by Russell Worth | Dec 6, 2016 | Accident Claims, Industrial Disease
An Ejector Seat manufacturer from Uxbridge has been fined £800,000 and ordered to pay costs of over £36,000 after three of their employees developed allergic alveolitis; a debilitating lung condition. Also known as hypersensitivity pneumonitis, the condition is the...
by Russell Worth | Nov 28, 2016 | Claims, News, Personal Injury
Powys County Council has been fined £75,000 and ordered to pay costs of £16,000 after a four-year-old boy nearly drowned during a swimming lesson. Swansea Crown Court heard how the boy’s father had gone to collect him from the lesson when he found him lying face down...
by Russell Worth | Nov 21, 2016 | Accident at Work, Accident Claims, Factory Accidents, Injury at Work
A maintenance company has been fined £120,000 and ordered to pay costs of nearly £9,000 after one of its workers fractured bones in his left foot when he fell 7 metres into a pulping machine. Manchester Crown Court heard how an employee of Valmet Ltd was instructed to...
by Russell Worth | Nov 14, 2016 | Claims
Jiffy Packaging Company Limited; manufacturers of the famous ‘Jiffy Bags’ along with other packaging and stationery products, has been fined £70,000 and ordered to pay costs of £53,509 after one of its workers lost a thumb in an accident at their premises in Cheshire....
by Russell Worth | Nov 14, 2016 | Accident at Work, Back Injury, Claims, Construction Site Accident, Head Injuries, Injury at Work, Ladder Fall Accident, News
Three companies have been fined a total of over £1million after workers fell around 16 metres when a temporary platform collapsed. A carpenter and a steel-fixer were working on a temporary platform above the opening to a stairwell on the 9th floor of a construction...
