Pages On: Finger Injuries
Finger injuries are usually not too severe or life-threatening, but the fallout from a finger injury, whichever finger it may be, can affect many of the day-to-day things we take for granted. If you have lost a finger, or they have been rendered unusable, it may affect your ability to work. The compensation for each different finger injury will take into account how it has affected your life, not just how bad the injury itself is. If you have suffered a finger injury in an accident that wasn’t your fault, you may be entitled to personal injury compensation.
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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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