A St Helens steel manufacturer has been sentenced after a worker suffered serious injuries to his left hand when it was pulled into machinery.
Hi Tech Steel Services Ltd. was prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) following the incident at its factory at Bold Industrial Estate …
An apprentice worker was badly injured after he fell off scaffolding which was not properly secured at Pendennis Shipyard Ltd. in Falmouth.
In a prosecution brought by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) on 27 April, Truro magistrates heard that David Banks, from St Austell, who was 19 at the…
Waste management provider Veolia Environmental Services has been fined after an agency worker was seriously burned by hot ash at an incineration depot in Deptford.
The employee sustained 17 per cent burns to his body whilst cleaning ash from a filtration hopper at a Veolia plant on Landman …
A family was exposed to deadly carbon monoxide fumes after building work on a chimney caused a blockage in a flue.
Builder Wayne Marshall had been engaged to carry out repairs to a joint chimney by householders at a property in Dulais Road, Seven Sisters in March 2010, but left an amount of rub…
A fairground ride operator has been fined after a worker was thrown from a ride during the 2010 May Bank Holiday fair in Barnard Castle.
On 31 May 2010, Martin Brown, 17, from Thirsk, North Yorkshire was working for Elliot Crow, of ride owners Alan Crow Amusements, as a ride attendant on the …
A coating and treatment company with premises in Swavesey, Cambridgeshire has been fined for safety failings after an employee suffered an electric shock.
He received an electric shock whilst checking new cables on a hardening machine that had recently been maintained, sustaining open wound…
A Montrose farming partnership has been fined after two agricultural workers were severely injured when a telescopic handler went out of control, fell down a steep bank and came to rest at the top of a cliff.
David Alston Junior, 19, and Ian Murray, 54, were working for Nether Dysart Farms, a…
A church council in South Kensington has been prosecuted for safety failings after a self-employed joiner was left paralysed when he fell from the balcony of St Paul's church in Onslow Square.
The worker fell three metres from a poorly guarded balcony during refurbishment work at the site. …
A construction company has been fined for continuing unsafe working
practices at a site in Upper Norwood, Croydon, after repeatedly ignoring
safety warnings.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) identified multiple failings at a project on Sylvan Hill run by Unicorn Services Limited, where t…
An unregistered gas fitter has been prosecuted for illegally carrying out work on a house in Hucknall, putting residents' lives at risk.
Robert Metcalf, 54, installed a new gas boiler at the Long Hill Rise property during August and September 2009, but following problems with the new boiler t…
A self-employed gas engineer has been fined for carrying out unregistered work on commercial premises in Ipswich.
Duncan Frere, 37, of Wilkinson Drive, Ipswich was hired between May and June 2010 to carry out the installation and connection of a number of gas appliances at the Super Kebab House…
A Worcestershire egg company has been fined after a worker severed two fingers while cleaning a drain on a production line.
The 25 year-old employee lost part of his index and middle fingers on his right hand when it came into contact with a heavy duty blade at Bumble Hole Foods Ltd., Fockbury,…
An Edmonton-based recycling company has been fined for failing to protect employees working with lead.
Metal and Waste Recycling Ltd., of Albert Works, Kenninghall Rd, Edmonton had bought and was stripping some lead-sheathed copper cabling from British Telecom (BT) after the network began to be…
An unregistered gas installer was caught illegally carrying out work on a house in Newark.
Mr Phillip Birchmore, trading as PSB Plumbing and Heating, capped off a gas supply at the property in August 2010. He then removed one boiler and hung a replacement boiler on the wall. Concerns were rais…
A company has been fined after a visit by Health and Safety Executive (HSE) inspectors found dangerous conditions in a factory on an industrial estate near Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk.
Suffolk Mushrooms Limited was also housing 37 employees in a disused office block with a potentially unsafe gas boi…
A Hertfordshire building company has been fined for injuring a woman as she waited for a bus.
Concentra Ltd., based in Waltham Cross, was prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) after inspectors found that the incident on 26 September 2008 was preventable.
Westminster Magistrates' …
A chain of dry cleaners in Bedford has been fined after putting workers' lives at risk from a poorly-maintained gas boiler.
Bedford Magistrates' Court heard inspectors from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) visited Kempston Cleaners in Tavistock Street on 1 July 2011 after an alert from an …
The Corrugated Case Company Ltd. has been fined after an employee was seriously injured by a heavy goods vehicle at its site on Pilsley Road in Danesmoor, Chesterfield.
Pete Newsum, 55, of Chesterfield was returning to site from neighbouring premises after his lunch break on 14 December 2010 …
A Worksop man has been fined after an employee was crushed to death when a tractor overturned and landed on him.
Christopher Fox, 60, from Osberton near Worksop, was killed instantly when the tractor overturned during a tree felling operation. Mr Fox was standing by the tractor which was being …
A Wigan landlord has been prosecuted for putting the life of a tenant at risk by falsifying a gas safety document.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) took legal action against Terence McBride after it discovered he had changed the dates on the record for an annual gas safety check to suggest…