Slipping on a wet floor or tripping over an object may make for great slapstick, Laurel and Hardy-style comedy sketches, but in real life, such incidences can be far from amusing. Every year, hundreds of people are hospitalised with broken bones, gashes, and other...
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The Shocking Cases of Workplace Electrocution
Just before Christmas, 2016, Jamie Mines was working on the construction of a temporary shelter at Swindon’s Kendrick Industrial Estate. The experienced scaffolder was holding a tin sheet when 33,000 volts of electricity shot through his body. He was thrown 13 feet...
Claiming For Catastrophic Personal Injury
Many types of personal injury can cause discomfort, frustration and put the victim’s life on hold for a time. But a catastrophic personal injury, the kind sustained from a major work accident or car crash, can permanently change not on the victim’s life, but their...
Death and the Construction Industry
In 2014, Shane Wilkinson accepted a job on the on the Collyweston construction site. As a single parent of five children, he needed the money. In only a few days, those children lost their father; he was crushed to death when an unsecured trench wall collapsed. On 1st...
Don’t Underestimate The Seriousness Of Office Injuries
It may be almost comical to think of an office worker being injured at work. After all, what is the worst that can happen. A stapler goes feral and starts attacking employees? Falling from the great height of an office chair? Unfortunately, for those suffering from...
How to Avoid Developing Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI)
We are currently in the middle of a glorious English summer and that means a large percentage of the population is glued to the television watching the greatest tennis competition in the world - Wimbledon. To keep in the spirit of tennis and all the memories of hot,...
Claimant cost success in interim (PAD) application subject to CPR 45.29H
Skowron -v- Rollers Roller Disco Ltd, 8 June 2017, Truro County Court, unreported The issue at hand in this hearing was the level of fixed costs awarded to the Claimant following an Order of the Court, without a hearing, for Pre-Action Disclosure. The case was heard...
Out of Sight – Coping With Vision Loss
When you are blessed with perfect vision it is difficult to imagine what it must be like to have the ability to see clearly taken away from you. However, almost two million people in the UK live with sight loss and around 360,000 of these people have severe or...
How Brain Injuries Can Affect People In Different Ways
The brain is the most complex computer humans are likely to every encounter. Much of how the brain works is beyond our understanding, although medical science is experiencing regular breakthroughs. Traumatic brain injury affects different people in different ways....
Claiming Compensation If You Trip On a Pothole
Have you ever walked past a pothole on the footpath and thought, “that’s an accident waiting to happen”. Unfortunately for some, they do not see the pothole in time. Usually, those who trip only sufferthe pain of the humiliation that comes from sprawling ungainly in...
