Former worker at Heston Blumenthal restaurant says injury caused by tasks such as bagging sweets

A former pastry chef at Heston Blumenthal’s Fat Duck restaurant has claimed she was left with crippling repetitive strain injury from placing sweets into bags using tweezers and hand-making chocolate playing cards and about 550 whisky wine gums a day, court documents show.

Sharon Anderson, 30, who worked at the three Michelin-starred restaurant in Bray, Berks, between 2014 and 2015, claims she is now plagued by constant wrist pain, and is suing for £200,000 damages.

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