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Escaped cow injures meat inspector

Posted: 21 April 2016

Posted in: Animal Attacks, Neck Injuries, Shoulder Injuries, Spine & Back Injuries, Workplace Injuries

A meat hygiene inspector from Surrey has been awarded £6,000 in damages following being landed on by a cow who jumped over the top of her stunning pen. The inspector was passing along a narrow path in front of the pens when the cow made her escape. She landed on the inspector, Mr Melvyn Treen from Camberley in Surrey, causing him injury to his back, neck and shoulder. The accident occurred at the Chitty Wholesale Abbattoir at Slyfield Industrial Estate in Guilford.  Totally avoidable The 62-year-old described the incident: “The cow was being…

Tourist awarded compensation following aeroplane injury

Posted: 4 April 2016

Posted in: Accidents and Sickness Abroad, Leg Injuries, Public Place Accidents, Public Transport Accidents, Shoulder Injuries, Spine & Back Injuries

A tourist was awarded £3900 in compensation by an airline following injuries sustained when returning from an overseas holiday. The claimant had warned the operator in advance that she had difficulties walking and had requested assistance on boarding and disembarking the aeroplane. However, upon her return from holiday, assistance was not provided. She subsequently stumbled whilst descending the staircase causing her to jar her back and shoulder. She also sustained injury to her leg. No record of types of disability assistance The holidaymaker decided to press for compensation and appointed lawyers to…

Mother takes legal action against bus firm for serious fall

Posted: 27 May 2015

Posted in: Bus Accidents, Public Transport Accidents, Road Traffic Accidents, Spine & Back Injuries

A mother-of-three is taking legal action against the bus company Arriva after injuries left her housebound. 47-year-old Anne-Marie Lee boarded an Arriva bus on 25 February when it suddenly jolted before she was able to sit down. She suffered a serious fall which left her with life-changing injuries. Ms Lee was immediately taken to Whiston hospital after the incident, where x-rays found a compressed fracture in one of her vertebrae. Three months after the accident happened, Ms Lee remains in a back brace, unable to move and in a great…

Woman suffers life-changing injuries in paragliding accident

Posted: 9 March 2015

Posted in: Accidents and Sickness Abroad, Personal Injury, Spine & Back Injuries

A woman from Gateshead is battling for compensation after suffering a serious spinal injury during a tandem paraglide in South Africa. The accident happened when Diane Bewick was on holiday in South Africa in 2004. It was heard in the Supreme Court of Appeal in South Africa on Monday (9 March) that she crashed into a cliff face, which left her paralysed from the waist down. Ms Bewick will require care and rehabilitation for the rest of her life. It was heard in court that the accident happened when the…

Paralysed stage manager wins £3.7 million in compensation

Posted: 19 December 2014

Posted in: Employer Negligence, Spine & Back Injuries, Workplace Injuries

A former stage manager has been awarded £3.7 million in compensation after she was left paralysed following an accident at the Soho Theatre. Rachael Presdee was the stage manager on Headlong Theatre Company’s production of Boys in 2012 when the accident happened. It was heard that she fell through an unguarded backstage door and dropped three metres to the open stage below. The fall left her with a very severe and permanent injury to her spine, and she is now paralysed and in a wheelchair.  The compensation was granted earlier this…

£1m payout to injured pupils in Worcestershire

Posted: 4 December 2014

Posted in: Public Place Accidents, School Accidents, Spine & Back Injuries

Pupils across Worcestershire received more than £1 million in compensation in 2013. A Freedom of Information request uncovered that last year alone, a total of six claims were made against the county council, and a significant amount of compensation went to a middle-aged pupil who fell on a school trip in 2009. The council said it would not disclose any information regarding the individual claims, over fear of identification, but said that they were all valid claims. A total of £1,091,082 was paid out to pupils aged 5-18 between 2011…

Compensation shock after man lost leg

Posted: 6 August 2014

Posted in: Leg Injuries, Personal Injury, Public Place Accidents, Road Traffic Accidents, Spine & Back Injuries

The wife of a taxi driver that lost his leg in an incident is shocked at the outcome of her husband’s case. Jeremy Mayers (63), the owner of company ‘Fab Kabs’, was crushed while loading a suitcase into the back of his taxi in Pontypool in January. The driver of the vehicle that caused the damage, Laura Llewellyn, received six penalty points and a fine of £115 after pleading guilty. Mr Mayers, a father of two, had to have his right leg amputated from the knee down and his back pinned…

Cyclists raise £7000 for spinal injuries charity

Posted: 11 June 2014

Posted in: Personal Injury, Spine & Back Injuries

Two cyclists have raised a total of £7,000 for spinal injuries charity SIA (the Spinal Injuries Association). The cyclists from Trafford cycled a 300km route from London to Paris to raise money and awareness for the charity.  According to the statistics of support organisation ‘Apparelyzed’, around 1200 people in the UK are paralysed by a spinal cord injury every year, with approximately 40,000 people suffering with paralysis in the UK at present. This figure only accounts for those who have gone through a spinal cord injury centre, and does not include those…

Workplace compensation claims dropped by 50% in last 10 years

Posted: 22 April 2014

Posted in: Employer Negligence, Industrial Deafness and Disease, Repetitive Strain Injury, Spine & Back Injuries, Workplace Injuries, Workplace Slip

A report recently released by TUC has found that compensation cases related to workplace injuries and illness have fallen by around 50% in the last decade. The figures revealed that compensation claims have fallen from 183,342 in 2002/03, to 91,115 in 2012/13. Despite there being a promising decline in cases, this could be due to the government making it increasingly difficult for workers to pursue claims of employer negligence.  The report found that around 6 out of 7 workers who are injured or made ill at work (85.7%) receive no compensation whatsoever. This…

Councils payout £2.5m in personal injury compensation

Posted: 14 April 2014

Posted in: Neck Injuries, Pedestrian Injuries, Personal Injury, Public Place Accidents, Spine & Back Injuries

Two Devon councils have paid out a total of £2.5 million in personal injury compensation over the last four years.  Between 2010 and 2013, Plymouth City Council paid out £2.1m and Torbay Council £400,000 to claimants who suffered personal injuries. These claims ranged from injuries resulting from tripping on pavements, to one claimant who fell into a harbour. The figures were released as a result of a BBC Freedom of Information request. The highest individual payout between the two councils was £105,000. Devon County Council, however, refused to respond to the information request. Plymouth…

Family sue over injuries sustained at Apollo Theatre

Posted: 9 February 2014

Posted in: Head and Brain Injuries, Public Place Accidents, Shoulder Injuries, Spine & Back Injuries

A family of six that sustained serious personal injuries in the ceiling collapse at the Apollo Theater in December has launched a legal claim for compensation. The Edwards family was amongst the seventy-six injured audience members who had been watching ‘The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time’ at the time of the accident. Debris began to fall on the audience, leaving many people with serious injuries. Account manager from Tufnell Park, Gareth Edwards (31), suffered three fractured vertebrae, a broken shoulder blade and bruising on his brain in…

Spinal Injury Compensation

Posted in: Personal Injury, Spine & Back Injuries

The spine is a very important part of the human body. It is vital for support (i.e. helping us to stand) and also carries messages for the brain to the rest of the body through the spinal cord. It therefore follows that if you injure your spine, there could be very serious ramifications to your quality of life. If the injury is caused by the negligence of a third party, then the victim could be entitled to bring a personal injury claim for compensation. A claim can be brought where…

The inherent dangers of working at height

Posted: 13 March 2013

Posted in: Employer Negligence, Falls from Heights, Shoulder Injuries, Spine & Back Injuries, Workplace Injuries

Workers across Britain are continuing to suffer serious injury and even death as a result of employers failing to ensure they are sufficiently protected when working at height. Life-changing injuries In London a worker suffered severe injuries when he fell through a roof light at a construction site. He was employed by an interior fit-out company, and was carrying out insulation work on a property redevelopment project when he fell through the roof light and landed on the ground six metres below. He sustained life-changing injuries, including breaks to three…

Company fined for worker fall

Posted: 29 January 2013

Posted in: Employer Negligence, Falls from Heights, Spine & Back Injuries, Workplace Injuries

A Kent renovation company has been fined for safety failings after an unsupervised labourer fell more than four metres from a poorly constructed scaffold tower whilst stripping out a basement gym in central London. The man fractured two vertebrae and broke five ribs in the fall in April 2011. He was part of a crew of labourers working to remove ventilation ducting from a two-storey gym in the basement. A scaffold tower was erected to support the work and was being used by the worker to access ducting from a…