Baggage handler left with brain damage after conveyer belt accident | UK News [Video]

A baggage handler was left with brain damage after her scarf got caught in machinery and she was dragged along a conveyor belt at Heathrow Airport.

Jasbir Sahota, 52, who had worked at the airport for 30 years, was unloading luggage from a Loganair flight from Dundee to London on February 14 when the incident happened.

She suffered serious injuries, including brain damage, and is now permanently disabled.

Her family is now calling on her employers, global aviation services company Menzies, to cover the costs of the specialist care she needs.

Speaking to The Telegraph, her children Nina Haer and Harman Sahota and brother-in-law Satti Heir accused the firm of ‘treating her like a number rather than a valued employee’ and say they are now taking legal action.

Lawyers have launched a case in an effort to force Menzies to pay the estimated £300,000 needed to transfer Jasbir from Hillingdon Hospital to Wellington Hospital, a private facility offering more …