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Posted 9 years ago
Firm fined for worker’s death at paper mill
Health and Safety Executive Press Releases 2015
A company has been fined following the death of a worker who became trapped in unguarded machinery at a Devon paper mill. John Stoddart, 42, who lived in Cullompton, was attempting to smooth out felt on a conveyor at the Higher Kings Mill in the town when he was pulled into the machinery causing fatal […]
Posted 9 years ago
Timber manufacturer fined after employee suffers severe hand injuries
Health and Safety Executive Press Releases 2015
A timber gate manufacturer in Daventry has been fined after a young employee lost two fingers on his left hand while working on machinery. The 27-year-old employee of Main Line Timber Limited was pulled into the rotating blade of an inadequately guarded circular saw which was not fitted with a riving knife or ‘take off’ […]
Posted 9 years ago
Glasgow vehicle manufacturer fined after worker’s roof fall
Health and Safety Executive Press Releases 2015
A company that specialises in building motor vehicles special purpose vehicles such as ambulances and taxis has been sentenced after exposing a worker a risk of fall from a roof from its Balmore Road premises. Glasgow Sheriff Court heard that on 30 March 2010 an employee undertook roof cleaning work but Allied Vehicles Ltd had […]
Posted 9 years ago
Plumber fined after causing explosion at domestic property
Health and Safety Executive Press Releases 2015
A self-employed plumber has been fined for safety failings that led to an explosion at a domestic property in Cambrian Way, Haslingden. Burnley Magistrates’ Court heard how, in May 2014, Lee Barrett failed to put in place the appropriate safety devices when removing an existing water tank for a loft conversion. He had, effectively, created […]
Posted 9 years ago
Manufacturer fined after worker suffered head injuries
Health and Safety Executive Press Releases 2015
A Bath-based manufacturer, Rotork UK Ltd, was fined for safety failings on Thursday 6 August 2015. Mansfield Magistrates’ Court heard how on the 31 January 2014 a 30-year-old worker was struck in the face by a chuck key at their site in Huthwaite, resulting in serious injuries. The chuck key was ejected from the lathe. […]
Posted 9 years ago
Man fined for gas safety failings
Health and Safety Executive Press Releases 2015
A Bedford man was fined for safety failings after installing an LPG fuelled boiler at a domestic property. He was not gas safe registered and had no recognised qualifications to carry out the work Luton Magistrates’ Court heard how, in June 2013, Kalimat Ramalingum (58 years old)claimed to be gas safe registered to the homeowners […]
Posted 9 years ago
Roofing contractor fined after employee fell through fragile roof
Health and Safety Executive Press Releases 2015
A Norwich-based roofing contractor has been fined after his employee fell seven metres through a roof on which he was working. Sole trader Leighton Johnson and his employee were completing a job on a fragile roof at a factory in Kings Lynn on 11 August 2014. The 26-year-old employee was kneeling on a scaffolding board […]
Posted 9 years ago
Roofing company prosecuted over worker’s fall
Health and Safety Executive Press Releases 2015
Following an incident on 30 September 2013, HSE attended a property on Paragon Place, London and subsequently prosecuted, Chris Ball & Son Roofing Ltd., of Greenwich, for safety breaches. West London Magistrates yesterday were told that two roof workers were tasked with removing tiles and re-felting a gulley area adjacent to a pitched roof. The company had failed […]
Posted 9 years ago
Business partners fined following worker injured in explosion
Health and Safety Executive Press Releases 2015
Yorkshire business partners are fined after worker is blinded in explosion. Northallerton Magistrates, 4 August, heard how the explosion at Mason Engineering on 18 November 2013 happened as they were transferring oxygen between pressurised cylinders. The partners had rigged up a make-shift hose fitting that was not designed for the high risk procedure. Debris built […]
Posted 9 years ago
Woodwork company fined after worker lost fingers
Health and Safety Executive Press Releases 2015
A Gloucestershire-based woodwork firm was fined after a worker lost three fingers whilst using a table saw. Stroud Magistrates Court heard that on the 22 September 2014 agency worker, Egidijus Norkus, 44, was instructed to use the table saw by his supervisor to cut tongue and grove boards being used to make bird table bases. […]
Posted 9 years ago
Scaffolding firm fined after worker killed in fall
Health and Safety Executive Press Releases 2015
A Glasgow scaffolding firm has been fined after a roof worker fell nearly six metres to his death. James Baillie, 53, suffered serious head injuries after he fell through a scaffold tower deck whilst carrying out roof work at a two storey domestic property in Thorntonhall, South Lanarkshire on 22 September 2011. He died from […]
Posted 9 years ago
Heating engineers in court over asbestos
Health and Safety Executive Press Releases 2015
A Stockport heating engineering firm were sentenced after two of its engineers were exposed to asbestos while working at a Manchester school. Trafford Magistrates’ Court heard Flueclean were contracted to replace boilers in the boiler room of the school. However, two of Flueclean’s gas engineers were exposed to asbestos when they took the side panels […]
Posted 9 years ago
Building contractor sentenced over unsafe working practices
Health and Safety Executive Press Releases 2015
An international construction firm has been sentenced after admitting multiple safety issues at a Manchester site where it was carrying out a shop refurbishment. Betcat International Limited is based in Seville, Spain, but has offices in locations around Europe, including London. The firm was hired by high street clothing chain Mango to carry out refurbishment […]
Posted 9 years ago
Court hears print dangers ‘largely ignored’
Health and Safety Executive Press Releases 2015
A Leeds printing company has been fined after an employee had the end of his thumb severed when it was drawn into an unguarded running nip between the rollers of a glueing machine. The 46-year-old worker, from Rodley, was working on a print run for a supermarket loyalty voucher mailing at The Lettershop Ltd’s premises […]
Posted 9 years ago
Gas installer jailed over shoddy gas work
Health and Safety Executive Press Releases 2015
A gas installer has been jailed after carrying out dangerous and illegal work at two homes in Hertfordshire. Shane Wyatt, from Buntingford, trading as S & J Plumbing and Heating, carried out work on gas appliances at homes in Buntingford and Baldock, leaving the fittings in an unsafe state in both cases. Some of the work […]
Posted 9 years ago
Company sentenced after worker’s life changing injuries
Health and Safety Executive Press Releases 2015
A company was fined £40,000 today after a worker suffered life changing injuries when part a structure weighing 750kg fell on him. Basingstoke Magistrates’ Court heard how an employee of Tunnel Tech Limited, was dismantling polytunnel structures when the end bulkhead weighing fell on him causing life threatening injuries. A polytunnel is a tunnel made […]
Posted 9 years ago
Global Energy Firm fined £1.4m after worker killed in refinery fire
Health and Safety Executive Press Releases 2015
Total UK Limited have been fined £1.4 million after a major fire led to the death of a worker at an oil refinery in North Lincolnshire. Twenty-four year old Robert Greenacre from Grimsby was working near a crude oil distillation unit just before the fire broke out at the Lindsey Oil Refinery (TLOR) in Immingham on […]
Posted 9 years ago
Skipper sentenced for failings leading to diver death
Health and Safety Executive Press Releases 2015
The skipper of a shellfish fishing boat has been sentenced for serious safety failings after the death of a diver in the River Forth Estuary. Graeme Mackie, 31, of Tranent, West Lothian, was working as a scuba diver to collect shellfish from Ronald John MacNeil’s boat the “Rob Roy” when the incident happed on 11 […]
Posted 9 years ago
Metal recycling firm fined after worker suffered hand and arm injuries
Health and Safety Executive Press Releases 2015
Totternhoe Metal Recycling Limited (TMR) have been fined after a worker was injured whilst delivering waste metal. The 40 year old worker from Bedfordshire, who does not wish to be named, lost the top of his thumb and suffered damage to his hand and arm in the incident which happened on 24 April 2014 at […]
Posted 9 years ago
Colchester gas engineer fined over illegal work
Health and Safety Executive Press Releases 2015
An unregistered gas engineer has been fined after working unlawfully on a boiler at domestic premises in Colchester. Colchester Magistrates Court heard that Derek Ringe, 64, serviced and repaired a domestic boiler at a property in Colchester, whilst not being recorded on Gas Safe Register on two separate occasions in July 2013 and July 2014. […]
