VWF, finger loss and no win, no fee claims

Our fingers are so vital to the majority of the tasks we perform each day that anyone who suffers from the debilitating symptoms of Vibration White Finger will find their ability to comfortably carry out basic manual tasks greatly impaired.

Workers in construction and mining industries who use vibrating machinery in cold temperatures are most at risk of developing the most serious symptoms of Vibration White Finger. In extreme cases workers who work under these severe conditions may lose their fingers. For these workers, the reasons for contacting a no win, no fee solicitor are pressing.

While industrial injury compensation cannot truly compensate for the loss of a finger or fingers, it at least offers some official recognition of the pain, injury and trauma the VWF sufferer experiences.

Amounts of compensation for Vibration White Finger vary, but in cases where a worker has lost a finger, no win, no fee solicitors should be able to secure compensation claim awards of around £20,000 for their affected clients.

Fortunately, there is legislation designed to protect workers from the risk of Vibration White Finger. The Control of Vibration at Work Regulations (2005) offers protection to workers in the form of the Physical Agents Vibration Directive 2002/44/EC of 25th June 2002. This EC directive has the stated goal of outlining limits for exposure to vibration and guides for intervention to reduce the risk to affected workers.

Aside from the more commonly known symptoms such as pins and needles, tingling, whiteness of the fingers and numbness, if you work in a high-vibration environment and are experiencing any of the following symptoms, it may indicate that you are at risk of, or are already, developing VWF:

• Sleeplessness
• Tiredness
• Headaches
• Shaky sensations
• Back and muscular disorders

Claiming Vibration White Finger compensation
If you have developed VWF as a result of exposure to vibration in your workplace, you may well be entitled to claim industrial illness compensation.

The personal injury solicitors on YouClaim's experienced panel have had many years of success in resolving compensation claims of this type.

Claiming with us is both completely risk-free and completely cost-free. We guarantee that at no stage in the claims process will you have to pay us, or anyone else, a single penny in costs or fees.

We also guarantee that, in the event of your compensation award, you will get to keep 100% of all money awarded to you, as we never take a cut.

If you wish to make your VWF claim today, call us on 0800 10 757 95.

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