While Express Solicitors is a national Personal Injury Law firm we do still enjoy a large client base from our local Greater Manchester area. A healthy proportion of these are the walking wounded who pop in to our Northenden HQ as well as the more seriously injured who require a representative to visit them either [...]

An inquest has recently recorded a verdict of accidental death in the case of rugby player Chris Tickle. Chris was just 23 when he died following an accident in a rugby match in 2009. He was called up as a lastminute replacement for a prop forward who had been injured and sustained a serious spinal [...]

It seems the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is really clamping down on negligent employers whose actions cause serious injuries to their workforce. Following the latest fine 6500pounds for a poultry business in Norfolk after a worker broke his back after falling from a ladder Saffron Turnell of HSE said in a statement that the [...]

The Health & Safety Executive (HSE) has sued a Manchester packaging firm after a factory worker suffered a serious accident. Karen Schoelzel of Golborne was working for Arrow Flexible Packing Ltd when an attempt to fit a rubber insert on a cutting tool went badly wrong. The machine suddenly started operating and badly injured her [...]

Employment Minister Chris Grayling has published a list of what he describes as the ‘most bizarre’ reasons for banning activities in the name of health and safety. It’s hightime that some of these myths were debunked as they give Health & Safety Law a bad name and dilute it as a force for good. The [...]

I was shocked to learn of the recent death of a 62 year old man at a factory in Greater Manchester.  Mr. James Kay was working as a subcontractor at the Sonae plant which manufactures chipboard and particle when he suffered fatal injuries and was pronounced dead at the scene on Saturday morning. Factory Death [...]

I’ve noticed a lot of recent media attention devoted to Mrs. Sudesh Bala’s accident of October 2010 which occurred at her workplace of ten years Shobha UK. She was badly injured sustaining severe burns to her back groin and buttocks when she fell into an industrialsized cooking pot full of chicken curry. Mrs. Bala is [...]

Heinz the wellknown baked bean manufacturer has been fined 20000 pounds by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) after pleading guilty to two health and safety offences. It follows an incident at their factory in Wigan Greater Manchester where a 65 year old man injured his hand while operating machinery. He was making a new metal [...]

Last weeks Budget has promised to save businesses £350million in red tape lessening the financial burden and encouraging growth. Among other things George Osborne has promised to implement in full the recommendations in Lord Young’s Health and Safety report. Designed to save businesses money I fear these reforms could shatter the UK’s enviable Health and [...]

A case of mine made the press today after my client Mrs. Denise Lindley of Preston was awarded around 7600 pounds damages for a slip on ice outside the care centre where she used to work. In 2007 a damaged discharge pipe flooded a staff entrance to the Leyland Care Centre and Mrs. Lindley slipped [...]