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Violent inmate launches vicious attack on prison officer

Posted: 1 May 2016

Posted in: Arm Injury, Criminal Injury and Assault, Head and Brain Injuries, Shoulder Injuries, Workplace Injuries

A senior prison officer, who was working in the Segregation Unit at HMP Swaleside in Kent’s Eastchurch, has finally received compensation following being forced out of his job due to a violent attack by an inmate. Iain Fleming suffered horrendous physical injuries as well as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) whilst working in the canteen. An inmate lunged at one of his colleagues brandishing two sharpened plastic knives, and attempted to stab him in the head. Mr Fleming rushed to restrain the inmate and found himself instead being stabbed and attacked. The inmate stabbed the…

Leeds couple win compensation following honeymoon road traffic accident

Posted: 22 April 2016

Posted in: Accidents and Sickness Abroad, Bus Accidents, Hand Injuries, Leg Injuries, Road Traffic Accidents, Wrongful & Accidental Death

A couple from Leeds have been awarded compensation following a head-on collision whilst on tour in Italy. The couple, Angela and Simon Howland, were on the holiday of a lifetime, cruising the Mediterranean when the collision occurred. Their tour bus was travelling between Sorrento and Pompeii and was travelling through a tunnel when it was forced to swerve to avoid a head on collision with another vehicle. The bus, which was transporting tourists from the cruise, then crashed into the tunnel wall, causing substantial personal injury to the driver and many…

Laser hair removal treatment severely burns client

Posted: 4 April 2016

Posted in: Arm Injury, Leg Injuries, Medical Negligence, Negligent Cosmetic Surgery

A claimant has won £5,000 in compensation after sustaining burns to her arms and legs after receiving hair removal laser treatment. The woman had gone to a beauty salon to have several areas of her body lasered, including her lower legs and arms, which left her with visible burn marks upon completion of the treatment. It was subsequently discovered that the beautician carrying out the treatment had turned the power of the laser too high, resulting in the burns. Report confirmed that the laser had been misused When the salon…

Cambridgeshire police force pay out over £20k in workplace injury compensation

Posted: 27 July 2015

Posted in: Animal Attacks, Finger Injuries, Workplace Injuries

Following a Freedom of Information request, it has been revealed that Cambridgeshire Police has paid out over £20,000 in compensation to staff in a five-year period. Claims ranged from dog bites to injuries caused by a collapsing desk, with a total of 16 claims made since 2010, (of which seven were successful). The force was unable to specify which seven claims were successful because of the Data Protection Act. It was revealed that a total of 16 claims were made against the force by staff, including 6 trip or fall…

Coach owner found guilty following serious injury of young rugby player

Posted: 27 May 2015

Posted in: Arm Injury, Bus Accidents, Public Transport, Road Traffic Accidents

The owner of a coach company has been found guilty of dangerous driving offences after a young boy fell out of a vehicle onto the motorway. The coach had been taking a youth rugby team to a game on 16 May 2014 when one of the passengers, a 13-year-old boy, leaned on a “defective” emergency door and fell out of the vehicle.  It was heard in the Bristol Crown Court that the emergency exit door on Keith Jones’s coach was highly unsafe, and recorder Malcolm Gibney warned Mr Jones that…

Hand Injury Compensation Claims in Bristol

Posted in: Arm Injury, Hand Injuries, Personal Injury

Suffered a hand injury in Bristol? Our specialist personal injury solicitors** can help you if you have been injured in an accident that was due to another person’s negligence. To find out whether you can claim for compensation, call us today for a free consultation. You can find out lower down the page about the compensation amounts that can be rewarded for personal injury claims of this type, relating to the wrist, hands, and fingers, and below for the accident types typically involved: Slips, Trips, and Falls – where you…

Arm Injury Claims in Bristol – Accident Compensation

Posted in: Arm Injury, Personal Injury

If you would like to know how much compensation you could be due for an arm injury claim, then call us today. After a few simple questions, we should be able to tell you whether you have a case, and the amounts that could be involved. We are friendly and professional personal injury solicitors** with over a decade of experience in claims such as this. Arm Injury Claims Bristol – Who Can Claim? If you have been involved in an accident, and it was not your fault, then it’s very…

Staff injury compensation costing council

Posted: 13 February 2015

Posted in: Hand Injuries, Repetitive Strain Injury, Workplace Injuries

Staff personal injury compensation is costing Barking and Dagenham Council £20,000 a month according to recently released figures. The figures were released following a Freedom of Information request, which detailed that the council paid out to 90 separate incidents between January 2009 and September 2013, averaging out at just less than £20,000 a month. The total paid out to claimants during this time was £1,123,347. One of the council’s finance department employees was awarded £85,245 in June 2009 for a repetitive strain injury, while a second member of staff was awarded £33,645…

Welder sues firm for £200,000 after being hit by a metal frame

Posted: 29 December 2014

Posted in: Arm Injury, Head and Brain Injuries, Neck Injuries, Workplace Injuries

A welder who was hit by a falling metal frame has sued a Downham firm for up to £200,000 in compensation. 40-year-old Scott Fewster had been working as a welder at a skateboard ramp manufacturers, called Highline Extreme, when a metal frame fell on him. He said that the metal frame pushed him back onto a concrete floor, which left him with severely debilitating injuries. He suffered injuries to his head and neck, soft tissue injuries to his forearms, and severe bruising all over his body. He said he was…

Council pays out to injured boy

Posted: 28 August 2014

Posted in: Hand Injuries, Head and Brain Injuries, Public Place Accidents

Hull City Council is to pay compensation to a five-year-old boy after he tripped and fell on an unsafe drain. Jayden Willby, from east Hull, suffered injuries after tripping on an unsafe drain nearby his home last November. The drain was highlighted as a hazard to the council on the day of Jayden’s injury, but nothing was done to mend it. Five months later, Jayden’s mum, Candice Gilchrist, decided to take action, arguing that children frequently walk to school on that road. Jayden had been walking to school when he…

Dog bites most common in deprived areas

Posted: 25 April 2014

Posted in: Animal Attacks, Hand Injuries, Head and Brain Injuries

A report has revealed that there are three times as many hospital admissions for dog bites in England’s most deprived areas than in the least. The report was released by the Health and Social Care Information Centre, which showed Merseyside to have the highest rate of dog attacks, accounting for 6,740 admissions – a figure up 6% on the previous year. It also highlighted children to be the most common victims. The data displayed a strong correlation between the number of dog attacks occurring, and where the attacks took place. It was…

Injured teachers receive record £26m in compensation

Posted: 20 April 2014

Posted in: Arm Injury, Foot Injuries, Head and Brain Injuries, Neck Injuries, Pedestrian Injuries, Pothole Injuries, School Accidents, Shoulder Injuries, Workplace Injuries

Newly released figures have revealed that school staff have been awarded a record of £26 million in compensation. One teacher received £110,000 after tripping on a pothole in the driveway of the school she worked at. She is just one of the hundreds of school staff who have claimed for a work-related injury.  The NASUWT teaching union assisted many of its members in claiming compensation, winning teaching staff more than £20 million in 2013. This figure was up a third on the previous year, with the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL)…

‘Guillotine gate’ injures six-year-old

Posted: 5 April 2014

Posted in: Finger Injuries, Public Place Accidents, School Accidents

After a gate was found to be potentially dangerous by a Health and Safety Executive (HSE) report in 2004, a young boy has lost three fingertips in the gate described as a “guillotine”. The six-year-old boy, who suffered with learning difficulties, got his hand trapped in the hinges of the gate, cutting off three of his fingertips. Salford City Council has been fined £20,000 for the accident that happened at Springwood Special Educational Needs Primary School in Swinton. Even though the gate had been highlighted as dangerous in 2004, the council took…

Redbridge council sees highest payouts for accidents at school

Posted: 25 January 2014

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

New figures have revealed that Redbridge Council has paid out almost £100,000 in compensation to people involved in accidents at school.  Out of all of London’s 32 boroughs, Redbridge Council sees the 5th highest amount of payouts, with neighbouring Waltham Forest compensating as little as half of Redbridge Council, with only a third of the claims.  The figures showed that over the last five years, the council has received 61 personal injury claims that relate to children, staff, parents, visitors, and contractors. Figures uncovered by the freedom of information disclosure…

Health visitor struck off after failing to recognise baby’s broken arm

Posted: 26 September 2013

Posted in: Arm Injury, Birth Injury, Medical Negligence

A health visitor working for Cambridgeshire Community Services has been struck off after failing to recognise that a baby in her care had a broken arm. Despite the mother of the baby raising concern over worrying bruising that had appeared on her baby’s arm, Deborah Kendall failed to carry out any examination and failed to recognise the breakage. The mother and her baby had been under the care of Ms. Kendall since March 2011 – who was based near Ely at the time – and had around 35 years of experience…

London firm in court for worker's injury

Posted: 4 April 2013

Posted in: Arm Injury, Leg Injuries, Workplace Injuries

A London-based chemicals company has been prosecuted after a worker was run over by a forklift truck and had to have part of his leg amputated. The long-serving employee, who had worked for the company more than 40 years, suffered major crush injuries to his right leg and had to undergo an above-the-knee amputation in hospital. He also sustained ligament damage to his left leg, a dislocated left elbow and was in hospital for four weeks. He has been unable to return to work at the company since. Westminster Magistrates’…

Workman fined for friend's fall through roof

Posted: 20 March 2013

Posted in: Arm Injury, Employer Negligence, Falls from Heights, Workplace Injuries

A self-employed maintenance worker has been fined after a friend, who was helping him on a job, fell through the roof of a disused factory. The injured man, in his forties, suffered a broken elbow when he fell three metres through the asbestos cement roof at a disused rubber factory in the Forest of Dean. HSE found that the maintenance worker, who was employed to dismantle the roof of the building, did not plan the work properly or have any safety equipment in place that might prevent or mitigate the…

Gloucestershire paper company fined for safety failings

Posted: 24 January 2013

Posted in: Employer Negligence, Hand Injuries, Workplace Injuries

A Gloucestershire paper producer has been fined after an employee’s hand was crushed in an unguarded machine as he tried to clean it. The 43 year-old worker received a serious crushing injury, cuts and bruising to his right hand when it was drawn between the rollers of a paper coating machine, he was unable to return to work for two months. An investigation by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) established that the rollers had to be cleaned periodically, sometimes several times a day, when the coating material is changed.…