Worker died during first day at work
A Newmarket retail display firm has been fined £80,000 plus £16,914 costs, after an employee was crushed to death by a stack of glass he was unloading on his first day at work.
A packaging manufacturer has been fined £50,000 plus £76,…
An international frozen food company has been fined after a worker was injured by the moving blades of an industrial freezer.
More than 70 firms across West Yorkshire have been told to …
An international cement company has been prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) after a worker was set alight in an explosion.
An investigation by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) found that Lafarge Cement UK Plc of Granite Way, S…
Lancashire couple in court after repeated injuries
A Lancashire couple has been prosecuted after an employee was seriously injured twice in less than two months at a pine furniture workshop in Bacup.
Restoration firm fined after wall collapse
A Wiltshire construction company has been prosec…
£30k fines after Salford worker killed by digger bucket
Fines totalling £30,000 have been issued following the death of a Salford worker, who was struck by the excavator bucket on a digger. John Cain, 36, was working on a project to demolish the Albert Park Inn on Great Clowes Street in Salford…
Review of the Seveso II Directive
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has contracted ORC International to gather information which will inform the UK's Impact Assessment on possible changes to the Seveso II Directive. HSE is extremely keen for all businesses to take part, regardless of how many…
Health Protection Agency fined for spillage
The HPA has been fined £25,000 following the spillage of up to a billion doses of the lethal bug E.coli during an accident at its north London laboratory.
A ferry crewman has been crushed by a water-tight hydraulic d…
Temporary worker badly scalded
FMC Chemicals Ltd has been fined after a temporary worker was badly scalded while using steam to unblock pipes containing lithium chloride in June 2008. The firm had already been issued with a warning after a worker was burned during maintenance work in 2007.