by Russell Worth | Dec 19, 2016 | Accident Claims, News, Personal Injury
A farmer from near Bradford on Avon has been fined and ordered to pay costs of £30,000 after two members of the public were injured – one fatally – by cows in his field. The two elderly brothers; Mike and John Porter, were walking their dogs on leads along a public...
by Russell Worth | Dec 19, 2016 | Accident at Work, Brain Injuries, Ladder Fall Accident
The truck, bus and plant division of the vehicle manufacturer Volvo has been fined £900,000 and ordered to pay costs of nearly £6,000 after one of its workers fell from a ladder and suffered life-changing injuries. The employee was servicing a large delivery truck at...
by Russell Worth | Dec 12, 2016 | Accident at Work, Forklift Accidents, Head Injuries, Injury at Work
An industrial equipment supplier has been fined £86,666 and ordered to pay costs of over £12,000 after a work-experience student was injured on their first ever day of work. Stafford Crown Court heard how the youth was assisting in the delivery of a heavy electrical...
by Russell Worth | Dec 6, 2016 | Accident at Work, Injury at Work, Ladder Fall Accident
An international engineering company has been fined £200,000 and ordered to pay costs of nearly £60,000 after one of their employees died when he fell 30 feet from an electricity pylon. Bilfinger Industrial Services UK Ltd were investigated by the Health and Safety...
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...
