| Tools likely to cause a vibration injury include |
- Percussive tools eg riveting, caulking, fettling and swaging
- Grinders including pedestal and hand-held
- Pneumatic drills and hammers
- Chainsaws and other garden machinery
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Symptoms include |
- Tingling sensation
- Numbness/whiteness of parts of the fingers
- Loss of grip strength
- Reduced dexterity
- Aching in the wrists and muscles of the forearm
- Whiteness in the fingers when cold
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| Prolonged exposure to the cold, smoking and stress can trigger attacks, therefore if you believe that you have a claim, stop whatever activities are causing the pain and consult your doctor. VWF is treatable, but even short delays can put the recovery back by months or even years. |
| Successful claim requirements |
- The sufferer must be suffering from a vibration injury caused after 1971
- The injury was caused by the employment
- The employer knew or ought to have known the risk from the work performed
- The employer failed in their duty to take care of the employee by preventing or reducing the exposure
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| Who is most at risk? |
| Regular users of hand-held power tools such as percussive tools, grinders, pneumatic drills and hammers, chainsaws and other garden machinery. |
- Miners
- Lumberjacks
- Grinders
- Car mechanics
- Road workers
- Welders
- Woodworkers
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If you are not sure, we can still advise you. We are here to help and we offer a no-win, no-fee service. |
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