by Russell Worth | Mar 19, 2014 | Accident Claims, News, Personal Injury
A scaffolding firm has been fined £5,000 by Watford Magistrates’ Court after the HSE found the company to be in breach of health and safety after a painter and decorator fell from an unprotected ladder breaking his arm and dislocating his shoulder. Watford...
by Russell Worth | Mar 19, 2014 | Industrial Disease, News
A Hampshire man who used to work as a caretaker has died of malignant mesothelioma, an Inquest has heard. Mr Graham Gale, who was 62-years-old, died in November last year as a result of asbestos exposure during many years working as a caretaker. Dr Balvinder Shoker,...
by Russell Worth | Mar 14, 2014 | Medical Negligence, News
The Court of Appeal has cut through a ‘procedural muddle’ and breathed new life into a substantial damages claim brought by a woman who alleges that her life has been blighted by constant pain since she underwent a hysterectomy at an NHS hospital. The...
by Russell Worth | Mar 14, 2014 | Accident at Work, News
A heating, ventilation and air conditioning firm in Wednesbury has been fined thousands of pounds after a man was crushed to death whilst working in its warehouse. 58-year-old Ronald Meese, who was the company’s production supervisor, had been stacking metal tubes in...
by Russell Worth | Mar 12, 2014 | Accident at Work, News
A builder has been fined by Westminster Magistrates’ Court after two workers received second degree chemical burns from working in wet concrete for more than four hours. One of the workers who received severe chemical burns to both ankles required skin grafts...
by Russell Worth | Mar 7, 2014 | Accident at Work, Accident Claims, News
The BBC news website is reporting that a contractor for Crossrail in London has died in a shaft near Tottenham Court Road. The contractor is the first death at work to be reported in the £14.8bn rail scheme. The contractor sustained serious head injuries in the 10m...
