£7,500 in compensation for broken ankle

A nuclear plant worker who raised health and safety concerns to bosses about a manual handling exercise and then went on to break her ankle as she moved heavy boxes has received £7,500 in compensation. She broke her right ankle after she was ordered to move heavy archive boxes down a flight of three narrow steps. She fell from the top step and was forced to take three months off work as a result. Her colleagues had warned bosses that the manual handling task was unsafe. Among their concerns were the fact that the steps were old and narrow and that there was no handrail. The claim was settled out of court.