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Award for fork lift truck accident

A man has been awarded £4,750 by his employers in an out of court settlement after suffering deep cuts through trapping his head in a freak forklift truck accident. He lacerated his ears after slipping in the forklift truck’s cab and squashing his head between its roof and mast.

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