Facial injury award

A man has received £3,000 after he was injured whilst carrying out cabling work for a cable TV company. He was using a piece of equipment consisting of a reel onto which the cable was wound in order to pull cabling through some underground ducting. There was a kink in the cable on the reel so that the cable did not wind properly around it. As the pressure built up, the cable became taut and the metal end of the cable shot back into his face causing damage to his front teeth to the extent that one of them had to be extracted.