£4,447 Won For Manufacturing Maintenance Worker’s Industrial Hearing Loss

Stanworth Law recently successfully secured £4,447 in compensation for a client’s industrial hearing loss claim. Our client developed hearing loss during 21 years of service in the manufacturing industry.  

From 1978 to 1999, our client developed significant hearing problems due to two decades of exposure to intense industrial noise. The client approached Stanworth Law to make it clear that they wanted compensation for the injuries sustained.  

In the first meeting, it was clear to the specialist industrial hearing loss claim solicitors at Stanworth Law that our client was exposed to a variety of noises that would have caused the damage. The client went into detail, describing the air tools, grinders, mechanical presses, drills, CNC millers, lathes, park erosion equipment and the noise that each of those pieces of equipment made.  

Believing there was a definite case to be made, Stanworth Law then proceeded with arranging comprehensive hearing assessments. Our expert team care about industrial maintenance workers and believe every employee deserves protection from harmful workplace noise. 

One of our team, a dedicated occupational disease specialist with Stanworth Law, was then assigned to manage the case, providing professional and empathetic guidance throughout so we could build our case. 

Stanworth Law then got the ball rolling on medical assessments so that we could further build on the evidence of the case. A specialist coordinated both audiogram testing and ENT examination. Our legal team used these medical assessments and related them to the workplace conditions our client endured. We included the extended shifts our client would do, working beyond eight hours and near multiple noise sources. 

We were confident that we could prove that over his 21-year career, there was a lack of adequate hearing protection and exposure to multiple machinery types.