Pages On: Hand Injuries
Suffering an injury to the hand can be a horrible limitation to your life. Our hands are made-up of a complex structure of bones and tendons, which can make everyday-tasks difficult if damaged. Even minor injuries can affect your ability to work and experience life. It is in this spirit that compensation claims are assessed, especially as there is little alternative to using our hands for most things. If you have suffered a hand injury, and it wasn’t your fault, you may be entitled to claim personal injury compensation.
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…
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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…
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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…
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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’…
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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…
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