A Brixham gas fitter has been fined after falsely claiming to be registered gas engineer and leaving work he carried out in a dangerous condition.
In a prosecution brought by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) (on 2 November), Torbay Magistrates heard that Sean Collins carried out work on …
An Essex manufacturing firm has been fined after a contractor suffered
multiple fractures to his skull, leg, back and wrist when he fell from
an unsecured platform.
The 34-year-old from Colchester, who does not wish to be named, was replacing a light fitting from a makeshift work platform der…
On 15 October, Truro Crown court heard that an elderly man with dementia was able
to wander into another resident's room at his nursing home and fall to
his death from a window.
Reginald Gibbings, 89, fell 3.6 metres from the room at Hillcrest House, Barbican Road, East Looe on 15 July 2008.
H…
A worker had his lower body crushed when a stack of bales, each
weighting a quarter of a tonne, collapsed on him as he sorted waste in a
processing shed in Somerset.
Aleksandras Fomenkouas, 40, who lived in Bridgwater at the time, suffered serious injuries in the incident on 8 September 2011 …
A worker unloading scaffold materials from a flatbed lorry was thrown
from the vehicle and hit by its load of boards and tubes when it
overturned a court was told (on 12 October).
Martin Sapec, 54, of Edwardsville, Treharris suffered a broken pelvis and ankle in the incident at Bryntirion, Mo…
A South Yorkshire firm has been ordered to pay £142,000 in fines and
costs for serious safety breaches after a worker died when he was
crushed by a one and a half tonne steel girder.
Steelworker John Mott, 47, who had worked in the steel industry since leaving school, received fatal injuries…
National Grid Gas PLC has been fined after gas leaked into a Halesowen home.
Engineers were replacing the gas supply to a property in Bromsgrove Road, Hunnington, when the leak occurred on 20 August 2010.
The existing supply was connected to a low pressure main on the opposite side of the road s…
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 Tyneside firm has been fined after a worker was soaked with a concentrated, corrosive chemical and suffered serious burns.
Michael Reid, 66, of North Shields, was employed as an electroplater at DMI (UK) Ltd. when the incident happened on 30 January 2011.
In a prosecution brought by the Health…
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…
A West Midlands company has been fined after a worker suffered severe head injuries in a pneumatic metal press.
Wayne Hill, a maintenance engineer at H&E Knowles (Lye) Limited, was repairing the press when it unexpectedly started working and crushed his head. He was trapped for around ten minut…
If
you are an employer, you have responsibilities under the Health and Safety at
Work etc. Act 1974 to protect your staff and the public from hazards.
Electric shocks can result in injury or even instant death which means it’s in your interest to take the necessary precautions to minimise the …
A Lincolnshire farmer and an agricultural machinery supplier have been fined after a young casual worker had three tendons in his right hand severed by a potato crusher.
The 25 year-old man, who does not wish to be named, had been working for farmer Timothy Dean, 55, at Waterloo Farm, Wilsfor…
A Merseyside firm has been sentenced after a worker received life-threatening injuries when he fell from scaffolding at a Croxteth sports centre.
The 43-year-old man from West Derby suffered a brain haemorrhage, fractured skull and collapsed lung in the incident at Croxteth Sports and Wellbei…
A worker lost a finger when it was crushed in machinery as safety procedures were ignored at a recycling centre in Wales.
GLJ Recycling Ltd. appeared before Caerphilly Magistrates Court in a prosecution brought by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) and were fined £6,000 and ordered to pay £5…
An Aberdeenshire haulage firm has been fined after a driver was severely injured when he was knocked to the ground and run over by a tractor unit of a Heavy Goods Vehicle.
Ian Mackie, 43, from Turriff, was one of a team of drivers who worked for R & J Milne Limited operating out of its haulag…
A Bridgend firm has been sentenced for safety failings after a teenage worker plunged nearly six metres through a fragile roof at a children's activity centre.
Joshua Harry, 18, from Swansea, escaped with severe bruising to his back following the incident at Cantref Adventure Farm, Brecon, on…
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 manufacturer of steel building materials has been fined for safety failings after an employee sustained a serious hand injury on a poorly guarded machine in Norfolk.
Antonio Pires, aged 63, from Watton, was operating a power press to form sheet metal at Worldwide Steels Limited, trading as …
A Hertfordshire concrete pumping company has been fined after members of the public and a police car were sprayed with concrete when a delivery pipe ruptured.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) prosecuted London Concrete Pumping Limited over poorly maintained equipment leading to the incid…