Rehabilitation case studies
Includes case studies of workplace injuries in food and drink manufacturing, with insights into causes, impact, and safety improvements.
- Summary of case studies
- Spine injuries and concussion resulting from slip and fall from back of lorry
- Severe post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) following severe burns to hands trapped in machine
- Knee injury following 7.7m fall from height through trap door
- Knee injury following slip on wet floor
- Knee injury following trip over waste material on floor
- Lower back injury following slip/trip on uneven tile
- Groin injury (hernia) while moving heavy machinery
- Amputation of right arm and leg resulting from serious road accident
- Back pain caused by slipped discs
- Acute knee pain and associated disability affecting mobility and car driving
- Recovery from heart attack
- Rehabilitation from type 2 diabetes
- Low back injury caused by lifting, exacerbated by a trip
- Back pain caused by lifting
- Back pain resulting in long-term absence (30 weeks)
- Lower back pain in ‘shunter’ driver
- Back injury caused by lifting trays from a machine