Personal injury solicitor news
08/02/2008
Factory worker wins RSI claim

With the help of her personal injury solicitor, a 48-year-old factory worker has received a work injury compensation payout of £17,000 after developing a serious repetitive strain injury.

It is understood that the personal injury solicitor managed to mount strong evidence that his client developed RSI as a result of receiving too few breaks, none of the necessary health and safety warnings and none of the recommended job rotation.

During the work injury settlement it emerged that the factory worker regularly packed as many as 4,500 DVD accessory packs each day for years, during which time she experienced the boredom and physical pain of intense manual repetition.

The claimant commented, "All our time was spent at our workstations doing the same repetitive job. The condition of my right hand and wrist eventually became so bad that I couldn't continue working.

"Sadly, the symptoms I've developed as a result have made it very difficult for me to cope around the home, for example ironing and dressing and undressing. "I've had to have various treatments, including an injection into my right wrist, physiotherapy, a decompression operation on my wrist, and I'm now awaiting a further decompression operation on my forearm."

Her woman's union representative argued that the outcome of her work injury claim should serve as a warning to other employers, "Her employer ignored her complaints of ill health and continued to set very tough targets for the production line, without adequate breaks. She has now been medically retired at just 48 and faces an uncertain future."

The personal injury solicitor who represented the woman felt that they had managed to secure her a fair outcome, "Her compensation is fully justified and we hope that this settlement sends a message to other employers."