Pages On: Finger Injuries
Finger injuries are usually not too severe or life-threatening, but the fallout from a finger injury, whichever finger it may be, can affect many of the day-to-day things we take for granted. If you have lost a finger, or they have been rendered unusable, it may affect your ability to work. The compensation for each different finger injury will take into account how it has affected your life, not just how bad the injury itself is. If you have suffered a finger injury in an accident that wasn’t your fault, you may be entitled to personal injury compensation.
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.…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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