by Russell Worth | Mar 13, 2015 | Accident at Work, Claims, News
A metal galvanising company in Forfar has been prosecuted after an agency worker suffered severe leg injuries when a 500-kilogram A-frame fell onto him from a forklift truck. 19-year-old Robert Ramsey from Dundee had been working at a premises owned by Forfar...
by Russell Worth | Mar 13, 2015 | Accident at Work, Claims, News
A conference has been announced by the Royal Society for the prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) to address a number of major health and safety issues facing construction workers in the UK. The Construction Health and Safety Conference, which will be held at Birmingham’s...
by Russell Worth | Mar 13, 2015 | Accident at Work, Claims, News
A farm owner has appeared in court after a worker died when he exposed to toxic gas. The man, in his 20s, died after being exposed to Hydrogen Sulphide whilst attempting to repair an anaerobic digestion (AD) plant. Anaerobic digestion (AD) is a term used to describe...
by Russell Worth | Mar 12, 2015 | Accident at Work, Claims, News
A firm in Somerset has been sentenced in court after a quarry blast saw huge rocks fired outside a designated safety zone. The rocks, weighting up to 15 kilos each, were sent flying across a public road and narrowly missed employees of WCD Sleeman and Sons Ltd. They...
by Russell Worth | Mar 12, 2015 | Claims, News, Sunbed Negligence
An unlicensed and experimental new drug has been fast-tracked to skin cancer patients under a new government scheme, in an effort to get pioneering drugs to seriously ill patients much quicker. Pembrolizumab, a treatment for advanced skin cancer, is the first medicine...
by Russell Worth | Mar 10, 2015 | Accident at Work, Claims, News
A construction company in Derbyshire has appeared in court after a scaffolder was severely injured when he fell through a fragile surface whilst working on a London supermarket. 31-year-old James Whelan from Wimbledon fell seven metres in the incident, fracturing...
