Waste management provider Veolia Environmental Services has been fined after an agency worker was seriously burned by hot ash at an incineration depot in Deptford.
The employee sustained 17 per cent burns to his body whilst cleaning ash from a filtration hopper at a Veolia plant on Landman …
Seven construction workers were lucky to survive when more than 250 tonnes of wet concrete collapsed at Liverpool John Moores University, a court has been told.
Two companies have been fined a total of £100,000 over the incident, which occurred during the construction of an atrium for a new A…
Two companies have been fined following separate incidents at a Derbyshire lead smelting works.
Both incidents happened at HJ Enthoven Ltd in South Darley, near Matlock. The first happened on 19 August 2009 when an employee suffered severe burns following an explosion at the site.
The 43-year-…
A firm specialising in diesel fuel injection has been fined after a worker was set on fire at its Derbyshire premises.
The 23-year-old apprentice mechanic had been with Swadlincote Diesel Fuel Injection Services Ltd. for 18 months. On 16 March 2009, he and another employee were burning rubbish in …
Fras Contractors Limited and its managing director have been prosecuted for safety failings after a worker received an electric shock from a live junction box during poorly planned maintenance work in London. In addition, the juction box was accessed by placing a ladder on storage boxes beneath i…
Two companies have been fined after a demolition worker was engulfed
in flames when he cut through a live 11,000 volt cable at an electricity
substation in Worcester.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) prosecuted Birmingham firm DSM Demolition Ltd. and Halesowen-based Gould Singleton Architect…
An employee of an Oxfordshire-based engineering company sustained life-threatening burns after striking a high voltage electric cable during construction work on the new Crossrail railway.
Fugro Engineering Services Ltd was appointed principal contractor to deliver a series of ground investigatio…
The Managing Director of a St Helens gas supply firm has appeared in court after he and an employee suffered multiple burns in an explosion.
John Webster was prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) after he and another worker received burns to their faces, hands and legs at North West Ga…
Two workers narrowly avoided being killed or seriously injured when flames up to three metres in length shot from a leaking gas pipe during poorly planned and executed repair work.
The incident at Tata Steel's Scunthorpe Steelworks, on Brigg Road, Scunthorpe, resulted in minor facial burns for one o…
A Staffordshire-based aluminium casting company has been prosecuted after a man was burned by molten metal at its Worcester factory.
Asim Qureshi, 41, from Worcester, was operating a die cast machine at JVM Castings Ltd's premises in Droitwich Road, when molten metal sprayed from the back of the …
Two security guards suffered serious facial burns after an explosion at the Welbeck Colliery site at Meden Vale on 31 December.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is investigating the incident along with police and the fire service as the source of the explosion at an electrical sub station at th…
An explosion at Shanghai's Riteng Computer Accessory Company factory has left 61 workers injured, 23 of whom have been hospitalised with burns.
The accident occurred on Saturday afternoon, with the factory in the middle of a trial production run of aluminium back panels for Apple's iPad 2 tablet.
A construction company has been prosecuted for safety failings after a young worker was left permanently scarred when he struck an underground cable during digging work.
Richard Baisley, 26, of Scunthorpe, received severe burns to his hands, arms, face and chest when he drilled through concrete a…
Amber Composites Ltd. has been fined after a worker suffered severe hand and arm injuries.
A 52-year-old production operative from Heanor, Derbyshire, suffered fractures in two fingers, a twisted knuckle and burns to his forearms after his hands became trapped in a pre-preg machine, a large piece…
Three people have suffered serious burns after a gas cylinder exploded at the Manchester Food and Drink Festival.
The blast happened shortly before 21:00 BST on Monday during a cookery demonstration at a stall in Albert Square by Manchester Town Hall.
A foundry in Stoke-on-Trent has been fined after a man was left with serious injuries after being burned by molten metal.
Copper Alloys Ltd. was prosecuted after the 28-year-old worker suffered severe burns to his left arm and upper legs when he fell into an unfenced pit, which housed a mould contai…
A worker sustained serious burns in an electrical explosion after a North London company failed to carry out basic Health and Safety checks.
On the 30th April 2010, the injured man was working on a construction site at Leonard Street, Islington, when the electrical blast occurred. City of London …
A Liverpool boss has appeared in court after two of his employees suffered facial burns in a flash fire at the city's ferry terminal.
One of the workers, from New Ferry in Wirral, received severe burns to his face and hands, needed three months off work to recover, and required treatment to remove d…
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE), is investigating after a teenage boy was badly burned on a farm in Egremont.
Police said the 15-year-old boy was doing odd jobs at a farm when the incident happened on Monday night.
It is reported that the boy had burn injuries to his lower body and had been u…
An explosion early on Wednesday at a small refinery in Argentina killed one worker and left another with severe burns; local officials ordered Brazil's state-run oil company Petrobras to shut down the facility, pending investigation.