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				<title>Firms fined over gate death tragedy</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ Two companies have been fined after a lorry driver was killed when steel gates which were being unloaded from his vehicle at a site in Inverness fell on him. ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2011 14:29:35 +0100</pubDate>
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				<title>Worker pulled into conveyor machine</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ A firm has been fined £30,000 for safety breaches after one its employees was pulled into machinery used to flatten bags. ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2011 14:28:08 +0100</pubDate>
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				<title>Firm fined after worker breaks leg</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ An accident in which a worker broke his leg when hit by a truck has led to a £9,000 fine for a food processing company. ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2011 14:26:50 +0100</pubDate>
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				<title>Firm fined £20,000 after injuries</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ A motor component maker has been fined £20,000 after a worker's thigh bone was shattered by the dropping of a 31-tonne load from a crane. ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2011 14:25:37 +0100</pubDate>
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				<title>Council fined for poison death</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ East Sussex County Council has been fined £50,000 after a man with Down's syndrome died after he accidentally swallowed dishwasher fluid during an outing.
Colin Woods, 60, thought he was drinking orange squash but his digestive organs were gradually eroded by the sodium hydroxide substance.
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				<pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2011 14:24:08 +0100</pubDate>
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				<title>No claims certificate scam warning</title>
				<link>http://www.claims-management.net/no-claims-certificate-scam-warning</link>
				<description><![CDATA[ Two of the country's leading insurance-related bodies have criticised companies for selling no claims bonus certificates. ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2011 14:22:51 +0100</pubDate>
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				<title>Ceiling fixer fights off appeal</title>
				<link>http://www.claims-management.net/ceiling-fixer-fights-off-appeal</link>
				<description><![CDATA[ A ceiling fixer from Swansea who suffered a serious head injury at work and was subsequently driven to drink has fought off an appeal to deprive him of a payout of more than £500,000. ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2011 14:21:29 +0100</pubDate>
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				<dc:creator>Barker Brooks</dc:creator>
				
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				<title>Building firm fined over roof fall</title>
				<link>http://www.claims-management.net/building-firm-fined-over-roof-fall</link>
				<description><![CDATA[ A Lancashire-based construction company has been fined £8,000 after a worker fell through a roof at a building site. ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2011 12:05:57 +0000</pubDate>
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				<dc:creator>Barker Brooks</dc:creator>
				
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				<title>Worker loses toe in farm accident</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ An Aberdeenshire farmworker had his toe severed when his foot was trapped in a fertiliser spreading machine, a court has heard. ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2011 12:04:22 +0000</pubDate>
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				<title>Firm fined over fork-lift death</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ A fine of £400,000 has been imposed on an automotive manufacturer after an employee died in a workplace accident on the day he was supposed to take voluntary redundancy. ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2011 12:01:49 +0000</pubDate>
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				<dc:creator>Barker Brooks</dc:creator>
				
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				<title>Fine after worker's hand trapped</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ A Leicestershire company has been fined £3,500 after a farm worker's hand became trapped in a press and was seriously injured. ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2011 12:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
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				<dc:creator>Barker Brooks</dc:creator>
				
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				<title>Virgin payout over massage injuries</title>
				<link>http://www.claims-management.net/virgin-payout-over-massage-injuries</link>
				<description><![CDATA[ A total of £300,430 in damages has been awarded to two beauticians who had to give up their jobs after developing repetitive strain injuries from giving massages to air passengers. ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2011 14:51:56 +0000</pubDate>
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				<dc:creator>Barker Brooks</dc:creator>
				
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				<title>Call for troops compensation rise</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ There will be a "significant" increase in compensation awards to all armed forces personnel injured in service, following the full implementation of the recommendations of last year's Boyce Report, it has been announced. ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2011 14:48:17 +0000</pubDate>
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				<dc:creator>Barker Brooks</dc:creator>
				
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				<title>Bricklayer put at asbestos risk</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ A construction site manager has received a suspended sentence after putting a bricklayer at risk of being exposed to asbestos. ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2011 14:46:51 +0000</pubDate>
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				<dc:creator>Barker Brooks</dc:creator>
				
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				<title>Firm fined after worker loses arm</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ A Dutch waste recycling company has been fined £60,000 and ordered to pay £22,000 in legal and medical costs after a worker lost part of his arm in an industrial incident in Basildon, Essex. ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2011 14:45:57 +0000</pubDate>
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				<dc:creator>Barker Brooks</dc:creator>
				
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				<title>Man died after building site fall</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ Two companies have been prosecuted for their lack of safety at a building site which led to a labourer being killed. ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2011 14:44:22 +0000</pubDate>
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				<dc:creator>Barker Brooks</dc:creator>
				
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				<title>Company fined for chemical exposure</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ A utilities company has been fined £4,000 after an agency worker was exposed to a hazardous chemical for several weeks while working in Devon. ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2011 14:40:16 +0000</pubDate>
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				<dc:creator>Barker Brooks</dc:creator>
				
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				<title>MPs 'miss the point' on insurance</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ The Commons Transport Committee's report on the cost of motor insurance has missed the point, according to a trade group representing insurers. ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2011 14:38:40 +0000</pubDate>
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				<title>Truck's fork broke worker's ribs</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ A lack of safety planning at a workplace in Lincolnshire saw the fork of a forklift truck hit an employee, fracturing his ribs. ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2011 14:35:51 +0000</pubDate>
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				<dc:creator>Barker Brooks</dc:creator>
				
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				<title>Damages recipient 'did not mislead'</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ Insurers have failed in a High Court bid to recover most of the £3.4 million damages it paid out to a man left seriously disabled from a road crash. ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2011 14:34:31 +0000</pubDate>
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