Work Injuries - Articles
Use of Sledgehammer Leads to Large Damages Payout
Our client was a rigger who had spent his adult working life doing heavy physical work. As one would expect working in this industry, he suffered the occasional injury. Fortunately after having a short period off work fo...
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Workers Compensation Win - Medical Expenses Argument About injury in The Course of Employment
Our client was a bulldozer driver working and living away from home. Having finished work for the day, he returned to his room at the campsite, cleaned up and then walked to the mess area for dinner. On the walk, he slip...
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Crane Driver's Wild Ride Results in Large Compensation Payout
Our client was a crane driver who had been instructed to drive his mobile crane from one country town to another. He set off early one morning and upon reaching the top of a hill, suddenly found that the mobile crane had...
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Tongan Glass Worker Compensated For Employers Unsafe Lifting Practises
Our client, Mr O, had worked in the glass manufacturing industry since arriving from Tonga many years ago.
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KiwI Forced Home Due To Back injury
Our work injury damages team here at Taylor & Scott Compensation Lawyers, recently completed a work injury damages claim for a New Zealand formwork carpenter. Simon Meigan, Partner, Accredited Specialist and expert ...
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Fall From Ladder Ends Labourer's Career
Recently, the litigation team here at Taylor & Scott led by Simon Meigan, Partner and Accredited Specialist in Personal Injury, completed a work injury damages claim for a labourer who was injured in a fall from a la...
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Walking On REO Destroys Concreter
Our client was a concreter who had spent many years working on building sites. On this particular day, the boss had directed our client and a couple of fellow workers to carry a trowel machine weighing over 100kgs across...
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Labourer injures Back Lifting 80kg Oxygen Cylinder
Our client was required to access an oxygen cylinder in a storage shed. No assistance, trolley or lifting device was provided. As a result of the lift, our client suffered serious injury to his back which has required tw...
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Unreasonable Demand On Workers To Lift Steel Beams Has Tragic Consequences
Our client, a labourer, was one of a team of men called on to lift, carry and manoeuvre into a confined space, a number of steel beams each weighing over 600kgs. As a result of this unsafe system of work, he started expe...
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Shop Assistant Suffers Permanent injuries From Fall At Work
Recently David Hartstein, Special Counsel at Taylor & Scott and an accredited specialist in personal injury, acted for a young woman who suffered a serious fall at work.
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Eye injury Devastates Formwork Carpenter
Recently Simon Meigan, Accredited Personal Injury Specialist, acted for a formwork carpenter who was required by his employer to strip formwork.
To perform this task, our client was given a pinchbar and a hammer and told...
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Unsafe Work Practices Cause Major injury To Backhoe Driver
Our client was employed to drive a backhoe at a coal mine. This meant that for many hours every day, he was bouncing around over rough and uneven ground and straining his neck to reverse the backhoe as he moved coal arou...
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