Awards and settlements

Six-figure settlement for amputated finger and thumb

A man who had a finger and thumb amputated following a workplace accident has received a six-figure settlement. He was operating a rolling machine when a site worker around eight feet away started using an angle grinder to remove strips of metal from a door. When sparks from the angle grinder started reaching him and pieces of metal hit him in the face, he became distracted and as a result, his right hand was pulled into the rolling machine he was using up to the wrist.