Over £100,000 for worker injured by falling work equipment

My client had been assisting at work with the loading of a HGV trailer. The trailer had been fully packed with goods, so much so that the rear doors could not be easily closed. Another worker decided to put a hay bale on the forks of his forklift truck and then push the bale against […]

Compensation for hearing loss caused by dangerous work equipment

We recently succeeded in recovering £25,000 in compensation for a client who had suffered hearing loss as a result of an accident at work. The claimant worked as a general caretaker and had various roles, for which he was provided with numerous different machines and vehicles. One of these was an excavator which was around […]

Over £50,000 for worker injured by unsafe machine

A client recently received over £50,000 in compensation for a serious hand injury that he suffered at work. My client had been required to perform a task using a machine which was not adequate for the load being worked on. Part way through the job, the heavy load fell on to my client’s hand causing […]

Compensation for worker injured by faulty table saw

This client suffered an injury to his hand whilst working, due to a defective guard on his table saw machine. Instead of protecting my client from coming into contact with the blade, the guard failed and caused his hand to be cut badly by the blade. A claim for damages was submitted to the employer and liability was […]

Over £25,000 for worker injured by unsuitable equipment

This case related to a claim by a carpenter who had been instructed to perform a very specialist task using some newly purchased work equipment. However, the tool that he was provided with was not suitable for the job and the entire method in fact turned out to be incorrect and unsafe. As a result […]

Another fight for compensation for worker injured by colleague

In this case, the claimant was injured whilst working at a large shop in Ipswich, Suffolk. An altercation involving a customer had led to one of the claimant’s colleagues running across the store to intervene. However, in running across the store, that colleague collided into the claimant at speed, knocking them to the ground and […]

Construction worker injured by unsafe scaffolding

Significant compensation was recently recovered for a client who was injured whilst working on a construction site. The claimant suffered a serious leg injury when his foot slipped between two scaffold boards at first floor level on a housing development site. The scaffold boards had not been properly secured and, due to their position near […]

Over £20,000 recovered for worker injured by faulty truck

My client suffered significant injuries in the workplace when a loading ramp on the back of a truck suddenly fell and landed on him. The accident was caused by a defect in the truck’s hydraulic system which the employer had previously been made aware of. The employer admitted liability for failing to decommission the truck prior to the […]

What has been done to protect 600,000 people injured at work each year?

In 2016, the Health & Safety Executive reported that there had been 621,000 non-fatal injuries to workers. According to that same report, only around 12% of accidents were officially reported (under RIDDOR) by the employer. From this data, we can calculate that around 8,000 non-fatal injuries at work occur each year in Suffolk alone (the HSE regional data […]

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