Burn Injuries
Atlanta, Georgia Personal Injury Lawyer


Heat, radiation, chemicals, or electricity can all cause burns. Burns are assessed in matters of degree: there are first, second, and third degree burns. Even a sunburn can result in a third degree burn. Burns covering large areas of the body can cause death; moreover, any hint of burn injury to the lungs, e.g., through smoke inhalation, is a serious medical emergency.

While most burns are considered the result of fire, burns can also be caused by chemical compounds, which are usually the result of workplace injury. Nitric acid is particularly horrid as a burn-causing chemical; hydrofluoric acid can eat down to the bone with burns not immediately evident. Chemical burns are particularly painful and oftentimes, fatal.

Electrical burns also occur, as the result of electric shock. Electrocution is a death due to electric shock, a deadly burn. The internal injuries sustained by electrical injury are much larger than the burns seen on the skin, which will involve only the electrical current's entry and exit wounds.

Hot fluids can cause a burn, such as boiling water or cooking oil. Gases, like steam, can burn as well. These scaldings usually do not result in death.

Cold burns can occur, too. Frostbite is a burn injury. Dry ice, liquid helium, and canned air can also result in cold burns.

Burn injuries require expensive and long-term medical treatment. Damages to burn victims also include lost wages, pain and suffering, and lost future earning capacity.

If you or a loved one has suffered a burn injury, please contact our firm for a free, initial consultation of possible legal remedies available to you.

For further information:

The International Society for Burn Injuries

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