Work accident news
30/10/2007

Scaffolding fall results in multi-million pound compensation

A painter and decorator has received personal injury compensation after a work accident left him with brain damage.

The 45-year-old Bedfordshire man fell through scaffolding whilst working in Windsor in 2003 and spent more than six months in hospital as a result of the accident. He now requires the use of a wheelchair and 24-hour care and the brain injury is said to have adversely affected his personality.

Making a work accident compensation claim at London's High Court, the former painter and decorator told how a plank he was standing on "split in half" as he was working, sending him tumbling six metres onto stone steps.

The court ordered the Luton man's former employers to pay a lump sum of £2.4 million in damages, as well as index-linked payments of £105,000 each year for the rest of his life.

It is believed the work accident compensation will enable the brain damaged man to move out of his current nursing home accommodation and live in his own specially adapted house.