Whether you’ve even been to a Costco store or not, you probably don’t know how gigantic the company is. As of 2019, it’s ranked 15th on the Fortune 500 rankings of the biggest U.S. companies on total revenue. Costco is so big that it has about 770 warehouse discount club stores throughout North America, Asia, and the United Kingdom.
The company even has 10 warehouse large stores in Australia, two in Spain and one each in France and Iceland. In Southern California, there are about 120 Costcos. In 2018, Costco’s total revenue was $141.6 billion, and it employed an estimated 205,000 employees. You can buy just about anything that you need for your home or a small business at a Costco store. For those who are about to be the dearly departed, Costco even sells caskets.
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The point is: Costco is a huge corporation. For this reason, it can be hard to hold a large store like this account if you are injured inside one. A public accident in any store can have serious health consequences that result in high medical bills, lost wages, and even pain and mental anxiety.
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It’s important to remember that, despite the vast legal resources a big box store like Costco has, you can still file a legitimate legal claim against them if you suffered a serious injury inside. Learn more about frequent injuries sustained in this situation and how you can file a successful compensation claim.
At Steers & Associates, you can schedule a free consultation with an injury lawyer to discuss your case. If you lost a loved one due to this type of accident, we could walk you through the process of filing a wrongful death claim involving the store. Steers & Associates has the resources to fight back against a large corporation and will help you file a premises liability claim that compensates you for your fall/injury incident.
What Should I Do If I Suffered An Accident At A Costco In California?
If you have been injured in a Costco store in California, you should first get help from a medical doctor. You can get a spinal cord injury, or even head and brain trauma from an incident like this. We discuss the most common injury incidents below. First, always seek medical care to make sure you haven’t been seriously injured or sustained any other serious harm. Next, call a Costco accident injury lawyer for a free case evaluation.
Discount warehouse clubs like Costco are typically heavy with customers and light on employees on the floors. Like any other retailer, California law imposes a duty on Costco to maintain any premises that it occupies in a reasonably safe condition that is free from hazards that might cause a personal injury to its customers.
That includes a duty to periodically inspect the business premises for any conditions that might cause a customer to trip or fall. Here are some of the conditions that might result in slip-and-fall accidents in a Costco store:
- Uneven floor surfaces or slippery floors.
- Damaged floor surfaces.
- Merchandise racks or displays.
- Electrical cords laid down across aisles.
- Merchandise in aisles.
- Pallets left in aisles.
- Poor stairway lighting.
- Holes in poorly lit parking lots.
What Are the Most Common Slip and Fall Injuries?
The mechanics of slip-and-fall accidents and serious injuries are entirely different. Slip-and-fall accidents at Costco involve a loss of friction between a victim’s feet and a walking surface. He or she ordinarily falls backward. Fall accidents often involve a condition or obstruction that interferes with a victim’s stride while shopping at Costco.
Many injuries from slip-and-fall accidents at Costco involve the back of the head, neck and spine. Some injuries are to the front of the victim, including his or her face and teeth.
Here are some of the other injuries that can occur in either type of fall accident at Costco:
- Traumatic brain and spinal cord injuries.
- Serious injuries to the spinal column.
- Fractures and dislocations.
- Soft tissue personal injuries.
If you have suffered injuries, especially a serious injury, Costco stores should be held responsible for any unsafe conditions they created that contributed to the fall. Devastating injuries can occur when a floor is wet or hazards are left laying around, and our injury attorneys know precisely how to hold stores accountable for this negligence.
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Our law firm has extensive experience with Costco accidents, and can uncover pertinent evidence indicating precisely which hazardous condition existed at the time of your fall. Costco should be held accountable when negligent, and our team stops at nothing to fight for a successful claim on behalf of injured clients.
Report Even a Minor Slip Accident to Costco Right Away
You should report your accident to the manager of the Costco store on the premises right away along with the circumstances that caused your fall. Try to get contact information for any witnesses. Only give Costco as much as it needs to know. That would be your name and contact information and what caused your injuries.
Request a copy of that report for your accident claim. Don’t hesitate to call 911 as soon as possible for paramedics and an ambulance is they’re needed. If you or somebody with you can get photographs of the condition that caused your fall, get them right away. Seek immediate medical attention. After you leave the hospital, call us today for a free consultation.
What Defenses Can Be Used by Costco?
Expect Costco to use allegations that you weren’t watching where you were walking. It may even argue that if it was at fault for the accident, you were partially at fault too. What it’s not going to tell you is that even if you were partially at fault, a personal injury attorney can help you recover significant damages once you take legal action, especially under the law of pure comparative negligence in California.
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From traumatic brain injuries to broken bones, a serious accident can occur at any moment. If there was negligent maintenance, unsafe conditions present in the store, or other forms of negligent conduct, you can hold Costco accountable.
After notifying the Costco store management of your slip-and-fall, don’t give any other written report, recorded statements, or medical records to anybody from Costco, no matter what they might tell you. Rather than hurting any accident claim that you might have, call us today for a free consultation and accident claim review with a personal injury attorney from the law firm of Steers & Associates.
At Steers and Associates, we are proud of our strong attorney-client relationship and are proud in helping our clients with different types of accident claims. If you need to seek compensation for a serious injury from a Costco injury incident, contact us for a free consultation, our law firm is here to help.
