A North Devon farming business has been prosecuted for safety failings after a worker fractured his skull falling from the prong of a forklift truck at an animal feed mill.
Richard Robinson, 64, from Pyworthy, near Holsworthy, was attempting to crush recycled material when the fall occurred a…
A worker at a holiday park suffered serious injuries when a trench he was working in collapsed on top of him.
Grzegorz Waluszkowski, 40, was helping to lay a drainage pipe at the park on Lady's Mile Farm, Exeter Road, Dawlish on 23 July 2010, when the wall of the two metre deep trench caved in. He…
A digger driver has been hurt at the site of a construction project in Plymouth, Devon.
Emergency services at currently at Thorn Park off Mannamead Road where building work was being done at a private house.
A section of Victoria Street in Paignton was cordoned off this morning after concrete rendering fell from the front of a shop.
Firefighters arrived on the scene at about 8am, they cordoned off the area and then left the incident in the care of builders.
A visiting worker suffered severe leg injuries when he was hit by a reversing telehandler vehicle at a waste transfer site near Exeter.
Andrew Grist, of Newton Abbot, suffered a detached calf muscle, a near severed toe and broken bones in his foot and was off work for six months after the inciden…
Mike Wye and Associates Ltd. of The Strand, Barnstaple, has been fined a total of £3,500 with £588 costs after a guilty plea to three contraventions of the Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) reports that running water was provided at the …
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