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Health and Safety News

Created: 13 November 2015

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Thompsons helped secure £23,000 compensation for Union member, Jeffrey McIlhenny following an accident at work.At the time of the accident Mr McIlhenny was a scaffolder working for DSL Services.  While working nightshift one evening our client was...

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Health and Safety News

Created: 27 October 2015

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A Thompsons client has received £6,750 after suffering an accident at work on 17 November 2012. Our client came to us through his union, who funded his claim. The man fell whilst he was retrieving a parcel from a trailer in his workplace. He worked...

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Created: 23 December 2014

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A HGV driver employed by the London Borough of Harrow has been awarded compensation following an accident which resulted left him with part of his finger amputated. Neil Beard, 49, brought the claim with the assistance of his union, UNISON, and the...

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Health and Safety News

Created: 11 January 2013

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The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has prosecuted a health screening company for using unqualified staff to test workers for Hand Arm Vibration Syndrome (HAVS).

Audio Medical Services Ltd, was employed by several companies across the UK to carry...

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Health and Safety News

Created: 25 July 2012

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The Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL) has highlighted recently that plans to dilute health and safety regulations could leave Britain’s dock workers with no specialist safety protection.

Proposals put forward by the Health and Safety...

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Health and Safety News

Created: 01 November 2011

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GREATER EFFORTS NEEDED FROM OIL COMPANIES TO IMPROVE PLATFORM SAFETY

Scotland’s leading personal injury firm, which represented the Piper Alpha victims, Thompsons Solicitors, has called on oil companies to take health and safety on oil platforms...

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Health and Safety News

Created: 19 August 2011

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- WORKER HAS RIGHT TO DEMAND FURTHER REDRESS

Scotland’s top personal injury firm and health and safety campaigners, Thompsons Solicitors, has welcomed the news that a recycling company in Ayr received an £80,000 fine for breaking the Health and...

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Health and Safety News

Created: 21 July 2011

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Greenock man Stephen Anderson never expected that when he tried the Jump4Fun’s bungee run that he would break four toes and his foot in ten places and have to take three months off work.

The 28 year old, who needed emergency surgery after the...

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Health and Safety News

Created: 16 August 2010

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A highland haulage firm have been banned from operating for three weeks after being caught carrying a dangerously secured load. The logs that the lorry was carrying on the A9 were so badly secured that a serious road traffic accident could have been...

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Created: 10 June 2010

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A woman has sustained head injuries after building signage fell on top of her. The freak accident occurred outside the Reflex nightclub in Plymouth on a busy Saturday morning when the 30ft sign became detached from its mountings in high winds. The...

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