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Explosion on Surrey industrial estate

Police and fire crews have been called to an industrial park in Surrey after reports of an explosion.

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Police and fire crews have been called to an industrial park in Surrey after reports of an explosion.

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Packaging company fine for fireball that caused life-threatening injuries in Cumbria

Innovia Films Ltd was prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) following an investigation into the cause of a fire at the plant on Station Road in Wigton on 13 September 2006.

Gordon Metcalf, 62 from Maryport, and another worker, were about to clean debris from a damaged fuse box when a …

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Ethanol train derailed

The derailment of train cars filled with ethanol resulted in explosions and a serious fire - 20 homes have been evacuated as a result.

No injuries were reported, but the fire was deemed too hazardous to fight and has been left to burn out.

Read this Reuters news article for further detail.

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Health and Safety News - 21 December 2010

Worker dies crushing aerosol canisters

Two companies and a manager have been fined a total of £440,000 after a worker suffered 90 per cent burns and died, when the aerosol canisters he was crushing caught fire.

Worker loses fingers in accident

Komatsu UK Ltd Birtley has been fined after an employee…

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Global working at height news

Dunedin's Forsyth Barr Stadium - New Zealand

Three workers from England and one from Scotland each held the highest level three certification in their trade, meaning they were experts in the climbing, lifting and rescue techniques. They went to Dunedin, New Zealand to work for Avalon, a subcontracto…

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Health and Safety News - 16 November 2010

Cement company fined after worker set on fire

An international cement company has been prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) after a worker was set alight in an explosion.

An investigation by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) found that Lafarge Cement UK Plc of Granite Way, S…

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Health and Safety News - 30 September 2010

£30k fines after Salford worker killed by digger bucket

Fines totalling £30,000 have been issued following the death of a Salford worker, who was struck by the excavator bucket on a digger. John Cain, 36, was working on a project to demolish the Albert Park Inn on Great Clowes Street in Salford…

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Health and Safety News - 3 August 2010

300 evacuated after bakery blaze

A fire at Warburtons Bakery in Bolton resulted in 300 employees being evacuated. Sixty firefighters and 10 pumps attended the scene.

Automotive parts firm fined £30,000

Michael Brewer was trying to repair a fully automated industrial robot for Dura Automotive Body …

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Health and Safety News - 24 May 2010

Worker killed in factory fall

A man has become the eighth worker to die this year at a Chinese electronics factory, which makes iPhones and iPads, after he was killed in a fall.

Missing rivet may have caused crash

The Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) said a small rivet head that k…

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Health and Safety News - 11 May 2010

Companies and director fined after worker is paralysed

Two companies and a managing director have been fined a total of £170,000 after a worker fell more than nine metres, leaving him paralysed from the chest down. Director Richard Mark Berwick was fined £40,000 and ordered to pay costs of £5,000…

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