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Injury Prevention Week – Collisions

APIL’s injury prevention week is focusing on e-scooters this year. We’ve all seen them (and encountered them, no doubt) and it is clear they are a swift way to move within a city without the need for additional vehicles on the road.   However, if in the hands of riders who lack care, they are…

When lack of paperwork proves fatal

The report in the Daily Mail yesterday on an accident at Greenfields Limited in Leicestershire paints a picture of a dreadful fatal accident involving two men at their place of work.   One of them, 19 year old Nathan Walker, was expecting his first child – who was born 15 days after his death. Nathan…

Can Voxel’s AI technology stop accidents from happening at work?

Here in the EL/PL Department, we recently hosted our work experience student Lauren Young.   Lauren assisted Alex with some of her day to day file tasks, observed her discussing cases with clients over the phone and took time to consider a new article outlining what workers in a new company, Voxel, are doing to…

The pressures of working at speed in an Amazon warehouse

Anyone who needs a Birthday present at short notice, or realises they have a missing ingredient for the cakes they are making for the school fair, will appreciate the speed and convenience of hopping onto the Amazon website and ordering a delivery for the next day.   However, items arriving at speed can put untold…

Pressures from Amazon lead to a surge in accidents at work

The manufacturing industry is a field where workers are at a higher risk of sustaining injury, with 34 employees dying through the course of their employment in 2020/2021, a rise of 7 from the previous year.   This is the third highest sector, with only construction and agriculture having higher figures. The most common accidents include…

Overwhelming Result Sees A Claimant Recover Over £26,000 More Than Expected

Since updated legal reforms came into force in 2013, Solicitors’ fees recoverable from Defendants have significantly reduced. To balance this out, Claimant law firms have been permitted to take a portion of the winnings to cover their remaining fees.   To be able to do this, the Solicitor has to establish that they have not…

300kg Glass Hits Worker

300kg of glass fell onto a work in Australia resulting in severe injuries to his head and shoulder. It is not yet know how the pane of glass came to fall on the sixty-seven-year-old man. The ambulance crew and a specialist medical team attended the scene and were fast-acting to assist the gentleman. What is…

Construction Worker Falls From Roof

A man who had fallen onto a roof at a construction site on Eskdale Terrace in Jesmond, has suffered multiple injuries that were classed as non-life threatening. The Air ambulance crew were responders to the scene and treated his injuries before he was taken by ambulance to the Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI) in Newcastle.  …

Workplace Accidents Abroad – It’s not just Britain!

Over the last few weeks, I have written articles on fatalities and the issues and risks employees face in the workplace. My last two articles dealt with a fatality in a greenhouse and on a building site.  This recent article on 24/7 Wall Street makes it clear that it is not just in this country…

Worker Loses Two Fingers Due To Moulding Machine

It has been reported that company William Lee Ltd has been prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) following investigations into an accident that took place on 28th February 2018 after worker loses two fingers.   The Dronfield based engineering firm, who manufactures automotive components, was found to have had inadequate risk assessment in…