A 55-year-old sales executive has received £27,000 in damages, more than four years after he permanently injured his leg in an accident at work.
Quentin Martin from Ruislip has been told he will never fully recover from the broken leg injury he suffered while at work. The accident occurred in August 2007 when he slipped on a clear sheet of plastic that had been left on the floor of the firm where he worked.
Although he knew that his colleagues had been putting window stickers up on some of the glass partitions in the office earlier that day, Mr Martin said he did not know that the plastic backing sheets had been left lying on the floor. He added that the sheets were completely transparent and were barely visible.
Following the accident at his work place, Mr Martin was taken to Wrexham Park Hospital by ambulance and given an x-ray which confirmed the fracture to his femur. After undergoing surgery to have a metal pin inserted into his leg to help heal the bone, he was discharged and signed off work for the next five months.
Three years later, Mr Martin was again admitted to hospital in September 2010 because his broken leg wasn’t healing properly. While in hospital, he underwent surgery to have the original metal pin removed and replaced.
Although Mr Martin has now returned to his job he still uses a walking stick and feels pain when walking on uneven ground. Mr Martin, who also works as a part-time DJ, takes painkillers daily and has been told he will never make a full recovery from his injury.