Mr P of Mansfield, Notts was working as a joiner fitting bedroom furniture, heavy duty wardrobes, beds and bedside cabinets when the accident occurred. Mr P was working alongside two agency workers carrying wardrobes into a room. The two labourers were carrying one end of the wardrobe and Mr P on the other. The two…
Mr H of Sheffield was working as a security office and patrolling the external areas of his workplace when he noticed a barrier gate was stuck in an elevated position. Mr H reported the fault to the operations room and went to inspect the barrier. As he placed his left hand on the barrier, it…
Mr G sustained injury at work whilst driving a Four Way Reach Truck. The yard area in which the truck drove over was potholed and defective. The truck drove over potholes in a traffic route, causing Mr G to jolt and sustain an injury to his back. Mr G suffered increasing and progressive pain to…
ASD Solicitors recently acted for an employee who was the victim of a prank at work that went disastrously wrong. Mr A, a mechanic in Doncaster, suffered a fracture to his cervical spine when a colleague within the workshop came up from behind and pulled his neck back with great force. This so-called ‘whiplash’ was…
ASD Solicitors recently acted for a HGV driver who slipped from the back of a wagon while working for a local haulage company: Hargreaves Transport. Unfortunately Mr W suffered a fracture to his hip after he fell due to the lack of hand grabs to the rear of his employer’s trailer. Liability was denied and…
ASD Solicitors assisted a Sheffield client who was injured at work. Mr Smith was briefly knocked out when he struck his head on a defective horizontal bar, outside of his place of work. Initially, Mr Smith complained of a neck injury but in the weeks following the accident suffered a range of symptoms including dizziness,…
It’s estimated that there are currently 700,000 workers engaged on zero contracts in the UK. Many of those are employed through agencies. In the event of an injury at work, what rights do those workers have? Who do they seek compensation from, and are they treated differently from other employees? ASD Solicitors recently acted for…
Richard Long, Senior Partner, recently acted for a Client claiming damages against his employer arising out of a serious accident at work. The Claimant suffered a savage crush injury to his right leg when a concrete block fell on him. Liability was admitted by the Claimant’s employer soon after the claim was intimated. Quantifying the…
ASD represented a food operative in a claim against his employer following a slip on floor mounted scales. Our Client sustained a nasty injury to his ankle. His employer’s insurers denied liability throughout and we were forced to take the matter to trial. Having listened to evidence from both sides, the District Judge agreed with…
ASD assisted Mr G of Sheffield who was seriously injured following an accident at work. The client suffered a lower back injury resulting in him being absent from work for 18 months. Mr G was required to manually lift an extremely heavy lintel from the back of a wagon. The employer failed to plan or…
