Heathrow worker left brain damaged after being sucked into baggage machine
A family is fighting their mother's employer for financial help and specialist care after she was left badly injured at Heathrow Airport.
A Heathrow Airport baggage handler who has devoted her working life to the airport now needs specialist care following a serious incident while handling bags at the airport and her family have taken legal action against her employer.
Jasbir Sahota, 52, suffered serious injuries after her scarf became caught in conveyer belt machinery on Valentine's Day 2024. The worker was unloading luggage from a Loganair flight from Dundee to London when the incident happened.
The family's world has fallen apart after she is suffering from disabling physical injuries and brain damage with the global aviation services company Menzies not keeping to their word to help.
The attitude from the firm has made Mrs Sahota's family accuse them of "treating her like a number rather than a valued employee" and not giving financial help to obtain specialise care that she desperately needs.
Mrs Sahota’s two children, Nina Haer and Harman Sahota, along with her brother-in-law Satti Heir, say they have had no alternative but to take legal action against the company.
Laywers are trying to force the multinational to pay for the cost of transferring Mrs Sahota from Hillingdon Hospital to the private Wellington Hospital, a provider of specialist complex care.
Speaking to the Telegraph, Satti says: "To stand a fighting chance of making any improvement she needs to be moved to the Wellington. Every day she stays at Hillingdon - and they are doing their best - it is a day we’re losing her and that’s awful."
The turnaround co-ordinator had worked at Heathrow Airport since she was 22 years old and "loved working there".
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When Mrs Sahota’s children were informed of what had happened by Menzies management that evening they were assured the company would do everything they could to help.
However, the family say the only practical assistance they've been offered was for taxis to be paid for them to visit her at Hillington Hospital.
Daughter Nina said: "Menzies said they would do all they could to help, but they’ve abandoned us and in fact have become completely obstructive.”"