Category: Accidents at Work

Top 9 Accident Claims Blawg Legal Blogs & Pages

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Post date September 22, 2024
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Accident Claims Blawg is a trusted resource for personal injury claims, offering valuable legal insights across various jurisdictions. Below are the top 9 blog posts and pages that provide essential information and tools for anyone dealing with accident claims and personal injury law. These posts offer legal information, tools, and directories for navigating accident claims […]

When to Hire a Lawyer for Injuries at Work

Post author By accidentclaimsblawg
Post date March 26, 2021
Categories In Accidents at Work, Accidents at Work

All employers are by law required to give their workers reasonably healthy and safe working environments. Even so, this is not always the case, and you might be injured at your workplace. The common work-related injuries include slips, falls, spinal injuries from heavy lifting, strain injuries, equipment malfunction injuries in factories, and car accident-related injuries. […]

What Are Occupational Chest Conditions?

Post author By Beecham Peacock Solicitors
Post date October 30, 2019
Categories In Accidents at Work, Accidents at Work, Work Injury Claims

Work related or ‘occupational’ chest conditions are diseases that develop as a result of exposure to certain irritants in the workplace. These conditions are more likely to develop in some occupations than others, such as factory work or a garage. They can worsen over time if they are not immediately diagnosed and treated, so it’s […]

Owning a horse – three different types of compensation claim

Post author By Tim Bishop
Post date January 15, 2014
Categories In Accidents at Work, Negligence, Personal Injury, UK

I have had an accident whilst riding can I claim compensation? If you have experienced a horse riding accident, which was caused by someone else’s negligence, then you may be entitled to claim compensation for your injuries. In order to establish a 3rd party’s negligence you must show that the 3rd party owed you a […]

The consequences of injuries sustained whilst working with dangerous chemicals

Post author By Tim Bishop
Post date January 10, 2014
Categories In Accidents at Work, Breach of Duty of Care, Duty of Care, Personal Injury

The medical consequences of being injured by a dangerous chemical can be extremely serious. The hazard a chemical presents depends on its properties; if it is flammable or corrosive, contact could be result in burns injuries, explosive chemicals could cause injury and damage over a considerable area, whilst poisonous or radio-active chemicals might cause local […]

Council heavily fined after worker suffers severe injuries on the job

A Scottish local authority has been heavily fined by the Sheriff Court after a worker suffered a severe injury in the course of his employment in January 2011. South Lanarkshire Council was fined £50,000 after one of its workers suffered a serious injury to his abdomen in an accident at work on 13 January 2011. […]

Roofer prosecuted after grandmother and grandson burnt with bitumen

A High Wycombe-based builder has been fined by the Redhill Magistrates’ Court after it was found that health and safety breaches by him had caused or contributed to serious injury to a grandmother and her 21-month-old grandson. Self-employed roofer Mr John Terrell, 50, had been contracted to felt a flat roof and in order to […]

Road maintenance firm ordered to pay over £200,000 after motorcyclist paralysed

A Midlands-based road maintenance firm has been heavily fined after a motorcyclist was seriously injured because of health and safety failings by the company. Mr Glynn Turner, 47, was travelling on the south side of the A12 on his motorcycle when he collided with traffic signs at a road closure on 7 June 2010. As […]

Waste recycling firm heavily fined after death of worker in accident at work

A Brigend waste recycling firm has been fined and ordered to pay costs amounting to over £300,000 after the death of a worker at its waste site in December 2010. Mr Geraint Eagle was working for his employer, Nolan Recycling Ltd, at the Old Quarry in Pyle when the accident occurred on 2 December 2010. […]

Construction firm fined after engineer killed by falling steel mast

An East London firm has been heavily fined by the Peterborough Crown Court after one of its employees was crushed by a falling metal mast at its site in Cambridgeshire. Mr Nigel Sewell, 57, was working as a construction engineer at Universal Building Supply Ltd’s site in Wireless Station Park, Kneesworth, when the accident occurred […]