March 21st, 2010
Here at Pryers solicitors in York we have just represented a claimant who was a prison officer. He suffered personal injury during the course of his employment. Whilst accompanying one of his colleagues who was driving a vehicle within the prison grounds, the claimant had to open a security gate and whilst he was standing by the gate, his colleague, attempting to drive through the entrance, trapped the claimant between the vehicle and the gate causing a significant shoulder injury.
Liability for the accident was disputed by the employer’s representatives who maintained that the claimant was the author of his own misfortune.
We successfully argued breaches of Health and Safety regulations and the claimant received compensation of almost £14,000.
Tags: Breaches, Claimant, Colleague, Colleagues, Health And Safety, Injury Liability, Misfortune, Personal Injury Claim, Prison Grounds, Prison Officer, Safety Regulations, Security Gate, Shoulder Injury, Solicitors
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March 15th, 2010
Pyers recently r
epresented a claimant who was employed in a children’s nursery. She suffered an accident whilst required to use a ladder in order to gain access to reset a defective electrical consumer unit. The ladder slipped and the claimant fell some distance suffering multiple minor injuries.
Liability and the value of the personal injury claim were both disputed by the employer’s insurers who maintained that the claimant was the author of her own misfortune.
We successfully argued breaches of Health and Safety regulations and the claimant received compensation of £5,400.
Tags: Breaches, Claimant, Health And Safety, Ladder Fall, Minor Injuries, Misfortune, Personal Injury Claim, Safety Regulations, Wins, Woman
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November 5th, 2009
A food manufacturing company has been ordered to pay out £94,523 in fines and court costs after a worker suffered a severe injury to his hand.
Ludmila Jurkevica, 27, from King’s Lynn, was attempting to clear a blockage in a packaging machine when three of his fingers got crushed.
Tulip Packaging of Warwick was fined £65,000 and ordered to pay costs of £29,523 over the injury, which occurred in November 2007.
Speaking after the verdict at Norwich Crown Court, Health and Safety Executive inspector Steven Gill said: "This was a nasty incident which could have been avoided had the company checked how safe the machinery was and taken precautions to protect staff.
"Machines like these can be incredibly dangerous and cause serious injury."
In a similar incident heard in court last month, Orica UK of Wigan was fined £10,000 after an employee lost two fingers when trying to remove a blockage from a machine.
Tags: Food Manufacturer, Food Manufacturing, Health And Safety, Health And Safety Executive, Lost, Manufacturing Company, Norwich Crown Court, Packaging Machine, Two Fingers, Warwick, Wigan
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November 3rd, 2009
A welder from Liverpool has won £140,000 in compensation after he contracted terminal cancer from working with asbestos.
Ronnie Cadwallader, 76, was diagnosed with mesothelioma in November 2007 after spending part of his working life stripping asbestos lagging off pipes, turbines and boilers.
His wife Ann told the Livepool Daily Post: "Ronnie was so fit and healthy, always running and never smoked or drank. All of a sudden he was really poorly with no energy.
"It was horrific."
His two-year struggle for compensation was made more complex by the fact that the two firms he had carried out such work for were no longer in business.
But Mr Cadwallader has finally been offered compensation by insurance firm Zurich, which was the insurer for one of his former employers, Carolina Engineering.
The Health and Safety Executive has recently launched a campaign to raise awareness about the dangers of working with asbestos aimed at tradesman and maintenance workers.
Tags: Asbestos Compensation, Boilers, Cadwallader, Health And Safety, Health And Safety Executive, Insurance, Insurance Firm, Insurer, Liverpool, Maintenance Workers, Mesothelioma, Pipes, Stripping, Struggle, Terminal Cancer, Tradesman, Turbines, Wife Ann, Zurich
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November 2nd, 2009
A hospital trust is facing a compensation claim after it was fined £10,000 when a vulnerable patient in its care fell out of a first-floor window and suffered serious injuries.
North East Essex Primary Care Trust admitted breaching Section 3(1) of the Health and Safety at Work Act after Charles Preston, a partially-sighted 68-year-old, suffered breaks to his shoulder, pelvis and coccyx when he fell.
The incident occurred at the Clacton & District Hospital in March 2008.
Following the court ruling, Mr Preston has announced his intention to sue the trust.
Kim Wicks, the Health and Safety Executive inspector who investigated the case, said the accident could have been avoided.
"The control measures, in this case window restrictors, to prevent this risk are easy to fit and maintain," she said.
Last week, the Herald reported that student Jonathan Harvey was going to sue Plymouth City Council after he fell 20ft through a broken fence on council property.
Tags: Broken Fence, Case Window, Charles Preston, Clacton, Coccyx, Compensation Claim, Control Measures, East Essex, Health And Safety, Health And Safety At Work, Health And Safety At Work Act, Health And Safety Executive, Hospital Trust, Jonathan Harvey, Pelvis, Plymouth City Council, Primary Care Trust, Safety At Work, Section 3
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