A housing repair and maintenance company has been fined after a Nottingham worker suffered serious neck and back fractures falling 2.4 metres through a fragile roof.
The 49-year-old employee needed to wear a body and neck brace for three months after falling head first through an outhouse r…
A construction firm and a roofing company have been fined for their part in a fall at a Lincoln retail park.
Taylor Pearson Construction Limited was the principal contractor building a new retail unit at The Carlton Centre on Outer Circle Road. The company sub-contracted roof cladding work to R…
A company which makes modular timber buildings has been fined after an
employee suffered multiple injuries falling from a canopy at a
Shropshire school.
RG Stones (Buildings) Ltd. had been contracted to replace the canopy between two temporary buildings at Lakelands School on Oswestry Road in…
A property developer has been fined after the routine inspection of a construction site discovered safety failings that endangered the lives of workers.
Health and Safety Executive (HSE) inspectors visited Stefano Di Piazza's construction site at Sun Street, Waltham Abbey, Essex, on 10 Feb…
Three companies were ordered to pay a total of £232,000 in fines and costs after two workers on an Exeter building site suffered severe injuries when the platform they were working on collapsed and fell four storeys down a lift shaft.
On 3 August, Exeter Crown Court heard that the men were w…
A construction and design company in Berkshire has been prosecuted for safety failings after a bricklayer was seriously injured when he fell three metres through a skylight opening in a flat roof.
The worker broke his pelvis and wrist in the fall at Holmsbury St. Mary, Surrey, on 18 November …
A beef supplier has been fined after a worker fractured his spine and heel bone after falling during dangerous work at height at a Lincoln abattoir.
The maintenance engineer has been told he may never fully recover from the injuries he sustained in the incident at Dovecote Park Ltd., Skelli…
Two firms have been prosecuted after a worker suffered serious injuries when he was struck by a pipe and fell from a stepladder.
The 37-year-old from South Shields was working for MB Air Systems Ltd. as a pipework installation engineer when the incident happened on 13 December 2010.
MB Air Sys…
Two workers were fortunate to escape with only minor injuries when they fell from a school roof in Didsbury, a court has heard.
The men had been investigating a leak in the flat roof at Barlow Moor High School when one of them leant on a wooden handrail that collapsed. The other worker tried to…
An Essex car parts manufacturer has been prosecuted for safety failings after an employee fell through a mezzanine floor at a Hawkwell factory.
The Auto-Plas worker required stitches to a hand injury and was off works for two weeks as a result of the incident on 17 May last year.
On 18…
People who work high above the ground have a number of things to consider so that they stay safe. From telephone line workers to tree pruners to window cleaners, all personnel who must work high above the ground need the best, most stable access equipment for height.
Equipment that provides support…
A Lincolnshire landscape gardener has been fined after being spotted carrying out unsafe tree work.
John Holland and an employee were felling a tree at a house in Foxgloves, Deeping St James, on 19 August 2011. They were both using a chainsaw, despite not being qualified to do so and neither…
A demolition firm and its director have been fined for endangering workers at a site in Lancing, West Sussex.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) prosecuted Rabbit Demolition and Excavation Ltd. and its director, Colin Bell, for not providing a safe means for working on a roof during the demo…
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…
Three Wirral employees could have been killed if they had fallen while
carrying out work to a warehouse roof in Birkenhead, a court has heard.
The men were seen repairing the leaking roof, up to 16 metres above the ground, without harnesses or any suitable safety measures to stop them falling…
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 company installing fans on the roof of a South Wales crematorium
endangered workers and members of the public with a haphazard approach
to safety.
Employees of IFZW Maintenance Ltd. were allowed to work on the roof of Morriston Crematorium in Swansea without any protection from falls - a …