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Personal injury solicitors have secured tinnitus compensation for a former warehouse employee who developed the industrial deafness condition after being exposed to excessive noise in the workplace.
The 46-year-old father-of-seven now suffers from the condition to such an extent that he will now need hearing aids for the rest of his life. Previous to the condition making his job untenable, the man had worked for his employer for eight years.
The tinnitus compensation claimant told the The Manchester Evening News, "The noise was constant, mainly from a battery operated 'pump truck' which I operated to lift pallets from the back of trucks.
"The pump truck had hard nylon wheels and had to run over a kind of metal bridge between the warehouse floor and the rear of the lorry.
"There was additional noise from things like metal carrying cages which rattled along and the cumulative effect was literally deafening.
"Despite this, we were given no form of ear protection until we suddenly got given some in the summer of 2007."
During the latter part of 2008 the 46-year-old first became aware of the symptoms of the hearing condition; he increasingly found that he was asking people to repeat what they had just said and needed to turn the television up to full volume in order to be able to hear.
His former employer admitted liability for the claim and agreed to settle for £12,000.