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Eric Nartey outside the High Court in London, where he was awarded \u00a350,000 <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

A nurse who claims he has been left disabled for life after a chair collapsed under him at work has been given a \u00a3500,000 payout by the NHS<\/a>.  <\/p>\n

Eric Nartey was working a night shift at St Bernard’s Hospital in Ealing in March 2013 when he sat down on a ‘defective’ chair, which collapsed beneath him.<\/p>\n

The 40-year-old suffered a relatively minor injury to the base of his spine and his employers, West London<\/a> Mental Health NHS Trust, admitted liability for the accident.<\/p>\n

But Mr Nartey said he subsequently developed chronic pain syndrome, meaning he cannot work or walk more than 20 metres and will need looking after for life.<\/p>\n

He sued his former bosses at Central London County Court and after a two-day hearing the NHS Trust agreed to pay him \u00a3500,000. <\/p>\n

During the trial, he dramatically collapsed in front of the judge in court.<\/p>\n

Lawyers for the NHS had claimed he was exaggerating his condition and accused him of ‘malingering,’ but Mr Nartey insisted he was telling the truth.<\/p>\n

Mr Nartey told Judge Heather Baucher he was sitting at the nursing station on a hydraulic chair with an adjustable seat when ‘the seat of the chair suddenly dropped to the lowest setting’.<\/p>\n

He told the judge: ‘The chair sort of collapsed. It dropped down. I panicked and tried to grab onto a desk but my hand slid off it and I ended up landing on my sacral area. I slid off the chair halfway down.’<\/p>\n

He said the pain became ‘unbearable’ and he went home early from work. The next day, he visited his GP and was prescribed painkillers.<\/p>\n

But he said his symptoms gradually became worse, with pain and numbness spreading from his lower back into his legs.<\/p>\n

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Mr Nartey was working a night shift at St Bernard’s Hospital in Ealing in March 2013 when he sat down on a ‘defective’ chair, which collapsed beneath him<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

He now has to use a wheeled walking frame and can no longer do his job, he told the court.<\/p>\n

David Callow, for West London Mental Health NHS Trust, admitted Mr Nartey’s account of the accident.<\/p>\n

He saidL ‘The chair had a defect which caused it to give way. Mr Nartey fell to the floor. Liability is admitted. It is admitted that Mr Nartey likely suffered some loss as a result of the fall.’<\/p>\n

Mr Nartey’s barrister, Nicholas Braslavsky QC, said the nurse had been left suffering with chronic pain syndrome.<\/p>\n

‘We say this is an unusual but well-recognised serious outcome from a relatively modest incident,’ he told the judge.<\/p>\n

Prior to the accident, Mr Nartey was a hard-working man, said the QC, having only taken a single day off from his pre-nursing job as a postman after suffering a car accident.<\/p>\n

On the first day of the trial Mr Nartey collapsed backwards and rolled down a short flight of steps when his legs gave way as he tried to rise from the witness box.<\/p>\n

NHS lawyers agreed to pay him \u00a3500,000 to settle his claim, cutting short the trial which had been set to last five days.<\/p>\n

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