Indesit pays out £12,000 compensation for manual handling injury

Kitchen appliance manufacturer Indesit has paid £12,000 in compensation to a factory worker injured at the firm’s factory in Denbighshire, North Wales.

Richard Williams worked as an operator at the Indesit factory, and had been employed there for around 34 years.

On the day of his accident, Williams was attempting to manually pull down a metal panel to secure it in place on a washing machine but the panel didn’t move because it hadn’t been positioned correctly. As a... (103 more words)

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