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You may remember me from my other thread, 'Bruised Eye at Work..", in which a few of the members successfully helped me settle my claim. As a thanks to the forum, I took out a subscription.
I have now received an offer for claim #2, for which I would again be grateful for your help.
Claim Description
There is a tool on my job for which I used to change a setting.
The tool was allegedly supposed to work at 20Nm.
Occasionally, less than a handful of times per shift, or per 250 cycles. It would spike with extreme force. I am 17st, and it would pull me off balance.
I had complained for 2 years about this. Tool maintenance (useless pisshead), would come out and find 'no fault'.
A stand in manager once told me it was impossible to happen.
Eventually, the fault was found, and it was allegedly spiking at over 140Nm.
The job involved holding the tool with both hands, arms outstretched, facing downwards, and pressing the button. There shouldn't be no free at 20Nm, but at over 140Nm, it could trap your right hand between the chassis of the vehicle. This is where it caused a minor bruising/swelling injury to my right thumb.
I visited works OH Dept to log. No time off. No GP visit.
The union solicitors have come back with a value of £650, and said they will put forward a £1100 offer to the other side. As advised before here, I will ask how he came to that valuation.
What is your advice on this matter please?
I have now received an offer for claim #2, for which I would again be grateful for your help.
Claim Description
There is a tool on my job for which I used to change a setting.
The tool was allegedly supposed to work at 20Nm.
Occasionally, less than a handful of times per shift, or per 250 cycles. It would spike with extreme force. I am 17st, and it would pull me off balance.
I had complained for 2 years about this. Tool maintenance (useless pisshead), would come out and find 'no fault'.
A stand in manager once told me it was impossible to happen.
Eventually, the fault was found, and it was allegedly spiking at over 140Nm.
The job involved holding the tool with both hands, arms outstretched, facing downwards, and pressing the button. There shouldn't be no free at 20Nm, but at over 140Nm, it could trap your right hand between the chassis of the vehicle. This is where it caused a minor bruising/swelling injury to my right thumb.
I visited works OH Dept to log. No time off. No GP visit.
The union solicitors have come back with a value of £650, and said they will put forward a £1100 offer to the other side. As advised before here, I will ask how he came to that valuation.
What is your advice on this matter please?
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