A Northumberland firm and two of its directors have been sentenced for safety failings after a teenage worker died following a fall from a barn roof.
Jamie Lee Duddin, 18, of Corbridge, and another Scotts of Whittington Ltd. employee were carrying out repairs to the roof lights of the barn …
A vehicle engineering, design and testing firm has been fined after two employees were injured when they fell from a platform.
One of the workers broke his collar bone and needed to take six weeks off work after the incident at Mira Limited's Watling Street site near Nuneaton on 5 July last yea…
An East Yorkshire farm owner has been fined for a serious breach of
safety law after a 20-year-old worker suffered severe injuries when he
fell 4.5 metres through a roof light.
Daniel Boldan Hoggard was on the roof trying to repair a leak between two adjoining farm buildings at Low Hunsley Fa…
Two construction companies have been fined a total of £301,000 after a worker fell 22 metres to his death in Manchester.
Christopher Heaton, from St Helens, was working on the Leftbank riverside apartments in Manchester city centre - part of the Spinningfields development - when he was dragged…
A demolition boss has been prosecuted after a worker was left paralysed following a fall from the roof of a Sunderland pub.
The 67-year-old injured man from Sunderland was working for David Brian Riseborough, trading as The North Eastern Demolition Company, when the incident happened on 29 June 2…
A Derbyshire manufacturing firm and its director have been fined after two teenage agency workers fell from a lifting platform.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) prosecuted Storetec Limited and one of its Directors after Leon Payne, 18, from Sutton in Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, broke his ba…
A Leicester construction company has been fined for safety failings after a 19-year-old worker was hurt falling from a roof.
Apprentice joiner Jonathan Hill was working on a housing development in Croft Road, Cosby, fitting wooden batons between roof trusses when he slipped and fell around two …
A building firm has been sentenced after a bricklayer broke his back
when he fell through exposed floor joists at a site in Widnes.
The 40-year-old man from Southport was working on a project to refurbish a corner shop and construct four one-bedroom houses when he fell three metres from the f…
A building firm has been prosecuted for safety failings after a
decorator was seriously injured when he fell through a substandard guard
rail at a housing development in Reading.
Phillip Williams, 63, from Reading, fractured his hip, broke five ribs, chipped a bone in his spine and was left w…
An Isle of Wight boat builder has been prosecuted for neglecting safety precautions after a worker fell from wooden staging set up around a boat while it was being refurbished.
The employee, who had worked at the yard for 16 years, was attempting to pick up a linisher - a specialist sanding/p…
A Devon firm has been prosecuted after a driver suffered severe injuries when he fell from the top of a lorry onto a concrete floor while removing the cover from his load at a Wiltshire feed mill.
Lee Waters fell from the tipper truck because Mole Valley Feed Solutions had failed to put basic…
A firm, its director and a supervisor have been sentenced for safety
failings after a worker died from injuries sustained in a fall from
scaffolding at a construction site in East Sussex.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) prosecuted Apex Scaffolding (Sussex) Ltd., its director, Michael Wa…
An apprentice electrician sustained serious back injuries after falling through a ceiling while working in the loft space of a Swindon youth centre.
Richard O'Connor's employer Roberts and Prowse (Swindon) Ltd. failed to carry out a specific risk assessment for the work, and failed to ensur…
An Aberdeenshire roofing boss has been fined after one of his workers was seriously injured when he fell five metres from the edge of a flat roof.
Alister McNeilly, 26, worked for Brian George Mackie, who traded as Donside Slating which specialises in roofing work.
Aberdeen Sheriff Court heard…
A construction firm has been sentenced for safety failings after a roofer was badly injured in a fall from scaffolding at a house in Trafford.
Stephen Cartwright fell approximately three metres from the scaffolding, which had no safety rail, at a detached property on Carrwood, in Hale Barns…
The operator of a Sheffield dental practice has been fined for safety failings after a receptionist fell more than three metres through a roof light while spending her lunch break on the flat roof of the surgery.
The woman, then 40, went on to the roof of a single-storey extension at the Fi…
A landlord has been fined after a self-employed builder died while replacing a roof on a property in Middlesex.
Mr Jagdev Singh Bal, the landlord of a property on Upton Road, Hounslow, was contacted by his letting agency when tenants reported a wet ceiling in an upstairs bathroom.
Mr Bal engag…
The director of a building firm has been prosecuted after a self-employed contractor fell to his death through a fragile roof at an industrial building in Penryn.
Paul Gibbons, 59, who lived in Porthleven, was carrying out re-roofing work for Acryflor Ltd. at the Kernick Road Industrial Estat…
A North Devon farming business has been prosecuted for safety failings after a worker fractured his skull falling from the prong of a forklift truck at an animal feed mill.
Richard Robinson, 64, from Pyworthy, near Holsworthy, was attempting to crush recycled material when the fall occurred at Cr…
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. …