£270,000 damages for builder hurt in Heathrow fall
01.06.09
A builder who survived a 120ft fall from the roof of Heathrow's Terminal 5 whilst it was being built has been awarded £270,000 in compensation, the Evening Standard reports.
Parminder Singh, 24, and a fellow worker plummeted to the ground after a girder holding his work cradle snapped in August 2005. Mr Singh suffered serious back, leg and head injuries but civil engineer Matthew Gilbert, 27, (the other person who fell) died.
Mr Singh was living with his family in Slough at the time of the accident but now lives in Melbourne and is retraining to be an IT worker. His four-year fight for personal injury compensation was delayed when the Home Office refused him re-entry to the UK after convalescing in India because his visa had lapsed.
Doctors credited the martial arts expert's survival to his high fitness level. The collapse may have been caused by faulty bolts on a metal support which the men were attempting to fit.
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