Blog posts : "prosecution"
Stone merchant fined after vehicle struck an overhead power cable
Fairhurst Stone Merchants Ltd. has been fined for safety breaches after a vehicle made contact with an uninsulated overhead electric power line.
The company, of Langcliffe Mill, Stainforth Road, Langcliffe, Settle, pleaded guilty to breaching Regulation 3 of the Electricity at Work Regulations 19…
Construction company fined half a million pounds for fatal demolition work
McGee Group Limited was fined £500,000 with £66,236.22 in costs for a breach of Regulation 22(1)(a) of the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2007, following the death of 33-year-old labourer Dainius Rupsys in April 2014.
Southwark Crown Court heard that Mr Rupsys from Lithuania w…
Derbyshire company fined after death of worker using fork lift truck
A Derbyshire-based company has been fined after the death of a 19-year-old worker, when a fork lift truck (FLT) overturned at the company’s site in Chinley.
Manchester Crown Court (Minshull Street) heard how, on 10 February 2015, Ben Pallier-Singleton was driving a FLT during night time hours d…
Glazing company fined £36,000 for dangerous work at height
Ideal Glazing (Euro) Ltd. has been fined £36,000 after carrying out work in the West End of London with no measures to prevent the workers falling eight metres and after dropping part of a window onto the public area below.
Westminster Magistrates’ Court heard the company carried out window inst…
Leicestershire construction firm fined after sacks of rubble thrown from building window
J A Ball Ltd. of Coalville was fined £13,000 with £1,182 costs after admitting breaching Regulation 4(1) of the Work at Height Regulations 2005.
Workers were spotted throwing sacks of rubble from a building project opposite a police station, police officers called the Health and Safety Executiv…
Chemical firm fined following explosion at Widnes plant
A chemical firm has been fined after a hydrogen explosion blew a vessel lid through a factory roof, leaving a worker with minor injuries.
Catalloy Ltd. was prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) following the incident at its plant on Moss Bank Road in Widnes on 25 November 2011. The …
London construction firm fined for dangerous basement excavation
London construction company Darma Limited has been fined after an unannounced inspection from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) found dangerous conditions on a basement excavation site.
The inspection of the site on Filmer Road in Fulham was carried out during a clampdown on poor safety con…
Two companies fined after worker loses left leg
A Tameside factory worker had to have part of his left leg amputated after he was struck by an 850kg metal frame being delivered to a plant in Glossop, a court has heard.
Two firms have been ordered to pay nearly £50,000 in fines and costs following an investigation into the incident on 5 January…
Suffolk building company fined for asbestos and work at height failings
LJW Cladding Ltd. has been fined after removing asbestos insulation board without a licence and failing to protect its workers from falls of up to four metres at a farm building in Waltham, Essex.
Workers were potentially exposed to dangerous asbestos fibres and only provided with baby wipes …
Suspended sentences for subcontractors after worker fatally crushed
Two subcontractors have been handed eight-month prison sentences, suspended for 18 months, after a worker was killed when part of a 33-tonne metal barge he was dismantling collapsed on top of him.
William Ward, 56, from Handsworth, Sheffield, sustained catastrophic crush injuries in the incident …
Leicester care home fined £100,000 after resident died of serious burns
Walter Powley was admitted to Western Park View in Hinckley Road for emergency care in May 2012 after an occupational therapist advised his family he could no longer be safely left alone at home due to his risk of falling.
On 23 January, Leicester Crown Court heard that just four days later, Mr Pow…
Kent firm and director in court for unsafe demolition site
A Kent construction company and its managing director have been prosecuted after both displayed a ‘shocking disregard’ for workers’ safety at a demolition site in Surrey.
Daniel Lautier admitted two breaches of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act and his firm, ICG Construction Servic…
Three injured in floor collapse at Trafford mansion
Two building firms have been ordered to pay a total of £72,000 in fines and costs after a floor collapsed during the construction of a six-bedroom mansion in Trafford, injuring three workers.
One of the men sustained major injuries when he was struck by a falling concrete beam, was in hospital f…
Scaffolding firm in court for department store failings
A Hertfordshire scaffolding firm has been fined for a catalogue of safety failings – including throwing and catching metal fittings over the heads of shoppers – as they erected two scaffolds outside an Oxford department store.
Darren Baker Scaffolding Limited also failed to ensure the structu…
Didcot manufacturer fined for acetone burn failings
A specialist manufacturer of vessels and pipework designed to carry liquid nitrogen and liquid oxygen has been fined after a welder was seriously burned during unsafe hotwork.
The 38 year-old employee, from Oxford, who does not want to be named, was in hospital for a week and needed skin grafts a…
Stalybridge firm fined after half tonne car drops on mechanic
A vehicle salvage firm in Stalybridge has been fined over multiple safety failings after a car weighing more than half a tonne fell from a forklift truck, crushing a young mechanic underneath.
The 22-year-old from Ashton-under-Lyne, who has asked not to be named, suffered severe injuries incl…
Burnley bakery fined after worker loses fingertips in pasty machine
A Burnley bakery has appeared in court after an employee had the tips of two fingers chopped off by a pasty-making machine.
On 20 February, Tayyabah Bakery Ltd. was prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) after an investigation found part of a metal guard had been deliberately removed…
Littleborough firm in court after employee badly burned in factory fire
A Littleborough factory has been sentenced for safety failings following a major fire which left an employee with severe burns.
Multiroof Building Products Ltd. was prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) following the blaze on 28 May 2012, which destroyed the entire factory and sever…
Security company sentenced for generator death failings
A security company has been fined for safety failings after a lone working security guard was killed by carbon monoxide fumes from a petrol generator.
Arthur Ebirim, 45, from Peckham, south-east London, was overcome by the killer gas on 28 October 2011 as he kept a night-time watch over a disused…