Fras Contractors Limited and its managing director have been prosecuted for safety failings after a worker received an electric shock from a live junction box during poorly planned maintenance work in London. In addition, the juction box was accessed by placing a ladder on storage boxes beneath i…
Blog posts March 2012
Two Leeds firms in court over worker's crush injuries
A construction worker had both legs broken when a 22-tonne excavator reversed over him on a building site in Leeds, a court has heard.
The 58-year-old man from Barnsley, suffered severe crush injuries when the excavator backed into him as he erected boundary fencing on a Tinshill building site on…
Council fined after worker loses arm in wood chipper
Durham County Council has been prosecuted for safety failings after a grounds-man's arm was severed in a wood chipper machine.
The 25-year-old council worker, from Ferryhill, who does not wish to be named, was cutting back bushes near Atherton Close, Spennymoor when the incident occurred on 4 Augu…
Failure to identify asbestos put workers at risk
A Cardiff company has been fined for putting the health of demolition workers at risk after a building survey failed to identify the presence of asbestos.
Between 15 and 25 January 2010 PHH Environmental (UK) Ltd was commissioned to produce an asbestos survey on the soon to be demolished Old Cast…
Worker suffers multiple fractures at international paper firm
DS Smith Packaging Ltd. has been fined after an employee suffered breaks to his arm and ribs in machinery at a Lincolnshire factory.
The 27-year-old man, who does not wish to be named, was being trained to use a re-winder - a rotating spool that winds corrugated cardboard packaging into a roll - …
Fines after workers exposed to asbestos
An Ammanford-based knitwear company and a cladding firm site foreman have been fined for putting workers and visitors at risk of exposure to asbestos.
Corgi Hosiery Ltd. contracted Dragon Cladding Ltd. to remove an asbestos cement sheet roof at their New Road branch in Ammanford, Carmarthenshire
…Worker seriously burned after cutting through 11,000 volt cable in Worcester
Two companies have been fined after a demolition worker was engulfed
in flames when he cut through a live 11,000 volt cable at an electricity
substation in Worcester.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) prosecuted Birmingham firm DSM Demolition Ltd. and Halesowen-based Gould Singleton Architect…
Film company fined after cameraman hurt on set
A production company has been fined after a cameraman fell more than three metres from the set of a forthcoming major film.
The 62-year-old was working on the set of 47 Ronin at Shepperton Studios, Middlesex, when he fell through an opening in the floor. The opening was for access to a raised area…
London manufacturer fined for major safety breaches
A manufacturing company based in Uxbridge has been fined for a series of health and safety breaches which put its employees at risk.
The large number of Notices were issued between September 2010 and March 2011, after a wide range of health and safety failings were discovered at the company's pre…
Yorkshire horse trainer fined for skylight fall
The owner of racing stables in North Yorkshire has been prosecuted after a yard worker fell more than three metres through a skylight in a stable block.
Paul Cussons, who had worked at Thorndale Farm near Richmond for 26 years, was asked by trainer and bloodstock agent Alan Swinbank to cut down …
Company fined after worker sustains serious burns
An employee of an Oxfordshire-based engineering company sustained life-threatening burns after striking a high voltage electric cable during construction work on the new Crossrail railway.
Fugro Engineering Services Ltd was appointed principal contractor to deliver a series of ground investigatio…
Fall from height leads to fines
Two Nottingham companies have been fined after a worker fell more than nine metres, injuring his back.
The 38-year-old employee of M-tech Engineering Limited fell from a mobile tower scaffold being used to install a steel staircase at a building in Convent Street, Nottingham, on 15 April 2009.
He …
Yorkshire trailer firm fined £100,000 over driver's death
A worker died when a six-metre steel machine landed on top of him after it was dislodged from overhead brackets at a factory in East Yorkshire.
Ronald Wood, 59, from Holme-on-Spalding-Moor, was struck on the head by the steel vacuum lifter, which weighed two-thirds of a tonne, when it was knocke…
Llanelli construction firm fined over worker's injury
A Llanelli construction firm has been fined after a worker suffered serious injuries when he was hit by a concrete beam.
The employee, from Carmarthen, was working with a colleague for W A Bowler Ltd. on the installation of a beam and block floor at Hillside Care Home in the Uplands area of Swanse…
Digger driver trapped under machine by falling wall
A digger driver has been hurt at the site of a construction project in Plymouth, Devon.
Emergency services at currently at Thorn Park off Mannamead Road where building work was being done at a private house.
Gust of wind blows worker off top of shipping container
A food manufacturing firm has been fined after a worker was blown off the top of a shipping container while moving corrugated metal sheets.
Barry Walton, 64, from Taunton, was an employee of Vion Foods UK Ltd and was working at their food processing plant in Wiveliscombe when the incident happen…
Fife company fined after lathe crushes worker's leg
A Fife engineering company has been fined £10,000 after a lathe weighing more than a tonne toppled onto a worker’s leg.
Craig Stewart, 21, worked for AG Brown Ltd, a metal fabrication company which specialises in making stairs and other metal products for the oil and gas industries and general…
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