Health & Safety 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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Faulty Machinery at Work Leads to Injury
6 June 2011
Our client was injured when a wheel on the cage he was pushing fell off. The cage toppled over and trapped his arm against the wall.
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Insufficient Working Equipment Leaves Woman with Serious Burns to Body
2 June 2011
A woman was asked by her employers to fill a bucket of hot water. She filled half the bucket with water and switched the tap off. As she went to lift the bucket it slipped out of her hands as there was no handle on it.
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Loose Parcel Causes Injury to Man's Eye
19 May 2011
A man was unloading parcels from a van when an item fell from the van, causing our client injury to his left eye
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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.
