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We Solicitors have secured £3000 for S from Oldham, who suffers with work related hearing loss. Mrs. S developed occupational deafness over a period of several years, working as an Assembly Worker in the Pressroom for HM Stationary Office and a Tester, Solderer and Examiner for Osram Limited.
Mrs McK wins settlement of £8,500.00 through WE Solicitors, for her noise induced hearing loss claim.
WE Solicitors managed to obtain £2,500 compensation for Miss S from Preston. Miss S worked for British Northrop as a central lathe turner from 1962 until 1967. At British Northrop Miss S was exposed to excessive noise from milling machines, drilling machines and lathes. Even though Miss S’s exposure was a long time ago, WE Solicitors were still successful in obtaining compensation.
It is only in recent years that the level of noise in the workplace was even considered to be a potential hazard. Before the early 1960s, industrial deafness was not recognised or the excessive levels taken for granted and simply ignored, leaving the many who worked in industrial heavy manufacturing and factory environments to be continually exposed to developing serious hearing damage.
Medical science has long known that loud noises, experienced over an extended period of time, even at an early time in one’s life, can cause acoustic trauma which may not be recognised or sufficiently detected until after some considerable time has elapsed.
