£30,000 damages for eye injury

A council worker who suffered permanent damage to his eye in a workplace accident has received £30,000 in compensation. He needed surgery after an industrial pressure hose hit him in his right eye, splitting his eye ball and causing him to suffer a detached iris. He was asked to look at the pressure hose. Unknown to him the hose section of the machine was switched on so when he turned on the machine’s pump the hose flicked up and hit him. The hose was later found to be defective.