Lawson-West personal injury solicitors have successfully acted for employees injured at work through no fault of their own and have included some of these successful case studies on our Accident Compensation Stories blog. Click here to see all our Accident at Work Case Studies or click on the individual stories below.
Our client was instructed to manually move an unwrapped pallet from a lift table where it had become jammed. Two colleagues helped, however, our client's foot slipped and his hand became caught under the pallet, causing injury.
Our client was employed as a Bakery Assistant and was working in the preparation area when he was instructed to scrape out sandwich filling from a bowl when the lid slammed down, trapping our client and causing a back injury as a result of having to use faulty equipment.
Our client, employed as a labourer working on the installation of industrial flooring, had been provided with latex gloves to use when he had to work with resin. He developed a rash which his GP suspected was caused by the resin. His employer failed to provide further protective equipment and our client developed a severe allergic rash. Despite this, his employer kept him in the same working environment for four months and eventually his employment was terminated due to sickness.
Our client was provided with a van to use for collecting goods for recycling. However, the van had a low roof and did not have a tail lift so our client had to climb into the van to ensure its load was safe. The low roof meant our client was continually stooping and suffered a hernia.
Our client was a warehouse operative who had to sort bags of mail. The mailbags arrived in containers. Our client had to climb on the containers to pull the mailbags forward. As no steps were provided, our client had to find a way down from the containers. The height from the floor to container was roughly the same height as from the floor to her knees. At one point, in trying to get down from the containers, she suffered a sprained ankle and torn ligaments.
Our client was told by another employee that one of the machines kept stopping. The machine was a single-wrap machine used to wrap industrial kitchen towels in film. Our client was required to see if he could resolve the problem before calling an engineer, even though our client had no specific experience of this particular machine. Our client had not been given any training on this specific machine, so was relying on previous experience with similar machines which suggested that the blade would not operate with the guard open. Suddenly a blade came down, moved back a short way and then quickly came down two to three times. This caught our client completely by surprise and he sustained hand injuries as a result.
Our client was employed as a school cook and received a delivery of juice cartons wrapped in cling film and delivered in pre-packed cages. As she was unpacking the juice cartons, a solid pack of food fell from underneath the orange juice, causing a fractured toe and severe bruising. There were witnesses to the accident.
There are more accident at work case studies on our blog.
