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...
by Russell Worth | Apr 21, 2015 | Accident at Work
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) recently reported on a case involving contract workers who were working at height without adequate safety measures and therefore putting pedestrians at risk. The contractors were working on a tower platform in St Helens with...
by Russell Worth | Apr 20, 2015 | Accident at Work, Construction Site Accident |
A firm in Nottinghamshire has appeared in court after a young employee severed the majority of his forearm in a machine which was not guarded correctly. Mark Marshall, from Retford, was employed by Kybotech Ltd when the incident occurred in July 2013. He was working...
by Russell Worth | Apr 20, 2015 | Accident at Work, Claims, News |
A steel company in Sheffield has appeared in court after a catalogue of safety errors led to a worker being killed in December 2012. 42-year-old Robert Ismay, a father-of-three from Thirsk, was delivering bundles of steel tubes, 7.5 metres in length to Daver Steels...
by Russell Worth | Apr 17, 2015 | Claims, Industrial Disease |
A new report launched today (16th April) by the Action on Hearing Loss charity has revealed that drugs to treat hearing conditions could be available within the next five years. The charity expects that, by 2020, the first drugs will be approved and on the market, as...
by Russell Worth | Apr 17, 2015 | Accident at Work, Claims, Injury at Work, News |
A South Wales company will begin working with Cardiff University’s school of engineering to create an innovative new alternative to scaffolding, which it is hoped will lower the number of scaffolding accidents each year. Voltcom Group, based in Llantrisant, South...
