Building Site Accident Cases
Case details
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Employers fail to provide proper equipment resulting in night porter injury
16 November 2011
Working as a night porter on the day of the accident, our client was required to set up a conference room. In order to do this he needed to move furniture from the store room. Furniture had been placed in the store room by members of staff during the day some of which had not been safely stacked or secured. On entering the room a piece of furniture fell onto our client and landed on his left toe – permanently deforming the nail.
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£90,000 Compensation for Man After Work Place Accident
10 June 2011
As a builder was assisting a colleague with putting up some guttering the scaffolding that he was standing on moved because it had not be affixed correctly. Our client fell and suffered a back injury which resulted in him losing his job as he could maintain the commitments of manual labour at the construction firm.
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£33,000 Compensation for Man Struck by Crane Hook
11 May 2011
A man who worked as a steel worker on a construction site was working in close proximity to a crane. As he was working he was struck in the face by a steel hook which was hanging from the overhead crane.
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£12,500 Compensation After Accident at Work
4 May 2011
A man was employed by a hardware company and was required to take some waste to the skip. Whilst he was doing this he tripped and fell down a man hole which had been left unmarked and uncovered.
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£40,000.00 Compensation After Lack of Health and Safety Regulations Result in Accident Leaving Man Blind
8 April 2011
Our client was working as a mechanic when he was involved in an accident at work. Some material of the machine he was working on broke off and struck his face, blinding him in one eye.
