A pensioner from Ore in East Sussex has been awarded thousands of pounds in compensation for injuries she suffered when she tripped on a badly maintained pavement outside her house. Irene Saville, now 73, fell over a hole in the pavement as she was pushing...
A motor scooter rider who was left with life-changing injuries after being hit by a motorist has won a compensation settlement worth £5.5 million. David Ireland, now 21, was riding down a lane near his home when the accident happened in 2006. A car...
Over a third of all major workplace injuries that are reported each year are caused by a slip or trip and these cost employers over £512 million a year in lost production and other costs. A worker who slipped on a hazardous step at an industrial...
A pensioner who slipped on a wet floor at a Tesco store in Worcester has received a four-figure sum in compensation for an injury to his foot. Ronald Fryer, 80, was taken to the Worcestershire Royal Hospital where X-rays showed that that he had fractured a...
A former factory worker whose hearing was damaged by excessive noise at his place of work has won £5,000 in damages. Mr Davidson worked for Mather & Platt Limited, which manufactured pumps, fire sprinkler systems and electric motors, for four...
A former miner who was diagnosed with an asbestos-related cancer has been awarded damages of more than £70,000 by the High Court in a case which sheds light on the way in which compensation settlements in such cases should be calculated. Dennis...
A park warden who slipped on ice while trying to put up a sign warning users of the park of the danger posed by those very same slippery conditions has won compensation for his injuries. The warden had been sent to put up the signs by Leicester County...
A grandfather who was knocked off his bicycle by a motorist who then drove away has won £11,000 in damages. The accident happened when Jack Dixon, 59, was cycling home from Chelmsford railway station. He had left the cycle lane to negotiate a junction...
New recruits to the Greater Manchester Police (GMP) who were injured in a CS gas training exercise have secured compensation totalling approximately £18,000. The injured officers were among a number of new recruits taking part in a training exercise...
A woman who was left brain damaged after being hit by an out-of-control truck has been awarded a substantial sum in compensation. Devbai Patel, 60, was walking home after going shopping when she was caught up in the consequences of a devastating road...
The Supreme Court has very recently ruled that companies can claim the cost of compensating workers hit by asbestos related illness against insurance they held when staff were first exposed to it. The ruling on Wednesday 28 March 2012 reinstates an...
A 70-year-old woman who suffered broken bones in a fall in a café has won £75,000 in damages. The accident happened when the woman, who did not want to be named, visited the Lanterns café in Swindon town centre. She tripped on a mat as...
Two pilots have each won damages after the microlight they were flying fell apart in mid-air. Jim Martin, 54, was flying the microlight with a passenger, Jon Kerr, when its tail snapped off. The plane was sent spinning through the air and fell 1,000 feet to...
A former steelworker from Scunthorpe whose wife died from an asbestos-related disease has won a substantial amount in compensation. The 76-year-old man worked at a steelworks for six years in the 1970s. He was regularly exposed to asbestos in the course of...
Around 70 workers in the Oldham area have received a total of more than £270,000 in compensation, mostly for hearing loss as a result of exposure to excessive noise in the workplace. One claimant was Eric Bennett, 70, who had worked for an engineering...
A supermarket worker who slipped on a broken egg has won £27,000 in compensation for the injury she sustained. Irene Heslop had worked as a bakery assistant for ASDA for seven years. She was walking through the warehouse when she slipped on the...
A cyclist who was knocked off his bicycle by a hit-and-run driver has been awarded £4 million in compensation. Patrice Gougam, a professional tennis coach, was cycling along the A100 in London in November 2009 when he was struck by a Land Rover. The...
A skip worker whose hand was crushed in an accident at work in 2009 has won £175,000 in damages. Heath Riley, who was 42 when the accident occurred, was delivering a skip for Enviro Skips Ltd. of Burnley. The skips were not stacked properly and the...
A woman whose husband died from an asbestos-related disease has won a six-figure sum in damages. John Bromley worked as a building inspector and surveyor for the local council in Stafford for 37 years. In the 1970s, part of his job was to check that...
A young boy who fell off a climbing frame onto a concrete surface in 2009 has won £7,500 in compensation from Suffolk County Council. Jamie Griffin, now 10, was using the climbing frame in the playground at Burton End Primary School in Haverhill when...
A plater who suffered extensive damage to his hands as a result of continued use of vibrating tools has won damages of £12,000, the second time his employer has compensated him for work-related injury. The 54-year-old man had worked with vibrating...
A grandmother who fractured her hip when she tripped on a Christmas tree decoration in Santa’s grotto in Selfridges in 2009 has won her claim for compensation after the Court of Appeal ruled that Father Christmas and his assistant should have made sure...
A rider who was injured after being thrown from her horse has won compensation of £37,000. The accident happened in 2007 when Ceri Tonkinson was riding in Cosmeston Country Park, near Penarth in Wales. The horse she was riding had only recently been...
A retired plumber who was diagnosed with mesothelioma after being exposed to asbestos at work has won £115,000 in damages. The man had worked almost exclusively for the same building firm between 1950 and the early 1970s. He was exposed to asbestos...
After years of litigation, a young woman who suffered life-changing injuries when she was hit by a car as a child has been awarded a compensation settlement worth more than £9 million. Leigh Ann Blinkhorn, now 23, was seven years old when the accident...
A man who was almost blinded after an accident at work has won an undisclosed amount in damages. Trevor Watson, 42, was working as a drainage engineer. He was instructed to take his truck to a hydraulic specialist because of a blockage in its jetting...
An engineer who was seriously injured when he fell through a roof has won more than £164,000 in damages. The 66-year-old man worked for electronics and electrical engineering company Siemens. He was installing CCTV cameras at Liverpool Lime Street...
A golfer who was hit in the face by a stray golf ball has received compensation for her injuries. Rachel Davis was walking back to the car park from the ninth hole at Branston Golf and Country Club in Staffordshire when the accident happened. The ball hit...
A Gulf War veteran who suffered life-changing injuries when he hit a pothole and was thrown from his motorcycle has won an undisclosed amount in compensation from the council responsible for the upkeep of the road. The accident happened in February 2009,...
A retired man who has been diagnosed with an asbestos-related disease several decades after exposure has received more than £141,000 in compensation. For more than 20 years, the man worked as a labourer at a paper mill, where he operated a paper...
A shopper who was injured when he tried to lift a faulty box containing flat-pack furniture has won £11,000 in damages. The man was shopping at a major supermarket when the accident happened. He wished to buy the furniture and was attempting to remove...
A man who suffered damage to his hearing as a result of exposure to excessive noise in the workplace has won compensation from his employer. William Shipman, from West Yorkshire, had worked in a variety of jobs for a packaging company. During his...
A woman who missed out on her holiday after she fell down a set of temporary stairs at Birmingham International Airport has won £28,000 in compensation from Thomson Airways. Sheila Gilling, 69, was boarding a flight to Lanzarote when the accident...
A former professional jockey who was injured while working on an equestrian farm has won £22,000 in compensation. Jeffery Kear was working as an equestrian facilities manager at Stockland Lovell, near Bridgwater in Somerset. He had only been employed...
A man who was run over by musician Pete Doherty’s Daimler in 2009 has won an undisclosed amount in compensation at the High Court. Chris Corder, 42, was delivering church newsletters near Hadleigh in Suffolk when the accident happened. He was struck...
The widow of a man who died of an asbestos-related disease has won over £250,000 in compensation. William Wolff had worked as a joiner for 50 years before he retired in 2005, three months before his 65th birthday. He and his wife had planned to tour...
An amateur footballer who was seriously injured while playing on a poorly maintained pitch was recently awarded £22,700 in compensation at Dewsbury County Court. Paul Zoledziejewski, a 33-year-old mechanic, was playing for his club on a pitch in Shelf...
A grandmother has won substantial compensation for injuries she sustained when she slipped on a spillage at an ASDA superstore. Patricia Hill, 73, was shopping at the Rivergate store in Peterborough when she slipped on what was thought to be vegetable...
Every employer must provide employees with suitable personal protective equipment to guard against exposure to health and safety hazards while they are at work. To this end, employers should carry out risk assessments to identify any foreseeable risks faced...
The construction industry is one of the most dangerous in which to earn a living. A construction worker who was seriously injured in a fall from height at work has secured a compensation package worth millions of pounds. The 38-year-old man was working for...
A man who was struck by a van while walking through a car park has won £5,500 in damages. The man was returning to his car when he saw a van reversing, so he altered his route so that he passed in front of the vehicle. The van driver quickly changed...
A woman who fell from a boat during a pleasure cruise has been awarded compensation for the injuries she suffered as a result. The woman was at a Christmas party, with colleagues from work, when the accident happened. She and a friend had been dancing and...
A woman whose hearing was damaged as a result of exposure to excessive levels of noise at work has won just over £1,200 in compensation from one of her former employers. This comes on top of an earlier settlement of £2,700 from a different...
The family of a former shipyard worker who was exposed to asbestos in more than one job has won compensation from three of his former employers. William Galloway began working as a lagger when he was 16 years old, and was exposed to asbestos during that...
A textile factory employee who suffered a serious wrist injury when he slipped at work has won £40,000 in an out-of-court settlement. The man, who is in his 60s, slipped on fluid that had leaked from a textile printing machine. He fell backwards and...
A woman who is disabled as a result of injuries she sustained when she was knocked down by a taxi when she was 14 years old has been awarded £3 million in compensation. Vicki Hart, now 22, was hit by the taxi while crossing the road in Guisborough,...
A school worker who fell from a toilet she was standing on in order to open a window has been awarded £15,900 in damages . Marie Wallace, 64, was a clerical assistant at Kirkriggs School in Glasgow. The accident happened when she attempted to open...
A man who tripped on a raised paving stone in the pedestrian area of a high street has won £5,000 in compensation for his injuries. The area was paved with small granite blocks, one of which was standing proud of the others. The man tripped over it...
A further case involving injury to a worker as a result of the use of a chemical cleaning product, without adequate health and safety measures having been taken, has seen a caretaker from Walsall receive a £3,000 compensation settlement from his...
A compensation settlement of £212,500 has been awarded to the widow of a former joiner who died as a result of being exposed to asbestos at work. The man had worked as a joiner for a building firm from 1958 to 1968. He and his wife later moved to...
Slipping or tripping is the single most common cause of major injury in UK workplaces. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) reports that more than 10,000 workers suffered serious injury as a result of a slip or trip in the year 2009/2010. This figure...
