Two men who operated a Harrogate-based plumbing firm have been handed
suspended prison terms for falsely claiming to be Gas Safe registered
engineers and leaving one local family in "immediate danger".
The men, sole employees and directors of PH Plumbing and Heating Engineers Ltd, were found out …
A door-making firm has been fined after a Derbyshire machine operator suffered severe and permanent hand injuries.
Hugo Valdes Vera, 37, of Loscoe, was working for SIG Manufacturing Ltd on Milnhay Road, Langley Mill, Derbyshire on 18 February 2010 when his left hand was trapped between two heated …
A Lancashire roofer has been prosecuted after he and two employees were spotted on a shop roof without any protection to stop them falling.
Ross Singleton, who trades as Ross's Roofing, was photographed by an inspector from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) as he and the two other workers car…
A demolition worker from Croydon has been taken to court after his actions left one of his colleagues with serious leg injuries.
Devon Stoner, 44, of Whitehorse Road in Croydon was prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) after the incident in January this year, when he was carrying out…
The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) have added twenty substances to the candidate list. Companies manufacturing or importing these substances, or articles containing the substances, need to check whether they have any obligations which result from the listing.
The list now contains seventy-three s…
A plumber who put a householder at risk by illegally installing and working on a gas boiler has been sentenced.
Trading as C&H Services, Christopher Johnson, 45, installed a new gas boiler in the kitchen of a residential property in Fairfield Road, Dunstable in April 2010.
He was called back …
High street chocolate chain Thorntons has been fined after a worker broke her finger while operating a wrapping machine.
Ellen Yardley, 37, from Derbyshire was working at the company’s Somercotes plant on a foil wrapping machine, where chocolates were wrapped in foil and dispensed down a chute i…
A scaffolder from Manchester will never walk again after being crushed by metal tubes which fell from a crane.
David Collins, a 31-year-old father of two who worked for Bury firm Spectra Scaffolding, suffered severe injuries to his head, back and leg and is now paraplegic.
The Health and Sa…
A landlord has been fined after he failed to make sure gas safety
checks were carried out at a house in Blackburn, putting a family of
eight at risk.
Rashid Hussain was prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) after he ignored repeated warnings about not arranging an annual visit by a…
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Palletways (UK) Ltd. has been fined after a forklift driver broke his neck when a computer cabinet he was loading onto a trailer fell on him.
Barry Hill, 60, was operating the truck at Palletways (UK) Ltd, Fradley Distribution Park, when he noticed that one of the cabinets was rocking on the for…
A North Wales man, who falsely claimed to be a registered gas
engineer, has been sentenced to eight months' imprisonment after
dangerously installing a gas boiler.
The Heath and Safety Executive (HSE) prosecuted Mr Lee Hampshire, trading as LH Heating and Plumbing, for carrying out gas work and …
Vesuvius UK Limited has been fined after a forklift truck driver fell from a ramp whilst unloading a lorry.
Andrew Baxter, 50, from Eckington was unloading a 20ft container at Vesuvius UK Limited's Sheepbridge Works in Chesterfield on 15 February 2010.
Mr Baxter was using a forklift truck and …
Westland Nurseries has been fined after a worker suffered serious head injuries and fractured his hand when he fell through a glasshouse roof.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) prosecuted the company following the incident at its premises on 4 December 2009.
Worcester Magistrates' Court heard …
Yorkshire Spin Galvanising Ltd. has been prosecuted for safety failings after a maintenance engineer was crushed by a 1.5 tonne weight landing on his back.
The worker suffered a broken shoulder, two cracked ribs and the tops of three vertebrae were snapped off when he was trapped between the count…
Two security guards suffered serious facial burns after an explosion at the Welbeck Colliery site at Meden Vale on 31 December.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is investigating the incident along with police and the fire service as the source of the explosion at an electrical sub station at th…
Did you know that every week in the UK, on average...
4 plumbers die
20 tradesmen die
6 electricians die
8 joiners die
due to exposure to asbestos?
Asbestos was extensively used as a building material in the UK from the 1950s through to the mid-1980s. It was used for a variety of purpose…
A contract worker on the Honeywell site in Amherstburg was rushed to hospital yesterday after falling about four metres whilst carrying out inspection work on the site, which is due to be demolished.
The injured man is said to have suffered "a broken arm and lacerations".
David Cameron has ordered health and social care services to be brought together in order to benefit patients in a move which government advisers are calling the NHS's most urgent overhaul.
The changes will lead to some hospitals closing, warned the pro-integration NHS Confederation, which represent…