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£2,500 in damages for hearing loss

A man has won £2,500 in damages after suffering hearing loss as a result of exposure to excessive noise in the workplace. He worked for a car manufacturer, initially as an apprentice upholsterer. He went on to work as a forklift driver, a machinist and then a foreman. The environment in which he worked was very noisy, so he had to shout in order to communicate with his colleagues.

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