Workplace injury claim

Alan Snook, 61, from Frome, Somerset who damaged his shoulder while at work, has received compensation. The lorry driver was working as a shunter for Wincanton Logistics on the firm’s Comet contract when the accident happened in July 2009. His job involved moving and unloading lorries full of scrap from Comet’s home delivery depots, and often the 40ft articulated lorries were full of discarded household appliances. On the day of the accident Mr Snook opened the back of the lorr....

Two people were killed in an oil refinery accident at the Chevron Plant in Pembroke Dock, South-west Wales. The accident occurred on Thursday 2nd June at about 6.20pm when two petrol tanks collided inside the Chevron refinery plant in Pembroke Dock, Dyfed killing both drivers. Fire-fighters were called from across the area to extinguish the blaze along with Para-medics. “I saw a huge plume of smoke. It was black and filled the sky. It must have been 50 metres wide.” Marcus Lutwyche, ....

Compensation claims are being made by the families of four soldiers killed in Iraq on the basis that the MOD failed to provide armoured vehicles or equipment which could have saved the lives of the soldiers. The Claims relate to concerns about equipment after a British Challenger tank opened fire on another British Challenger tank and incidents in which soldiers died when Snatch Land Rovers hit improvised bombs.  Cpl Kirk Redpath, 22, of Romford, Essex, was killed by a road side bomb with ....

Mark Conett, 36, from Crewken, who worked for a metal engineering company based in Chard junction, Metaltech Precision Ltd, fractured his left knee and ankle in a fork lift accident on 29th July 2009 . He was directing colleagues who were moving a load of angle irons with a fork when the accident occurred at his employer’s workplace. The forklift truck tipped over and the load landed on Mr. Conett. Yeovil Magistrates Court heard that during the Health and Safety investigation, it was d....

One of the largest potato growers in the United Kingdom, Waldersley Farms Limited, was prosecuted after one of its workers was severely injured by an overhead power cable. David McMullan, from County Antrim in Northern Ireland, was lifting an irrigation pipe when it struck the 33,000 volt cable. He suffered serious burns, internal damage and had to have his big toe amputated following the accident at work. Mr McMullan’s employer, Waldersley Farms Limited, was fined £10,000 and or....

An electrical engineer from Essex was set on fire in a Horrific Work Accident. Paul Ridings, of South Benfleet, who was working for Lafarge Cement UK, in Leicester suffered serious injuries when he was caught in a fireball from an electrical explosion. The explosion occurred in October 2008 when Mr Ridings was working on a faulty energy meter. He was investigating a fault with an energy meter when he inadvertently disturbed a loose connection, exposing a live wire. This led to a massive explos....

Paul Ridings, 39, an electrical engineer of South Benfleet, Essex was working for Lafarge Cement UK Plc, when he was engulfed by the fireball at the firm's site at Thurrock Marine Terminal, Grays, Essex. He suffered severe burns to his face, neck, chest and arms. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) prosecuted the firm for breach of health and safety law. Read the full HSE press release. ....

Robert Stubbs, 24, of Redcar, was planting trees for social housing landlord Coast and Country Housing Ltd in Ayton Drive, Redcar when he hit an 11,000 volt underground electricity cable. Mr Stubbs was using a five-foot steel bar to create a hole for a support stake for a tree, when the bar hit the underground cable from a nearby substation. The contact created a short circuit which caused a flame to shoot up thirteen feet from the underground cable, causing burn injuries to Mr Stubbs....

A builder believed to be in his 20s lost his arm in a cement mixer accident at St Bernadette’s primary School on the Glenalina Road, West Belfast’s Ballymurphy area.  The accident happened when the man got his hand trapped in the cement mixer. It’s believed his arm was severed at the shoulder. The builder has undergone surgery at the Ulster Hospital in Dundonald and his condition was described as comfortable. The Health and Safety has started an investigation into the....

A landscape gardener has been blinded in one eye after a horrific accident whilst using a mower.  Ashley Brabbin from Walsall was driving a ride-on mower for Glendale Managed Services when the blades picked up a piece of metal, which flew towards his face and lodged itself in his right eye.  As a result of the severity of Mr Brabbin’s injury he was transferred to a specialist eye hospital, but there was nothing the medical staff could do to save his sight in the injured eye. &....

Magistrates’ court in Worcester fined Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust £12,500 and ordered it to pay £9,500 costs after the hospital admitted that in February 2007, it breached health and safety laws.

A building material company, Building Chemical Research (BCR) was yesterday fined £16, 000 and ordered to pay £8,000 legal costs by Bolton Crown Court following the death of one of its workers in an accident at its factory in Bury on 30 August 2005. Mr .Paul Palmer who was an ex-paratrooper died while cleaning a powerful industrial blender when his colleague turned it on. It should have been impossible to switch on the machine while a person was inside but two safety cut-out switches....

Alan Fletcher, 59, from Leeds was crushed by a heavy case of glass at work on 6 April 2006.

Mr. Fletcher died while trying to stop a two-tonne case from falling as it was unloaded at Roadways Container Logistics.

His employers, of Valley Farm Way, Stourton, pleaded guilty to breaching Health and Safety regulations and were fined £250,000 and ordered to pay £100,000 costs by Leeds Crown Court on Friday 20 August 2010.

Encon Engineering (Wales) Ltd of Caerphilly has been fined after pleading guilty to health and safety failures following a work accident. Machinist Rhys Davies, aged 25, a worker at the Bartlett Street Industrial Estate based company, suffered serious injuries after his fingers were severed in an unguarded machine. Econ Engineering, were prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) after the incident in which Mr Davies, lost four fingers and the top of his thumb in the work place acci....

Health and Safety Executive (HSE) have released new figures for the number of workers who were fatally injured in farms. The figures show a return to average levels of previous years. Between 1 April 2009 and 31 March 2010, 38 farm workers were killed at work. This is a contrast to figures in 2008/09 when 25 workers died. A great concern illustrated by the figures is the rate of fatal injuries in the agricultural sector. This was 8.2 per 100,000 workers, making it the most dangerous ind....