I’m employed as a lorry driver and on the day of my accident I had my cup of tea and rich tea biscuit, as usual, while the supervisor was distributing the jobs for the day.I was dismayed to be told that I had a delivery to make from Southampton to Edinburgh, as I was intending to take the wi... [More]

I was at work in the kitchen of a busy hotel. As part of my duties as a chef I had to routinely carry a forty-litre saucepan full of potatoes and boiling water from a worktop to a cooker. On the day of my accident (a Saturday) I hoisted the pan off the work surface and was in the middle of carryin... [More]

I work in a warehouse, undertaking various duties including unloading deliveries from the backs of lorries. On the day of my accident I was using an adjustable conveyor belt, the height of which is regulated by two hydraulic bottle jacks. I had been trained how to use the machine, but all the tr... [More]

I was on holiday with a friend of mine and we had hired a boat for the day. We located our boat on the quayside and were walking down a set of stone steps to reach it. At the bottom step I caught my foot on part of the step that had cracked and raised, and fell forward and struck my head on the si... [More]

I was saying goodbye to my father outside my house in south London, and was standing in the road beside the driver’s side door. Suddenly a car turned out of a side road about ten metres away and roared towards us at great speed. Thankfully for my dad, he was already inside his car with the d... [More]