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Accident at work investigated by Petroleum Safety Authority

Categories: Accident at Work | Tags: , , | Written by Paul on June 30, 2009

 

An accident at work on the Deepsea Bergen left a man with crushing injuries. The incident was investigated by the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway, revealing that several health and safety regulations were not observed.

A man suffered crushing injuries to his chest while working on the drill platform. The crew were working on the grating on the top of the drill’s cabin when a man became trapped between the access platform and the railing. He was flown by helicopter the hospital. The following nonconformities were uncovered:

Deficient management, understanding of risk and risk assessment
Deficient planning, organisation and execution
Deficient communication
Deficient procedures and instructions
Deficient compliance with procedures and instructions

The police have asked the PSA for their assistance while they investigate the accident at work. The condition of the injured man is not known at this time.

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Avoid accidents at work by being health and safety conscious

Categories: Accident at Work | Tags: , , | Written by Michael on June 27, 2009

 

The Health and Safety Executive has released figures showing that as many as 12 employees died in accidents and work in east England in 2008. According to Heather Bryant of the HSE, these figures are too high and could be reduced if employers had been more stringent with health and safety measures.

Heather Bryant has called for businesses to take health and safety more seriously.

There are families throughout the region who have been cruelly robbed of a loved one in incidents that in many cases were entirely preventable.

The Institute of Occupational Safety and Health has (more…)

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Person Injury lawyers ask man if he wants to sue himself

Categories: Personal Injury Lawyers | Tags: , , | Written by Hilary on June 25, 2009

 

If you’re a business owner, the last thing you want is for personal injury lawyers to be contacting your employees and asking if they want to sue you, their employer, for personal injuries sustained because of an accident at work.

Indeed the only thing worse than that would be if the personal injury lawyers accidentally asked you, as the business owner, if you wanted to sue your own company for injuries you had sustained.

That’s just what happened to one business owner due to the personalised targeted adverts in the social networking website Facebook. The personalised ads on Facebook work off the profile information contained on your page, so if you’re based in Manchester and your relationship status is set to single, you might see ads for singles in Manchester.

One business owner, who owns his own gym, saw an ad from a personally injury law form asking if he wanted to sue his employer for injuries.

The video for the incident can be seen here on the BBC website.

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Council refuse to pay compensation to driver after pothole accident

Categories: Compensation Claim,Public Liability | Tags: , , , | Written by Hilary on June 23, 2009

 

Essex County Council has refused to acknowledge liability after a motorist suffered damage to his car on a road that was filled with potholes. Twenty-eight-year-old Daniel Bowler’s car was damaged when he hit a pothole in Layer-de-la-Haye, causing his wheel to buckle. The repairs to his car cost him £400, but Essex council denied liability.

Mr Bowler, who is a quantity surveyor, stated:

I was only going about 30mph when I hit the pothole, but it buckled the alloy wheel.

I sent off all the documentation and photographs to Essex County Council but I got a horrendous letter back accusing me of fraud, saying they’d get the police involved.

It was a completely genuine claim.

However the council stated they weren’t liable for any damage to vehicles caused by potholes.

They said that as long as they’d checked the road at a certain date they were not liable for anything that happened.

The same thing has happened to my father-in-law and a friend.

We are paying our taxes, some of which go towards the road repairs, and ironically some towards the legal department that declines to pay out any compensation.

I don’t know what you have to do to get any money out of them after a genuine claim.

A spokesperson for Essex council refused to comment on the case, stating that any disagreement was between the injured party and them. However, they did discuss their policy on potholes and damage to the roads.

However, we have a policy of dealing proactively with potholes, leading the way in using a permanent repair technology which has seen over 8,000 extra potholes treated in the past six months.

We want to ensure that as few potholes appear in the first place as possible.

Over the past three years the principal road work has received extra funding of £45 million and an extra £10 million pounds is currently being invested in improving residential and estate roads.

In 2008/9 over 170 miles of road was upgraded in the county and the 4,500 mile network is independently recognised as one of the best in the UK.

That probably won’t come as much consolation to Mr Bowler.

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Police officers suffer whiplash injuries at work

Categories: Accident at Work,Road Traffic Accident (RTA) | Tags: , , , , | Written by Michael on June 22, 2009

 

Two police offers suffered whiplash injuries when a car they were in pursuit of crashed into them. This prompted a judge to call for much tougher driving sentencing for dangerous drivers.

The pursuit happened in Bradford in the north of England this past week when the 4×4 vehicle being driven by Mr Jaspal Singh collided with both cars, causing whiplash injuries to the two police officers.

Singh had already been sentenced for dangerous driving in October 2007 and was on the run after failing to show up in court. He was spotted by police driving his 4×4 and fled the scene, with the police in pursuit.

He fled the police, driving the wrong way down the road and through a red light. The whiplash injuries occurred when he reversed his car into a following patrol car, and the car behind that.

Judge Scott said of the dangerous driving:

These were both very bad offences. They indicate yet again the necessity of the maximum sentence for dangerous driving being enlarged from two years to at least five years.

I point out for the benefit of the public the maximum sentence permitted for a plea of guilty in the first instance is 16 months in custody which is no way long enough.

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Amateur footballer wins personal injury compensation payout

Categories: Compensation Claim,Personal Injury,Public Liability | Tags: , , | Written by Paul on June 21, 2009

 

A man has successfully claimed for personal injury compensation after injuring himself playing on a football pitch that was waterlogged. The man, who remains unnamed, won £13,000 in personal injury compensation after he fractured his tibia and his shinbone when he was playing on a five-a-side match with friends at the JJB Sports Soccer Dome.

Staff at the sports centre told them that the pitch was playable even though it was waterlogged. The injuries caused the man to miss 15 weeks of work.

JJB argued that the football pitch wasn’t dangerous and the injuries sustained by the man were as a result of the tackle he experienced, rather than the state of the pitch.

Personal injury lawyers Ellis-Fermor & Negus fought the case in Derby, winning the man £13,404 in injury compensation.

Kevin Bampton is the head of law at the University of Derby, stated:

This is not someone letting teams play on their field. It’s a major sports company which should have known about the risks involved.

An amateur footballer isn’t going to know about the full potential for injury.

For that sort of injury, the time off work, ongoing physiotherapy, that sort of thing, that’s a relatively small amount.

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Builder earns £270,000 personal injury compensation after fall at Heathrow

Categories: Accident at Work,Compensation Claim,Personal Injury | Tags: , , , | Written by Michael on June 20, 2009

 

terminal-5A builder who was working on the new Terminal 5 at Heathrow has been awarded £250,000 in personal injury compensation after he fell from 12oft from the roof. The builder, twenty-four-year-old Parminder Singh, fell from the roof in 2005 when a girder he was standing on snapped. He suffered personal injuries to his back, leg and head.

A work colleague, Mr Matthew Gilbert, died in the incident.

Mr Singh battled for personal injury compensation for four years because the Home Office wouldn’t let him back into the UK when he had returned to India to recover from his injuries. At the time of accident Mr Singh lived in Slough.

Mr Singh said of the accident at work:

I can’t remember much about the fall but I suffered nightmares for months. It was truly a miracle I survived. My leg was broken and my knee, back, jaw and teeth were injured. Life has been very difficult. I have been left with one leg shorter than the other and unless I move about my body seizes up.

According to doctors, Mr Singh only survived the fall because he was very fit as a martial arts expert.

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