Pages On: Faulty Work Equipment
Whilst fault equipment at work is a rare occurrence, it can often prove extremely dangerous. Equipment doesn’t have to be broken or dysfunctional to prove hazardous, sometimes design oversights to safety controls can be fatal to workers. If something has failed in its proper operation which you use for work, and has caused you injury, you probably stand a good chance of claiming work accident compensation.
Scaffolder in court over worker’s fractured skull
Posted: 29 August 2014
Posted in: Faulty Work Equipment, Head and Brain Injuries, Workplace Injuries
A scaffolder is to receive a four-month prison sentence after his faulty equipment seriously injured a worker. 27-year-old Mark Jones, from Darlaston, had been operating a ‘gin wheel’ (a metal pulley wheel) when it fell seven meters from the scaffold and struck him on the head, fracturing his skull. Mr Jones had been working for a subcontractor on site when the accident happened. He had been installing lead flashing on a school roof using lifting equipment installed by Christopher Alan Harvey. It was heard that Mr Jones had been loading…
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Esso fined for sailor death
Posted: 17 December 2013
Posted in: Employer Negligence, Faulty Work Equipment, Workplace Injuries, Wrongful & Accidental Death
Esso has been fined £100,000 after a member of staff was crushed to death under a fuel hose, an accident described as “wholly avoidable”. The company has admitted to health and safety failings and has been ordered to pay an additional £50,000 in costs. 40-year-old Juan Romero died in August 2008 when a corroded bolt gave way, allowing a pipe and its crane to fall and crush the worker at Fawley marine terminal in Southampton. The seaman, originally from Honduras, had been working on board the docked ship when the accident…
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Car firm fined following a death at Cheshire plant
Posted: 14 August 2013
Posted in: Faulty Work Equipment, Workplace Injuries, Wrongful & Accidental Death
A Vauxhall parent company has been fined £150,000 for their failure to comply with health and safety regulations – resulting in the tragic death of a member of their staff. Ian Heard (59) was crushed to death at the Cheshire car plant in July 2010 after having worked for the company for 43 years. Mr. Heard was caught in the machinery when working in the Ellesmere-based plant three years ago. Mr. Heard, originally from Birkenhead, was taken to a hospital in Chester, where he died eleven days after the accident. …
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Vibration White Finger Compensation Claims
Posted in: Faulty Work Equipment, Industrial Deafness and Disease, Workplace Injuries
If you have suffered an injury at work as a result of operating vibrating machinery, you may be entitled to Vibration White Finger (VWF) compensation, and you should contact our solicitors** in Birmingham to obtain further information. VWF is a form of Hand Arm Vibration Syndrome. Vibration White Finger compensation may be available if you suffer from certain symptom. These present themselves as: Numbing of the fingersthrobbing in the fingerschanges to your sense of touch,lack of strength in the fingersloss of colour in fingers (which normally occurs in cold weather).…
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