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Man banned from owning dogs after attack

Posted: 29 June 2015

Posted in: Animal Attacks, Hand Injuries

A man from Northampton has been banned from owning dogs after his Staffordshire Bull Terrier cross seriously injured another dog and its owner. 29-year-old Aaron Evans had tied the dog up in his garden on the 28 March when it managed to get free and jump the fence. On the street there was a man walking his dog, which the Staffordshire Bull Terrier decided to attack, causing the dog serious injuries and the owner an injury to the hand. It was heard in court that the Staffy locked its jaws…

Firefighter secures compensation after ladder breakage destroys his arms

Posted: 26 March 2015

Posted in: Arm Injury, Foot Injuries, Workplace Injuries

A firefighter who was forced to medically retire after an incident during a training exercise has been awarded a six-figure compensation package. Michael Hollings suffered the life-changing injury at Ilkley Fire Station when the ladder he was on cracked and fell to the ground, leaving him suspended at six inches above the floor. He suffered a severe fracture and two dislocated elbows and forearms in the accident. He also fractured his right foot and suffered serious concussion. Medically retire Mr Hollings had been a firefighter for eight years prior to the…

Pensioner’s pothole fall claim dismissed by council

Posted: 24 July 2014

Posted in: Arm Injury, Pedestrian Injuries, Pothole Injuries, Public Place Accidents

The daughter of pensioner and fitness instructor Trixie Offord, Sheryn Ross, has warned people of Bucks County Council’s pothole policy after her mother suffered serious injuries and received no compensation. Mrs Offord was hospitalised after tripping on a pothole while walking back to her home in Hampden Road, Chalfont St Peter. She was treated for a broken wrist and several injuries to her face and nose. Sheryn Ross assisted her mother in claiming for compensation but was told by a solicitor that the council had checked the pothole two weeks prior to…

Council pays out over £330,000 in school injury compensation

Posted: 18 June 2014

Posted in: Finger Injuries, Foot Injuries, Public Place Accidents, School Accidents, Workplace Injuries, Workplace Slip

A recent report has found that Lincolnshire County Council has paid out over £330,000 in compensation to those injured at school. With claims ranging from a trapped thumb to a book falling on a child’s foot, the “compensation culture” argument has been raised in relation to many of the council’s payouts. The figures were released as part of a BBC Freedom of Information request which looked at the figures from 2008 to 2014. One teacher was awarded with £4,000 after they “almost fell” when a stool broke. Other successful claimants included…

Food company fined £35k for multiple workplace safety failings

Posted: 29 May 2014

Posted in: Employer Negligence, Faulty Work Equipment, Finger Injuries, Workplace Injuries

Kent-based rice processor ‘Veetee Foods’ has been fined £35,000 for safety failings for the second time this month. The firm was prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) after a member of staff crushed three of their fingers in unguarded machinery. The member of staff, Khalil Ahmed, had been working on a machine whose guard had been intentionally removed, allowing staff to get too close to the moving parts. The factory on the Medway City Estate in Rochester was fined £30,000 and ordered to pay £5,492 in costs after admitting…

Man wins £45,000 compensation following failed operation

Posted: 26 May 2014

Posted in: Hand Injuries, Medical Negligence, NHS Claims

A man has been awarded with £45,000 in compensation following a failed operation at James Cook University Hospital. 70-year-old Malcolm Atkinson suffered with a debilitating finger condition, which was left considerably worse after going under the knife. The condition Mr Atkinson suffered with was Dupuytren’s contracture, a condition that causes the fingers to bend inwards into the palm of the hand.  Since the operation, Mr Atkinson has been left with a permanently disabled left hand. It was heard at court that the failed operation ‘inadvertently’ damaged the nerves in the hand,…

Police payout £144,000 to officers injured on duty

Posted: 3 March 2014

Posted in: Finger Injuries, Knee Injury, Workplace Injuries

South Yorkshire Police Force has paid out a total of £144,000 in compensation to officers injured while on duty. A total of 31 financial settlements were made by the force in only four years, (between 2008-2012) with payouts ranging from insect bites to knee injuries. As a result, the force has been urged to crackdown on officers who are ‘playing the system’ as personal injury compensation claims continue to become increasingly trivial. Compensation payouts included: £30,000 to an officer who tore a ligament in his knee while training£18,000 to an officer who…

4-year-old girl burnt on beach sand heated by disposable BBQ

Posted: 3 June 2013

Posted in: Foot Injuries, Hand Injuries, Personal Injury

As the weather has continued to improve throughout the UK, more and more of us are spending our evenings outside having a barbeque with friends and family. However, this proved rather dangerous on Sunday as a four-year-old girl suffered burns after falling in the sand on a Devon beach.  The young girl and her family were having a barbeque on Exmouth beach when she sustained the personal injuries. With only a disposable barbeque lit, the sheer heat that the container emitted caused the young girl to fall and seriously burn herself…

Food company are prosecuted as worker severs fingertip

Posted: 30 May 2013

Posted in: Employer Negligence, Faulty Work Equipment, Finger Injuries, Workplace Injuries

A mincing machine has caused unnamed worker of an Ilkeston food company to severely sever his fingertip. When trying to remove meat from the machine, at Chilled Foods Limited’s Grange Farm factory in Loscoe, the worker managed to bring his hand into contact with the machine’s still-moving blade. Southern Derbyshire Magistrates’ Court was told earlier this month, 8 May, that the machine had been switched off yet the blade was still slowing down. As the employee was collecting produce from the end of the production line, he realised that something…

Firm admits neglecting safety after three workers injure their hands

Posted: 25 April 2013

Posted in: Employer Negligence, Faulty Work Equipment, Finger Injuries, Hand Injuries, Workplace Injuries

A Lincolnshire firm that makes disposable paper products has been ordered to pay more than £116,000 in fines and costs after three workers suffered hand injuries using unguarded machines. One man had to have his left thumb amputated after getting it crushed in unguarded machinery on a production line on 26th July 2011. He was off work for several months but has now returned to the company to work on other duties. A month later an agency worker cut her finger on the blade of a napkin folding machine, while…

Food company in court over worker's hand injury

Posted: 12 March 2013

Posted in: Employer Negligence, Faulty Work Equipment, Finger Injuries, Workplace Injuries

A Leeds-based food company has been fined for safety failings after an agency worker had two fingers crushed by hydraulic rams in a sausage roll machine which had a broken guard. The 26-year-old worker was removing filling for pasties from a hopper on the machine when his fingers came into contact with dangerous moving parts. Two fingers on his right hand were badly injured. The middle finger has been left with no nerve sensation and his third finger, which had to be stitched back on, has only partial sensation. He…

Brick firm breaks safety law causing worker to severely injure hand

Posted: 26 February 2013

Posted in: Faulty Work Equipment, Finger Injuries, Hand Injuries, Workplace Injuries

A West Yorkshire brick making firm has been prosecuted after safety failings at its factory led to a worker losing a thumb and having his hand almost severed in a poorly-guarded press machine. Surgeons managed to reattach the hand where it had been partially separated using nerve and tissue from his legs. The worker also had to undergo skin grafts and several other restorative operations. He has not been able to return to work. The court was told that the worker, a machine operative, had started to run a double…

Court fines company over worker injury

Posted: 12 February 2013

Posted in: Employer Negligence, Finger Injuries, Workplace Injuries

A glass-making company in Leeds has been prosecuted for neglecting the safety of its workers after an employee was injured using an industrial high-pressure jet washer to clean a production line. The employee suffered a severe cut to the base of his left index finger when the lance of the 1500-bar jet washer fell from his grip. He had to undergo an operation to remove air that had been injected into the finger and to repair nerve damage. Leeds Magistrates’ Court was told that the company had not provided the…

Arm Injury Compensation

Posted in: Arm Injury, Personal Injury

Injuries to your arms can take many forms. You might have suffered nerve or bone damage, and you may no longer be able to drive, write or work. You could have been injured at work, or in a public place (such as a fall on uneven paving stones). You may have been involved in a traffic accident, or been injured in the course of a crime or violent attack. You may even have suffered an amputation and lost part of an arm, hand or finger. Such accidents can affect your…