by Russell Worth | Mar 10, 2015 | Claims, Industrial Disease, mesothelioma, News
Russell Worth is backing calls for a Government review into the presence of asbestos in UK schools after the BBC reported on figures suggesting that the material is present in almost nine in ten schools in the UK. The new figures, much higher than official estimates...
by Russell Worth | Mar 9, 2015 | Accident at Work, Claims, News
A cleaning company in Surrey has been prosecuted for safety failings after one of its employees suffered life-changing injuries when he fell six metres through a fragile roof light. The 36-year-old worker, who has asked not to be named, was one of a team sent by...
by Russell Worth | Mar 9, 2015 | Claims, News, Personal Injury
A lift company has been told that it must pay £100,000 in fines and costs after petrified tourists suffered broken legs and ankles when a vital mechanism failed on a Tower Bridge lift, causing it to fall into a service pit. The incident at the popular London landmark...
by Russell Worth | Mar 9, 2015 | Accident at Work, Claims, News
A building firm director was partially buried, a court has heard, when the high sides of an excavation collapsed on him. Paul Connolly, director of PNT Contractors Ltd, based in Bushey needed to be rescued by workers following the excavation collapse at an Essex site...
by Russell Worth | Mar 9, 2015 | Accident at Work, Claims, News
Two firms have been sentenced after a worker broke his leg when the brakes of his ride-on cleaning machine failed leading him to steer into a balustrade at Stansted airport. 28-year-old Carl Marshall was forced to veer into the balustrade after the brakes on his...
by Russell Worth | Mar 9, 2015 | Accident at Work, Claims, News
A printing company in Pontypridd has been fined after a worker’s hand got caught in a piece of machinery. The incident occurred when 51-year-old Eiron Atkins, from Pontypridd, was starting up a rotary textile printer at firm Treforest Textiles, Pontypridd Magistrates’...
