Industrial Deafness 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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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
