Forklift Truck Accident Safety: Some Conditions to Take Care

At the same time as forklifts make storehouse tasks much more easygoing, they can cause forklift truck accident claims, and even bring death, when they are used in offensive way.

The driver can get critically injured or put to death if the appropriate forklift safety procedures are not ensured. Forklift drivers have to be seated constantly, the need to be familiar with how big load the forks can lift, they must be aware of their environmental conditions all the time.

Almost every storage warehouse employs a forklift – a tool that can lift tens of hundreds of pounds. A forklift is a truck just like a small truck that comprises two heavy metal forks used to carry goods. The forklift driver operate the forklift onward up to a time that the forks reach under the pallet, and can subsequently carry the goods much higher in the air as required by using the forks. The forks, also named as blades, are generally heavy steel and can carry certain tons.

Compensation claims a modern day phenomenon? Don’t you believe it

If you blame today’s over litigious law firms for the apparent rise in personal injury claims then you’d better check your facts.

Most people would consider today’s “claim culture” to be a modern phenomenon; an affliction of the 21st century. But in fact, a long history of personal injury compensation can be traced.

Documents dating back as far as the 9th century show that among the many bizarre laws of the day was a ruling that: “If anyone knocks out a man’s eye, he shall give him 66 shillings, six pence and the third part of a penny as compensation.”

So the accident claim might not be such a modern day creation after all. But what people actually claim for and why they feel the need has certainly evolved over the centuries.

Here are some examples of sometimes self-inflicted and often blatantly frivolous claims dating back hundreds of years; earning payouts worth thousands in today’s money.

Grocer makes juicy claim

Not content with the fruits of his labours, in 1878 a Greengrocer from Lancashire slipped and hurt himself while playing party games with colleagues in his shop. At the time he was awarded £15 – that’s £725 in today’s money.

Pharmacist ends up nursing his own injuries

In 1885 a Dublin Pharmacists was relaxing in a Turkish bath when he slipped and fell on the marble steps. His reward was a £33 payout – or the equivalent of £1,600.

£2,675 worth getting out of bed for

In a more bizarre case, a man from Birmingham injured himself jumping out of bed to catch his wife; who had feinted. He was awarded £42, or £2,675 in modern money. There is no documentation to prove that his wife put in a claim for her misfortune.

Man blown away by £2,000 windfall

After an artist from Swansea was blown over by a freak gust of wind in 1886, he was awarded £30 for his injuries, that’s just shy of £2,000 today.

Shipbuilder makes a meal out of £57,000 fishbone claim

While munching through a fish sandwich during his lunch break, a ship builder from Great Yarmouth swallowed a bone; almost choking in the process. He received an astonishing £1,000 compensation back in 1900 – that would equate to £57,000 today.

Rice to see you

For anyone who wonders why we now throw confetti at weddings instead of rice, this case may have something to do with it. A man whose eye was injured by flying rice being used to celebrate a bride and groom’s big day in 1892 was paid £50 for his misfortune. That would be £2,998 today.

Who said mixing your drinks wasn’t good for you?

As an innkeeper you’d think you’d be used to handling your drink. This wasn’t the case for a pub landlord in Birmingham who accidentally took poison instead of medicine for a sleeping disorder back in 1878. He was awarded £1000, or £48,610 for his carelessness.