by Russell Worth | Apr 24, 2015 | Accident at Work
A number of road building firms have appeared in court after a road worker suffered horrendous arm injuries as a result of it becoming entangled in a machine used for road surfacing. Three construction businesses were told they must pay over £400,000 in fines and...
by Russell Worth | Apr 24, 2015 | Claims, Industrial Disease, Tinnitus Compensation
For the first time, signals relating to tinnitus have been mapped out in the brain of a patient undergoing surgery. The patient, a 50-year-old man suffering with intractable epilepsy, was showing signs of tinnitus but being monitored for two weeks to trace the cause...
by Russell Worth | Apr 24, 2015 | Accident at Work, Back Injury, Claims, News |
We’re taking part in On Your Feet Britain (OYFB) this Friday (24th April) and pledging our support for a more active community. The event, run by Get Britain Standing and the British Heart Foundation (BHF) has been set up to tackle the large number of health problems...
by Russell Worth | Apr 23, 2015 | Accident at Work, Claims, News |
A construction contractor has been fined £2,000 together with £1,002 in costs after he and another worker were injured. Haverford West Magistrates Court heard on Tuesday (21st April) that one worker was knocked unconscious in the incident whilst the other worker...
by Russell Worth | Apr 22, 2015 | Accident at Work, Claims, News
A worker suffered back, leg and hip fractures when a piling hammer broke free and knocked him over, a court has heard. 62-year-old Eric Wilson from Hartlepool, was controlling the four-tonne piling hammer when the incident occurred in September 2012. It was suspended...