A Salford firm has been fined £50,000 over the death of a canal boat owner at a dry dock on the Bridgewater Canal.
Richard Ferris - a father of four and grandfather of nine - suffered critical injuries after he slipped on a plank and fell head first to the concrete floor below at The Boatyard …
A Redhill-based construction company has been ordered to pay £210,000 in fines and costs after an employee died following an explosion on a construction site in central London. The explosion occurred following damage to an 11,000 volt live cable within an excavation.
Ioan Boboc, 22, a constr…
The owners of a West Yorkshire care home have been told to pay £183,000 in fines and costs after a frail 93 year-old widow died because established safety measures were neglected.
Mrs Elsie Beals asphyxiated after becoming trapped in the gap between her mattress and incorrectly-fitted bed sa…
A Bradford firm has been ordered to pay £140,000 in fines and costs
after admitting safety failures that led to the death of a 61 year-old
worker who was crushed beneath an unsecured racking system.
Jim Murphy died from head injuries when the 'A' frame metal racking unit, weighing more than …
Two nursing home owners have been fined after an elderly resident died following a fall from a hoist.
Annie Bradley, 78, who was known as Vera, was being transported in a sling from her bed to a specialist chair at Harley House Nursing Home on Elms Road in Leicester on 19 July 2008. During the …
Two companies have been fined after a man was killed when he drove a specialist machine into an unprotected pit in a factory floor.
Martin McMenemy, 52, of Grimsby, was working for O. Turner Insulation Ltd., also of Grimsby, on the construction of a food processing plant in Ratby Lane, Leices…
Global steel company Tata was fined £500,000 for serious safety breaches today after a worker died when he fell into a channel carrying slag waste at 1,500 degrees Celsius when covers had been removed for maintenance and not replaced.
Kevin Downey, 49, was working on a night shift on the Num…
A self-employed builder has been fined £75,000 and ordered to undertake community service after work he carried out on an elderly couple's home resulted in their death from carbon monoxide poisoning.
Mohammed Jamil had been contracted to carry out work on the garage roof at the home of husba…
A national healthcare provider has been fined £100,000 after an elderly patient died at a private hospital in High Wycombe.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) prosecuted BMI Healthcare Limited for safety failings that led to the death of Michael Walsh, 85, from Beaconsfield, in Buckinghamshir…
UK Coal and global machinery supplier Joy Mining Ltd. were ordered to pay a total of £568,000 in fines and costs for serious breaches of safety that led to the death of West Yorkshire pit worker Ian Cameron.
On 18 July, UK Coal Ltd., of Harworth, Nottinghamshire, and Joy Mining Machinery …
A Northumberland firm and two of its directors have been sentenced for safety failings after a teenage worker died following a fall from a barn roof.
Jamie Lee Duddin, 18, of Corbridge, and another Scotts of Whittington Ltd. employee were carrying out repairs to the roof lights of the barn …
A nursing home failed to ensure the safety of an elderly, blind, wheelchair-bound resident who died after falling down a flight of stairs.
Patrick Foale, 75, lived at the Redmount Nursing Home in Buckfastleigh, Devon, when the incident happened on 1 November 2010.
Mr. Foale, who was diabetic, …
An Essex granite manufacturer has been sentenced for safety failings
after a worker was crushed to death by stone slabs weighing three
tonnes.
Martin Rice, 57, was unloading a delivery of manufactured stone and placing it on storage A-frames in a warehouse when the incident occurred at The …
Bassetlaw District Council has been fined after a member of the public was killed by a reversing bin lorry.
Derrick Baines, 76, of Mellish Road, Langold, Nottinghamshire, was returning home from the shops on his mobility scooter when he was struck by the lorry on 10 July 2008.
On 3 July, the H…
Two construction companies have been fined a total of £301,000 after a worker fell 22 metres to his death in Manchester.
Christopher Heaton, from St Helens, was working on the Leftbank riverside apartments in Manchester city centre - part of the Spinningfields development - when he was dragged…
A carpenter died when a large slab of concrete fell on him during construction of a new accommodation block at Bath University.
Philip Hames, of Weston-super-Mare, was working for Creagh Concrete Products on the University’s Claverton Down Campus when he adjusted a metal prop without realising …
Recycling company SITA UK Ltd. has been fined £200,000 after a 21-year-old employee died from head injuries at its paper baling site in Tipton.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) prosecuted the firm after Mark Bate, of Tipton, West Midlands, was killed instantly when the arm of a J…
A firm, its director and a supervisor have been sentenced for safety
failings after a worker died from injuries sustained in a fall from
scaffolding at a construction site in East Sussex.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) prosecuted Apex Scaffolding (Sussex) Ltd., its director, Michael Wa…
A Grimsby haulage company has been sentenced for safety failings after a
worker was killed when a row of steel coils 'collapsed like dominos'
trapping him under their five-tonne weight.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) prosecuted ABC (Grimsby) Ltd. after Alan Burr, a warehouseman and for…
A retail marketing company has been ordered to pay £118,500 in fines
and costs for serious safety failings after a worker at its Wakefield
printing site was crushed to death.
Bezier Ltd., which employs some 700 people across nine UK sites, failed to heed warnings that could have saved the li…