Injury Claims by Employees

1. How many personal injury compensation claims made by employees since January 2010 are currently ongoing (ie. Have not yet been settled with a payment or dismissed).

2. Please provide the total amount that has been claimed in each case.

3. Please provide a brief outline of the alleged circumstances of each case, with as much specific detail as possible without identifying the claimant.

4. In each case, please give the job title of each claimant. In cases where the job title might identify the claimant (eg. Chief Constable), please provide a generic job title (eg. Police Officer/Back office staff).

In accordance with section 1(1) (b) of the Act our response is provided below;

1. - 17
2. This information is not recorded. The usual format is - I am claiming damages, the amount is rarely if ever specified.
3. and 4
i. Help Desk Officer - Assaulted facial injury
ii. Police Officer trodden on by horse foot injury
iii Police Officer tripped carrying objects ankle injury.
iv. Police officer twisted knee carrying kit in confined space.
v. Police Staff slipped on ice in car park back and wrist injury.
vi. Police officer bitten on leg by dog.
vii Special Constable fractured foot exiting vehicle in pursuit
viii Police Officer fractured wrist training incident
ix Police officer - back injury exiting suspect premises.
x. Police Staff training injury back injury
xi. Police Officer - Training injury wrist injury
xii Police Staff - fell off bike leg and wrist injury
xiii Police staff knee injury - chair collapsed
xiv Police Officer throat injury - exposed to noxious fumes.
xv Police Officer training injury twisted ankle
xvi Police officer - Achilles injury forcing door
xvii Police Officer - back injury escorting suspect.