Lawyer’s Safety Call over ‘Staggering’ Workplace Death Toll

A leading workplace injury and accident lawyer says the fight for improved safety standards at work can never end while tens of thousands of UK workers are still dying each year. The call came as the TUC published figures claiming that around 20,000 people were still dying annually in accidents at work or as a result of industrial illnesses such as mesothelioma, asbestosis or lung cancer. And Roger Maddocks, partner and expert in workplace injuries at the north east office of law firm Irwin Mitchell, said: “It is both staggering and frightening to think that more than 20,000 people in the