Pages On: Shop Accidents
Wherever you shop, business have a duty of care to customers. If a company has failed in this and caused you injury, be it from a slip, trip or fall, collapsing displays or any other accident, you could claim occupiers liability compensation. This is why it is of utmost importance that stores provide a safe environment and train staff in maintaining it.
Shopping centre fined £75,000 for severing a man's toe
Posted: 31 December 2015
Posted in: Foot Injuries, Public Place Accidents, Shop Accidents
A shopping centre in Nottingham has been fined £75K after a customer was severely injured on an escalator. 27-year-old Michael Reddington had been shopping in the West End Arcade when his foot got trapped in an escalator, resulting in the loss of his big toe. The incident happened on 15 March 2012 when Mr Reddington had been trying to pick up his mobile phone after dropping it. It was heard that the sound engineer had accidentally placed his left foot inside a missing part of the escalator’s steps, which he…
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Pensioner wins compensation for a fall in a supermarket
Posted: 10 December 2015
Posted in: Arm Injury, Head and Brain Injuries, Public Place Accidents, Shop Accidents
Supermarket giant, Sainsbury’s, has paid out a five-figure sum to pensioner Jean Annis, 79 from Alsager, following a compensation claim. Mrs Annis tripped on matting in the Sainsbury’s Local store causing four fractures to her right arm, which has left her unable to use her right hand. She also sustained injuries to her eye, lip and chin. The injury to her arm has left Mrs Annis, who is also carer to her husband Norman, aged 89 and suffering from dementia, unable to carry out simple daily tasks such as cutting…
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Boy wins compensation following childhood injury
Posted: 2 March 2015
Posted in: Head and Brain Injuries, Public Place Accidents, Restaurant Accidents, Shop Accidents
When Jack Cooper was only 12-months-old an autistic child pushed him in his baby chair – leaving him with severe head injuries. The accident happened in March 2005 at a café in Morrisons at Teeside Park. He was tipped head first onto the floor while strapped in his baby chair. The council admitted to failing to control the autistic child who subsequently caused harm. Jack turned 11 last week and still suffers with the effects of the accident. The fall left him deaf in one ear and the brain injuries…
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Man seriously injured after department store fall
Posted: 30 December 2014
Posted in: Head and Brain Injuries, Public Place Accidents, Shop Accidents
A man is currently in hospital with severe injuries after he fell in a department store in south-west London. The accident happened at around 13:05, when the man, believed to be in his 20s, fell from an escalator. A fellow customer in the shop, a 28-year-old woman from Richmond, said she was walking away from the escalator when she heard a sudden thud. It is believed that the man fell from the third or fourth floor. The customer said that the entire floor gasped when they saw what had happened.…
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