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Have you suffered injury or illness because you were exposed to a hazardous chemical at work? Under the Control of Substances Hazardous to Health regulations your employer has many duties which are designed to protect your health. These include, for example, carrying out a risk assessment and putting in place measures to prevent or control exposure to hazardous substances.
If your employer fails to comply with these regualtions and as a result of this you suffer injury or illness you can make a claim.
Typical injuries caused by exposure to dangerous substances at work include:-
If you believe that you have suffered injury or illness as a result of exposure to chemicals or other hazardous substances at work please get in touch with us.
Our team of specialist work accident claim solicitors will be happy to advise you.
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Two North East firms have been fined a combined £7,000 after a worker suffered serious burns and an electric shock near overhead power lines. An oil company has been handed a £300,000 fine after unnecessarily putting workers on a North Sea rig in danger of radiation exposure. A gas fitter who was operating illegally has been handed a fine of £38,000 after his work caused high levels of carbon monoxide to potentially endanger lives. A timely coffee break was the difference between life and death for one worker after a machine exploded at a rubber factory in Manchester, a court has heard. A recycling company has been fined £40,000 after an arson attack exposed unsafe storage practices at a factory near York. A steel company which failed to remove flammable gas from a chimney before it carried out "hot repairs", causing an explosion which almost seriously injured nearby workers, has been fined £10,000.
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