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May 30, 2022

WE successfully represent former industrial cleaner.

WE Solicitors recently represented Mr B who, from the mid 1980’s, was employed by industrial cleaning companies.  The companies were called Newlife Cleaning Systems Ltd and Universal Engineer Consultants Limited.  The latter were a demolition, decommissioning and decontamination company based in Barnard Castle, County Durham.

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Jul 20, 2020

Liability to compensate for noise induced hearing loss passes from long dissolved subsidiary to parent company.

Mr C contacted WE Solicitors about a claim for noise induced hearing loss, having been exposed during the course of his employment with The Metropolitan Construction Company Limited, from the late 60’s to mid 70’s. Mr C was employed as an Operative and later a Driver Operative with the Company. His main role was to break up concrete floors, reduce concrete, dig trenches in concrete and scarify concrete walls. He was exposed to the noise from not only the work he was doing but that of his colleagues.

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