£6,500 damages for fractured foot

A factory worker who suffered a fractured foot has received £6,500 in compensation. He suffered two fractured metatarsals in his left foot and was off work for seven weeks. The machine operator had been trained to move the five foot long alloy bars from the floor to a machine by picking them up using a scissor clamp and swinging them into the machine. One of the bars dropped out of the clamp, breaking his foot.