is injured through the fault of another cmpny,can he directly sue those responsible?

Hey, they can't sue for breach of contract but they can sue for negligence. Suing someone for negligence doesn't depend on you being employed by them or having a contract with them. As long as you can establish they owed you a duty of care then you can make a claim.

Here you could argue that there was sufficient proximity that DEF owed a duty of care to the man. It would then just be a case of establishing that is was breached which caused damage, which on the facts seems to be satisfied.

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I'm no lawyer, but i'm pretty sure that if you could prove negligence on the part of either, you could sue either. it works sorta like this. basically, it's Bad for the company in court if:

The accident involved a piece of safety equipment malfunctioning.

Others have or have had similar accidents

it can be proved that the company knew about a problem in said equipment but failed to fix it.

you can prove that the negligence was solely, or almost entirely on DEF employees.

DEF owns the site.

If ABC owns the site, they might be liable for negligence, circumstantially.

It's also more likely he'd win if the injury crippled him, but for the sake of this theoretical contractor, I'd hope not.

to sum up, ABC would likely not face any repercussions in court, but if you can prove DEF as a whole company or as a branch or group, or whatever, knew their was a safety issue and failed to fix it, you can totally sue, but probably more for Negligence and such rather than breach of contract. but, if they screwed up real bad, I'd guess ABC might sue them, depending on the circumstances.

Assuming that the man is on site as a representative of ABC, then he would have to deal with everything through ABC, and ABC would be the ones to deal with DEF on the subject.

You posted on Y!A UK, so I don't know the particulars of the laws in the UK. In the US, he would file for workers comp through his employer since he was there for official ABC business, and as an employee of ABC.

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The injured party is eligible for workers compensation through their own company providing the injury happened while they were working and the injury is work related. Being treated by workers comp limits your legal actions.

Otherwise, you can sue for negligence, if there was negligence involved.

A good lawyer will go after everyone on his behalf, no question.

All he needs to do is find a good attorney, and they will do the rest.

Tell him NOT to rely on his direct employer suing the subcontractor - their interests are not the same.

He needs his own lawyer.