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...
by Russell Worth | Apr 21, 2015 | Claims, News, repetitive strain injury
The number of people suffering with back and neck pain has risen by nearly ten per cent in the last year, new research by the British Chiropractic Association has revealed. The survey of over 2000 UK adults, carried out earlier this year, found that four in five of...
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...
