Tasks alleged to have caused injury in WRULD Claims heard in Courts in England, Scotland and Wales
Manual handling
| Task | Injury | Claimant (Case) |
|---|---|---|
| Dipping crockery | Tenosynovitis | Foulkes (Foulkes - v - John Tams Ltd) |
| Erecting, maintaining and repairing transmission lines and poles | Lateral Epicondylitis | Moffitt (Moffitt - v - Norweb plc) |
| Handling / Carrying bags of flour | Lateral Epicondylitis | Atkinson (Atkinson & Crowston - v - Dalgety) |
| Lateral Epicondylitis | Crowston (Atkinson & Crowston - v - Dalgety) | |
| Handling / Carrying folders | Lateral Epicondylitis | Tingey (Tingey - v - DLA) |
| Handling / Carrying: briefcases | De Quervain's Syndrome | Howe (Howe - v - RTZ Services Ltd) |
| Handling / Carrying: castings | Carpal Tunnel Syndrome | Stimpson (Stimpson - v - Beevor Castings) |
| Handling / Carrying: children, buckets & toys | De Quervain's Syndrome | Webster (Webster - v - Trafford MBC) |
| Handling / Filling: plastic bags of filler | Tenosynovitis, De Quervain's Syndrome | Beckett (Beckett - v - Ilford Ltd) |
| Handling / Inspecting steel stock | Lateral Epicondylitis | Lewis (Lewis - v - Saxon Steels Ltd) |
| Handling / Inspecting: freezers | Tenosynovitis | Weatherall (Weatherall - v - Smart and Brown Engineering Ltd) |
| Handling / Inspecting: insulators | De Quervain's Syndrome | Fox (Fox - v - Champion Sparking Plugs Co Ltd) |
| Handling / Inspecting: motors | De Quervain's Syndrome, Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, Osteoarthritis | Mitchell (Mitchell - v - Atco Ltd) |
| Handling / Inspecting: pig carcasses | Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, Cervical & Lumbar Spondylosis | Bellis (Bellis - v - James Strange & Co Ltd) |
| Thumb Injury, Unspecified | Wilebore (Wilebore - v - St Edmundsbury Borough Council) | |
| Handling a box of sausages | Wrist Injury, Unspecified | Oliver (Oliver - v - Tesco Stores Ltd) |
| Handling a jig | Carpal Tunnel Syndrome | Rose (Rose - v - Smiths Industries Ltd) |
| Handling a teapot | Medial Epicondylitis | Osarak (Osarak - v - Hawker Siddeley Water Engineering Ltd) |
| Handling axle stands | Shoulder Injury, Unspecified | Brown (Brown - v - Rover Group) |
| Handling buckets of water | Medial Epicondylitis | Shaughnessey (Shaughnessey -v- Bolton Council) |
| Handling cardboard boxes | Tenosynovitis | Middleditch (Middleditch - v - Thames Case Ltd) |
| Tenosynovitis | Wyeth (Wyeth - v - Thames Case Ltd) | |
| Handling coil cylinders | Tenosynovitis | Banton (Banton - v - Delco Products Overseas Corporation) |
| Handling coils | De Quervain's Syndrome | Sheldon (Sheldon - v - Thorn Lighting (Fittings) Ltd) |
| Handling crockery moulds | Medial Epicondylitis | Bottomer (Willis et al - v - Royal Doulton (UK) Limited) |
| Tenosynovitis | Short (Willis et al - v - Royal Doulton (UK) Limited) | |
| Medial Epicondylitis | Willis (Willis et al - v - Royal Doulton (UK) Limited) | |
| Tenosynovitis, Medial Epicondylitis | Wright (Willis et al - v - Royal Doulton (UK) Limited) | |
| Handling drinking flasks | De Quervain's Syndrome | Hamilton (Hamilton & Pyper - v - Thermos Limited) |
| Tenosynovitis | Pyper (Hamilton & Pyper - v - Thermos Limited) | |
| Handling electronic coils | Tenosynovitis | Edwards (Edwards - v - Beck Electronics Ltd) |
| Handling fluorescent light tubes | Tenosynovitis | Hobin (Hobin - v - Osram GEC Ltd) |
| Handling knives | Tenosynovitis, Lateral & Medial Epicondylitis | Ferraris (Ping et al - v - Esselte Letraset Ltd) |
| Handling large bottles of water | Wrist Ligament Strain | Charles (Charles -v- Eden Springs Water Company) |
| Handling laundry | De Quervain's Syndrome | Bates (Bates - v - Fenland Laundries Ltd) |
| Handling metal tubes | Tendonitis | Binch (Binch - v - Dunlop Cox Ltd) |
| Handling packing cases | Tenosynovitis | Clarkson (Clarkson - v - Breco Furniture Products) |
| Handling road traffic cones | Rupture of tendon | Warlow (Warlow -v- Compass Group UK & Ireland Ltd) |
| Handling scenery | Tenosynovitis, Rotator Cuff Syndrome | Wickens (Wickens - v - Red Shift Theatre Company) |
| Handling sheets of card | De Quervain's Syndrome, Medial Epicondylitis | Shaw (Shaw - v - Bowater Containers North East Ltd) |
| Handling sheets of metal | Lateral Epicondylitis | Montgomery (Montgomery - v - British Leyland) |
| Handling steel blanks | Carpal Tunnel Syndrome | O'Callaghan (O'Callaghan - v - British Steel plc) |
| Handling wires | De Quervain's Syndrome | Castro (Wells) (Castro - v - British Syphon Industries) |
| Repetitive Strain Injury | Land (Land (Bradley) - v - Volex Group plc) | |
| Carpal Tunnel Syndrome | Miles (Miles - v - Avon Industrial Polymers Ltd) | |
| Loading cardboard tubes | Lateral Epicondylitis | Simpson (Simpson - v - Scott Ltd) |
| Loading gears | De Quervain's Syndrome | Inskip (Inskip - v - Vauxhall Motors Ltd) |
| Loading paper | Repetitive Strain Injury | Hungerford (Hungerford - v - Redwood Burn Ltd) |
| Loading rubber components | De Quervain's Syndrome | Maguire (Maguire - v - Leyland & Birmingham Rubber Co Ltd) |
| Making roofing panels | Medial Epicondylitis | Bacon (Bacon - v - Eternit (UK) Ltd) |
| Poultry processing: lifting / moving boxes | Carpal Tunnel Syndrome | Lucken (Mountenay (Hazzard) & others - v - Bernard Matthews plc) |
| Pushing a tea trolley | Lateral Epicondylitis | Pollard (Pollard - v - British Petroleum) |
| Shelf stacking | Medial Epicondylitis | Armatage (Armatage - v - J Sainsbury plc) |
| Stripping cardboard from blocks of frozen fish | Lateral Epicondylitis | Shrimpling (Shrimpling - v - Findus UK Ltd) |
Last updated: 26/03/2014