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Berkshire man receives £150,000 for life-changing workplace injuries

Posted: 12 April 2016

Posted in: Arm Injury, Employer Negligence, Workplace Injuries

A Berkshire man in his 40s has been awarded £150,000 after sustaining life-changing injuries at his place of work. The man, a scaffolder, had been descending a 13-foot metal ladder to reach the ground from the first floor of the scaffolding when the ladder slipped. Work was being carried out on a block of flats in West London during 2012 when the accident occurred. It transpired that the ladders had not been adequately attached to the scaffolding by the construction company who contracted him. As a result, as soon as the scaffolder climbed on…

Woman leaves M&S with ‘horrific’ burns

Posted: 29 July 2015

Posted in: Arm Injury, Leg Injuries, Public Place Accidents, Shop Accidents

A 44-year-old woman from Welwyn Garden City has suffered ‘horrific’ burns after trying to buy tea in the Howard Centre’s Marks & Spencer café last week. Donna O’Neill had two pots of boiling water poured over her, resulting in serious burns to her legs and arms. She claims that the design of the café’s counter is highly dangerous, and has called for something to be done to prevent the accident from happening again. Miss O’Neill said that she does not blame the store’s junior staff for the incident, but said…

Over £12,000 to Bradford council worker over toilet seat injury

Posted: 22 July 2015

Posted in: Employer Negligence, Finger Injuries, Workplace Injuries

According to recently released figures, over £30million has been paid out to council workers since 2012, including a payment of over £12,000 to an employee that was ‘hit by a toilet lid when flushing’. The figures were released following a Freedom of Information request, which revealed that over 3,100 compensation payments were made to council employees over the last three years. Councils have since been urged to improve health and safety measures in the workplace. The claims ranged from slip, trips and falls to unstable objects falling and causing injury.…

Prisoner has fingers severed by toilet during struggle

Posted: 27 May 2015

Posted in: Finger Injuries, Personal Injury

An investigation has been launched into Essex Police after a prisoner had three fingers severed while in custody. The 33-year-old was being detained in a Colchester police station in Essex when he grabbed hold of a toilet bowl in his cell during a struggle and lost the tips of three of his fingers. The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) has since launched an investigation. The IPCC will investigate claims made that the prisoner was handcuffed after the incident happened, and allegations of a time delay in taking the prisoner to…

Dog that attacked police officer saved from destruction

Posted: 8 May 2015

Posted in: Animal Attacks, Hand Injuries, Workplace Injuries

The owner of a Staffordshire bull terrier that attacked a police officer has saved his dog from destruction by claiming that he attacked due to fear of the high-viz jacket. Michael Leech’s dog, Milo, bit Pc Philip Raymond twice after Mr Leech and his girlfriend had an argument in the street. Milo was due to be destroyed by order of a judge at Manchester Crown Court, but a dog behavioural expert provided evidence that his aggressiveness could be stopped if he were to be ‘castrated’. It was heard in court…

Brothers issued suspended sentence for dog attack

Posted: 23 March 2015

Posted in: Animal Attacks, Arm Injury, Leg Injuries

Two brothers have been issued suspended jail sentences after their dogs attacked a woman and bit her more than 60 times. Teresa Stinton was attacked by the dogs in Leominster, Herefordshire in June 2014 while out walking. The owners of the dogs – 27-year-old Kenneth Stutchberry, and brother, 22-year-old Andrew Stutchberry – both pleaded guilty to owning dangerously out of control dogs that caused injury. Both men have been banned from keeping dogs for the rest of their lives. In a statement made at Hereford Crown Court, the attack victim…

Firefighter wins six-figure sum for fall

Posted: 15 March 2015

Posted in: Arm Injury, Falls from Heights, Workplace Injuries

A severely injured firefighter has been awarded a six-figure compensation payout four years after he fell from a broken ladder. Michael Hollings had been working in the service for eight years when he suffered the injuries during a training exercise. He had been climbing a 13.5m ladder when it cracked and he fell to the ground in May 2011. Mr Hollings was attached to the top of the ladder by a harness, landed on a solid fence, leaving him suspended six inches from the ground. The fall left him with…

Schools payout £1.5m in injury compensation

Posted: 30 September 2014

Posted in: Finger Injuries, Public Place Accidents, School Accidents

Over the last five years alone, Greater Manchester schools have paid out £1.5million in compensation to injured school children. With the majority of accidents stemming from ‘basic health and safety failings’, health and safety consultants argue that not enough is being done to protect children in schools. Accidents ranged from children being hit by falling goal posts to fingers being trapped in broken gates. Across Greater Manchester there was a total of 255 successful personal injury claims, more claims than Birmingham and Greater London put together. Of the ten boroughs in Greater…

Worker wins £40k compensation for hand injury

Posted: 28 August 2014

Posted in: Faulty Work Equipment, Hand Injuries, Workplace Injuries

A worker who injured his hand while operating an aluminium-rolling machine has won £40,000 in compensation.  Robert Gibbons, from Wallsend, had been operating a machine used to roll aluminium sheeting into shape when his hand became caught in the rollers. His right hand, which is also his dominant hand, was left seriously fractured and deformed. Mr Gibbons worked for Alnmaritec, a boatbuilding company, when the accident happened. The machine he had been operating, a Flat Bar Pyramid Rolls machine, was controlled using a foot pedal. The machine was meant to stop…

Illegal dog causes injury to owner's friend

Posted: 9 August 2014

Posted in: Animal Attacks, Hand Injuries, Personal Injury

A man that had been walking an illegal fighting dog in public claimed that he did not know that the dog was dangerous. Sean Mills (38) had been looking after his friend’s dog when it attacked another dog while out on a walk. Mr Mills had been walking Kaydee on the 28th of December when the accident happened, seriously injuring the other dog and himself. Mr Mills attempted to break up the fight and injured his own hand as a result. Kaydee, a pit bull terrier, was found to already be subject…

How is war veteran limb-loss compensation calculated?

Posted: 4 June 2014

Posted in: Arm Injury, Armed Forces Injuries, Leg Injuries, Workplace Injuries

The UK currently provides medical care, physical therapy and the necessary prosthetics for military servicemen injured in the line of duty. The UK, and the US, also provides compensation to veterans who have lost a limb; however, the question is frequently asked, how are these compensation rates determined? Meagan Lutz, a public affairs specialist with the Veteran’s Administration, said that it is a difficult and complicated sum to calculate, as all personal injuries affect people differently. However, the general premise is that compensation is based on an estimated average of how much…

Heinz worker has hand sliced off by unguarded machine

Posted: 19 May 2014

Posted in: Employer Negligence, Faulty Work Equipment, Hand Injuries, Workplace Injuries

The food giant Heinz has been fined after an engineer had his hand sliced off by a potato-peeling machine. The worker suffered “life-changing injuries” in the accident that could easily have been avoided at the Heinz factory in Norfolk. 49-year-old Alec Brackenbury had been servicing the machine at the company’s Westwick plant in Worstead when the accident happened last June. Mr Brackenbury is unable to work, drive or carry out many of his day-to-day duties as a result of the accident. The company received a fine of £50,000 at Norwich Magistrates’…

5-year-old receives compensation for nursery injury

Posted: 15 March 2014

Posted in: Finger Injuries, Personal Injury, Public Place Accidents, School Accidents

A 5-year-old girl has been awarded with compensation after getting her finger trapped in a door at nursery when she was just 8-months-old. Mackenzie Miller, from Amble, got her finger caught in a fire door at Brambles Childcare Centre in 2009. A judge at Morpeth County Court ruled that the nursery had a duty of care, and ordered them to compensate the young girl for her injury. Mackenzie has been left with a deformed finger as a result of the accident. Mackenzie had been following a teacher through the fire door when…

School injury claims at an all-time high

Posted: 9 March 2014

Posted in: Finger Injuries, Public Place Accidents, School Accidents

Over the last year alone, Bradford Council has seen personal injury claims concerning injured pupils almost double.  With claims ranging from children tripping over chairs to children being hit by a swinging school bell, Bradford Council has been bombarded by claims in the past financial year. One teaching union said that the figures were a reflection of our “compensation culture”. 2012/13 saw 25 claims being made against the local authority, yet none of which actually led to payouts. The figures were released as a result of a request under the Freedom of…

Ashbury Chocolates fined £5,000 following worker's severed finger

Posted: 20 June 2013

Posted in: Faulty Work Equipment, Finger Injuries, Workplace Injuries

Ashbury Chocolates, a chocolate making company from Corby, Northamptonshire, has been fined £5,000 after an employee’s finger was severed when cleaning the machinery. After the company admitted to breaching equipment regulations at Kettering Magistrates’ Court, they were fined £5,000, on top of which they had to pay costs of £3,500 and a victim surcharge of £15.  Joao Countinho, aged 41 from Peterborough, was cleaning the part of the machine which pipes liquid chocolate into moulds, called the depositor, on the 29th of February last year. Prosecutors say he reached up to…

Waste industry dangers highlighted in court

Posted: 18 April 2013

Posted in: Arm Injury, Faulty Work Equipment, Workplace Injuries

A Lincoln man suffered life-changing injuries because of a series of safety failings at the waste recycling plant where he worked in Scunthorpe, a court has heard. The 25-year-old worker had his arm severed when he tried to clear a blockage on a conveyor forming part of a metal sorting line. The man was in hospital for a week but surgeons were unable to reattach the arm. He has been unable to return to work since the incident. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE), which investigated, prosecuted the company after…

Engineering firm fined after worker loses finger

Posted: 6 March 2013

Posted in: Faulty Work Equipment, Finger Injuries, Workplace Injuries

A Leicester engineering company has been fined after an employee’s finger was crushed in machinery. Benjamin Asare was using a pneumatic press to insert bearings into their housings when the ram came down onto his right hand. His index finger was crushed and had to be amputated. Due to on-going problems related to his injuries he has not been able to return to work. A Health and Safety Executive (HSE) investigation into the incident found that the ram of the machine was running significantly faster than it should – an…

Burton builder fined after chainsaw injures contractor

Posted: 18 December 2012

Posted in: Employer Negligence, Hand Injuries, Workplace Injuries

A Burton upon Trent builder has been fined for dangerous working practices and for failing to report an incident after a Derbyshire worker seriously injured his hand on a chainsaw. The worker caught his left hand on the moving teeth of the machine after it snagged during work to cut felled trees. His thumb was cut to the bone, breaking the joint, and he also injured his fingers. He was unable to work for six weeks. Stafford Magistrates Court heard that in March 2012 the worker had been sub-contracted to…

Compensation for an Arm Injury in Bradford

Posted in: Arm Injury, Personal Injury

If you have injured your arm in an accident that was not your fault, then you could be entitled to claim compensation. When talking about compensation for an arm injury, this is not restricted to one area, such as the upper arm or the lower arm. You can make a claim for either the upper arm or the lower arm, or both. Compensation claims can also be made for a personal injury to the wrist, the hand, and the fingers. Arm Injury Accident Claims Arm injuries can be caused in…