A Liverpool rubber manufacturer has been fined for safety failings after an employee seriously injured his hand when it became trapped in machinery.
Robert Devonport was left with a severe burn to his left hand and a crush injury to his thumb as a result of the incident at Ley Rubber Ltd.'s…
Over the last few years, there has been a significant change in the standards businesses must conform to when providing first aid boxes for their workplace.
In June 2011, the BSI introduced BS-8599 British Standard for First Aid Kits, which gave business owners until the end of 2011 to change thei…
A Norwich scaffolding firm has been fined after a self-employed aircraft painter was injured after falling more than two metres when a wooden scaffold board broke.
The 37-year-old, from Basildon Essex, who does not wish to be named, was working on an aircraft at the Air Livery, Aviation Way, …
A recycling firm, which ignored warnings about safety at its plant in Warrington, has been sentenced after a worker was struck by a forklift truck.
The truck was carrying a large bale of crushed aluminium cans when it hit the 43-year-old man as he walked across the warehouse floor at the site on …
A Darlington contractor has been fined after a worker was left severely brain damaged following a fall from a house roof.
Mark Lambton, 50, from Darlington, was working for James Wilson, trading as J Wilson Home Improvements, when the incident happened on 2 July 2011.
Mr Wilson had secured wor…
A Skelmersdale firm which makes outdoor shelters has appeared in court after an employee lost parts of three fingers when his hand became trapped in a forklift truck.
PRF Engineering, which manufactures shelters for bikes and supermarket trolleys, was prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive…
A housing repair and maintenance company has been fined after a Nottingham worker suffered serious neck and back fractures falling 2.4 metres through a fragile roof.
The 49-year-old employee needed to wear a body and neck brace for three months after falling head first through an outhouse r…
A construction firm and a roofing company have been fined for their part in a fall at a Lincoln retail park.
Taylor Pearson Construction Limited was the principal contractor building a new retail unit at The Carlton Centre on Outer Circle Road. The company sub-contracted roof cladding work to R…
A Romsey brick-making firm has been prosecuted after one of its employees suffered crush injuries to his leg in a poorly-guarded machine.
Mr Nikoloz Demetrashvili, 42, was in hospital for three weeks with a multiple fracture of his right leg after the incident at Michelmersh Brick and Tile …
Outdoor advertising company Clear Channel UK Ltd. has been fined after an employee's hand was caught in a petrol-powered lawn mower in Bristol.
In a prosecution brought by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), Bristol Magistrates Court heard that the maintenance worker was working at a bil…
A Staffordshire environmental waste company has been fined after an employee was crushed by a reversing vehicle.
The 23-year-old man from Cannock was handpicking waste from a skip at Rugeley Environmental Waste Services Ltd. on 5 September 2011 when a skid steer loader reversed into him, pinnin…
A company which makes modular timber buildings has been fined after an
employee suffered multiple injuries falling from a canopy at a
Shropshire school.
RG Stones (Buildings) Ltd. had been contracted to replace the canopy between two temporary buildings at Lakelands School on Oswestry Road in…
Three companies were ordered to pay a total of £232,000 in fines and costs after two workers on an Exeter building site suffered severe injuries when the platform they were working on collapsed and fell four storeys down a lift shaft.
On 3 August, Exeter Crown Court heard that the men were w…
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 berth operator at an Essex Port has been fined £20,000 for safety failings after an employee had both legs amputated after they were crushed by a cargo container.
William James, 73, was working on Stanton Grove Limited's berth 47 within the Port of Tilbury when the incident occurred on 26 …
A construction and design company in Berkshire has been prosecuted for safety failings after a bricklayer was seriously injured when he fell three metres through a skylight opening in a flat roof.
The worker broke his pelvis and wrist in the fall at Holmsbury St. Mary, Surrey, on 18 November …
Dumfries and Galloway Council has been fined after a subcontractor suffered severe crush injuries when a tar tipper lorry reversed into a paver machine he was driving while carrying out road repairs.
The 20-year-old, who does not wish to be named, was one of two subcontractors working for Ham…
A beef supplier has been fined after a worker fractured his spine and heel bone after falling during dangerous work at height at a Lincoln abattoir.
The maintenance engineer has been told he may never fully recover from the injuries he sustained in the incident at Dovecote Park Ltd., Skelli…
On 27 July, a Surrey construction company was ordered to pay
£160,000 in fines and costs after a worker narrowly escaped death when
he was caught in a collapse of nine tonnes of steel and concrete.
Bola Akinola, 48, fell more than four metres when steelwork supporting concrete floor planks f…
