Pages On: Falls from Heights
Workplaces hold a duty of care to their staff to prevent accidents. Falls from heights are some of the most dangerous and preventable forms of accident at work. If your employer has failed in their duty of care to you, and you have suffered a fall from a height, it may be lucky if you walk away with your life. They are the top cause of fatal injury at work, and are a blight in construction and agriculture industries. If you or a loved one has suffered a workplace injury and are not at fault, you may be entitled to claim personal injury compensation for the employer negligence.
Construction companies fined over worker's six-metre fall
Posted: 18 December 2012
Posted in: Employer Negligence, Falls from Heights, Hand Injuries, Hip Injuries, Workplace Injuries
Two construction companies have been fined for serious safety failings after a Coventry worker suffered life-changing injuries when he plummeted more than six metres through a badly-covered hole in a floor. Contract worker Ian Howells punctured his lung, broke every rib on the left-hand side of his body, shattered all the bones in his left hand and fractured his pelvis in three places. This happened as he stepped onto what he thought was a pile of wood covered by plastic. He was bedridden for two months and was unable to…
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Companies sentenced after worker's fatal fall
Posted: 30 November 2012
Posted in: Employer Negligence, Falls from Heights, Head and Brain Injuries, Workplace Injuries, Wrongful & Accidental Death
A major construction company and a concrete structures firm have been sentenced after a worker died following a fall from a height at a Swansea building site. A self-employed father of two, Russell Samuel, was contracted to work as a scaffolder at the Swansea site. He was dismantling a scaffold ladder access platform ready for the installation of the roof and staircase on the fourth floor, when he fell approximately 19 metres to the ground below, narrowly missing a carpenter who was working directly below. Mr Samuel suffered multiple injuries…
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