£181,000 in compensation for loss of toe

A labourer whose big toe had to be amputated after a steel beam was dropped onto his foot at work has received £181,000 in compensation. He was forced to give up working as a labourer. He had been tasked with lifting a steel beam onto a van using a forklift truck. As his colleague lifted the beam, he was standing alongside helping to stabilise the long piece of steel. But when the forklift truck reversed off a ramp, the beam fell off the forks and landed heavily onto his right foot.