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The modern society has a heavy reliance on a vast array of toxic chemicals. From the chemicals that get added to pools to chemicals used for cleaning, exposure to some kind of chemical in your everyday life is pretty common. While you may be in control of exposing yourself to chemicals in your own environment at home, what you cannot control is what you are exposed to when you step out into the world.

Unfortunately, the potential to be exposed to something that is harmful to you when you visit a place of business is pretty major. You can sue for toxic chemical exposure with the help of a personal injury lawyer. Here are a few things you should know. 

1. Make sure the incident is properly documented. 

After the exposure to a toxic chemical occurs, make sure you talk to the business owner to ensure the incident is properly documented. Business owners have a legal obligation to report any and all on-site injuries to their insurance company in case you do file a claim against the company. If the incident does not get documented by the place of business, take the time to document the situation yourself by taking pictures with your phone or video. 

2. You must be able to prove the chemical caused you direct injury. 

Make sure you do seek medical care after the incident, even if the injuries you have sustained seem minuscule. In order to file a claim with a personal injury attorney, you will need some kind of direct documentation from a medical professional to prove how you were injured and what the extent of those injuries was. 

3. Negligence must be present on some level for a successful claim. 

Even if you are exposed to chemicals and they do cause you harm, you do have to prove that some kind of negligence is the underlying reason you were put at risk as a consumer in the first place. For example, if you go to the local pool supply store to pick up treatment chemicals for your pool at home, you can't just file a claim because you went to the store and were exposed and injured by a chemical without there being some kind of negligence involved. Maybe the store staff failed to clean up spilled chemicals, or perhaps there was a leaking bottle of pool chemicals that had coated a product you directly handled with bare hands.