Accident at Work - Lack of Manual Handling Training & Work Equipment
Our client submitted a personal injury claim as a result of an accident in May 2009. She was
employed by the Defendants and during the course of her work, she was required to place 6
packs of 1 litre bottles of soft drinks back into the stock room. This required her to lift the
packs out of the bottom of a normal shopping trolley, place them down onto the floor and
then pick them back up off floor, and move forward to place them, at around knee to waist
height, towards the back wall and over some stacked bottles that were in the way.
It was whilst she was attempting to complete these awkward manoeuvres that the Claimant
sustained an injury to her back.
It was our claim that the Defendants were negligent in that they had failed to maintain
the workplace given that the storeroom was poorly organised and awkward to manoeuvre
around and that the Claimant had received no manual handling training. As such, the
Defendants exposed our client to a foreseeable risk of injury.
A claim was brought against the Defendants in accordance with the Manual Handling
Operation Regulations 1992, the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations
1992 and Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations1998.
Liability was admitted in full and we are currently obtaining medical evidence in support of our client’s claim for personal injuries.