Workplace Fatalities

• Compensation for Workplace Accidents in the UK: A guide for serious and life-changing injuries

  • PostedMay 13, 2026

  Suffering an accident at work can have consequences far beyond the initial injury. For some people, the impact is short-lived. For others, a workplace accident can affect their health, livelihood,...

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• Norwich jury concludes that death of Mrs Blundell was an Accident

  • PostedMarch 27, 2026

  The Inquest into the death of Mrs Blundell, who died in December 2023 while lone working at the East of England Co-op Funeral Services branch in Swaffham, has been taking...

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• £110,000 injury claim settlement following workplace fatality

  • PostedMay 19, 2025

  Graham Heywood, a personal injury specialist solicitor at Ashtons Legal, has successfully settled a claim on behalf of the family of a man who died as a result of an...

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• Agriculture fatalities remain too high

  • PostedSeptember 17, 2019

  It was once said that the Austrian composer Anton Bruckner did not compose nine symphonies but composed one symphony nine times. More of that later. In the meantime the Health...

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• HSE annual workplace fatality figures released

  • PostedJuly 17, 2017

  HSE (Health and Safety Executive) work-related fatal accident figures for April 2016 to March 2017 have been published. Sadly, there were 137 fatalities in that period though this is the...

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