£32,000 damages for loss of eye

A plasterer who lost sight in one eye following an accident at work has secured £32,000 damages. He was a plasterer in the council’s maintenance services department. He was working outside a house shovelling small stones used below the cement for use on the hallway floor. There was a cement mixer outside which was raised on a stand. He decided to sweep the stones into a pile on the floor next to the mixer.