Compensation claim news
24/09/2007
Foundry man wins damages for work accident

A Scottish foundry worker who suffered serious back injuries in a work accident has made a successful compensation claim for damages.

The 43-year-old Stenhousemuir man broke his back when he fell 10ft from a platform in 2003 and consequently had to spend four months in a spinal brace. He also required six months of physiotherapy and medical experts have confirmed that he will suffer from "a restrictive amount of pain" for the rest of his life.

Making his personal injury compensation claim at the Court of Sessions, the injured metal dresser asked his former employers for damages of £250,000 on the basis that he has been unable to work since the industrial accident.

Foundry bosses contested the work accident claim, however, insisting that the man had recently been spotted carrying out casual work. Photographs of him helping a friend construct garden decking were produced but the court refused to believe that he was "anything other than genuine" and accepted that he did deserve injury compensation.

Lord Kinclaven, overseeing the case, subsequently ordered the former foundry worker to be awarded work accident compensation of £134,822.