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Posted 8 years ago
Supermarket in court after worker injured in roof fall
Health and Safety Executive Press Releases 2015
Supermarket chain Tesco has been fined after health and safety breaches led to a worker falling through a skylight. The employee of Tesco Maintenance Ltd was lucky to suffer only minor injuries after falling 30 feet through a fragile skylight onto the trading area floor of the Tesco Liscard Express store in Liscard Village, Wallasey, on the 13th June 2014. […]
Posted 8 years ago
Paper mill worker left with disabling crush injuries
Health and Safety Executive Press Releases 2015
A Halifax paper mill firm has been fined for safety breaches after a worker suffered severe crush injuries to his right hand. Bradford Crown Court heard that the injured worker sustained serious crush injuries in September 2013 while changing a couch roll on a board machine at Sonoco Cores & Paper Ltd’s Halifax plant. The worker’s middle […]
Posted 8 years ago
HSE issues MOD with Crown Censure over soldier death
Health and Safety Executive Press Releases 2015
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has been issued with a Crown Censure by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) after a soldier died when he was shot in the neck on a training exercise. Fusilier Dean Griffiths, 21, whose partner was expecting their first child, received a fatal bullet wound to the neck on 14 […]
Posted 8 years ago
Contractor seriously injured in fragile skylight fall
Health and Safety Executive Press Releases 2015
London exhibition venue firm, The Business Design Centre Ltd, and a building contractor have been fined for safety failings after a specialist contractor fell through a fragile skylight. Westminster Magistrates’ Court heard how the Business Design Centre allowed workers to cross an unsafe roof, which contained three fragile skylights and open edges, and failed to […]
Posted 8 years ago
Roofing firm fined after worker’s ladder fall
Health and Safety Executive Press Releases 2015
A King’s Lynn roofing company has been prosecuted after a worker fell seven metres from a scaffold access ladder while assisting with chimney repairs. Kings Lynn Magistrates Court heard how the worker was subcontracted by J Webber Roofing Limited to assist with removing waste, mixing cement and bringing tools up to colleagues who were working on […]
Posted 8 years ago
Self-employed trader fined for safety failings
Health and Safety Executive Press Releases 2015
A Bradford self-employed trader was sentenced today for safety breaches after poor scaffolding arrangements at a domestic property put himself and others at risk. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) prosecuted Mark Podstawski, 47, after an investigation found poor planning, the absence of guard rails and a scaffold not of a recognised design, put himself and others, including people on […]
Posted 8 years ago
Alton Towers’ owners fined £5million over Smiler crash
Health and Safety Executive Press Releases 2015
The owners of Alton Towers have been fined £5million with costs of £69,955.40 following a rollercoaster collision which left 16 people injured, a number of them seriously. Two young women on the Smiler ride suffered leg amputations and others suffered severe injuries when their carriage collided with a stationary carriage on the same track on […]
Posted 8 years ago
HSE to prosecute manufacturing company following Red Arrow pilot death
Health and Safety Executive Press Releases 2015
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has informed an ejection seat manufacturer that it will be prosecuted following the death of Flt Lt Sean Cunningham on 8th November 2011. HSE’s Inspector David Butter said: “HSE has today informed Martin Baker Aircraft Ltd that it will be prosecuted for an alleged breach of health and safety […]
Posted 8 years ago
Delivery firm fined after worker loses leg
Health and Safety Executive Press Releases 2015
A Buckinghamshire delivery firm has been fined after a driver suffered life changing injuries when he was hit by a reversing fork-lift truck. Delivered UK Ltd was prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive after the incident on 2 September 2014 at their depot in Ajax Avenue in Slough. Reading Crown Court heard how the […]
Posted 8 years ago
Star company of BBC series prosecuted over worker injury
Health and Safety Executive Press Releases 2015
A Bolton based scrapyard that featured in a recent BBC documentary series has been sentenced after an employee suffered facial injuries at work. Vehicle breakers firm, The Scrappers Ltd and Terry Walker, a consultant for the company, appeared at Minshull Street Crown Court, Manchester where they denied breaches of health and safety law. Both defendants […]
Posted 8 years ago
Farm fined for unlawful use of dangerous poison
Health and Safety Executive Press Releases 2015
Norfolk farming firm T Long and Company Limited has been prosecuted for putting workers and members of the public at risk from a dangerous poison being used to control rabbits. Norfolk Crown Court heard how a resident in the village of Bracon Ash, near Wymondham in Norfolk, saw two men trespassing in her garden on […]
Posted 8 years ago
Somerset manufacturer prosecuted for workers death
Health and Safety Executive Press Releases 2015
A company in Somerset has been fined after the death of a worker who fell through a factory roof skylight. Taunton Crown Court heard Samuel Wright Maxwell, 46, of Wells Somerset was employed by Cooper B Line (CBL) factory in Highbridge, Somerset. As a maintenance worker, Mr Maxwell had permission to go onto the roofs […]
Posted 8 years ago
Hemel Hampstead manufacturer fined £1m following worker’s death
Health and Safety Executive Press Releases 2015
A manufacturing company based in Hemel Hampstead has been fined £1million after a worker was crushed to death by falling machinery. Colin Reddish, 48, from Lincolnshire was involved in moving a large CNC milling machine within the company’s Grantham factory on 30th April 2015 when it overturned and killed him. The machine had been lifted […]
Posted 8 years ago
Hemel Hempstead manufacturer fined £1m following worker’s death
Health and Safety Executive Press Releases 2015
A manufacturing company based in Hemel Hempstead has been fined £1million after a worker was crushed to death by falling machinery. Colin Reddish, 48, from Lincolnshire was involved in moving a large CNC milling machine within the company’s Grantham factory on 30th April 2015 when it overturned and killed him. The machine had been lifted […]
Posted 8 years ago
Construction company fined £800,000 after worker injured
Health and Safety Executive Press Releases 2015
A Surrey construction company has been fined after a contractor was run over on a large site in Wokingham. David Cole was a site foreman on the large housing development project, which started in April 2013 and has a completion date of April 2017. He was struck by and pulled under a large bulk powder […]
Posted 8 years ago
Two scaffolders receive suspended prison sentence following workers death
Health and Safety Executive Press Releases 2015
Two scaffolders from St Austell, Cornwall have received suspended prison sentences following a death of a worker who fell 7m to his death. Roger Stoddern, 47, was dismantling scaffolding on 24 June 2013, when he fell from a flat roof of a property in St Mawes. He was taken to Derriford Hospital but died three […]
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West Midlands welding firm fined over worker injury
Health and Safety Executive Press Releases 2015
A Bilston engineering company has been sentenced after a worker was injured while operating a drilling machine. Wolverhampton Magistrates’ Court heard that Mr Deimantas Beinoras, a 23-year-old Lithuanian national was injured while working for KV Welding Limited, which manufactures equipment for the material handling and logistics sector. Mr Beinoras was operating a pedestal drilling machine […]
Posted 8 years ago
Manufacturing company fined for safety failings
Health and Safety Executive Press Releases 2015
A manufacturing company based in Somerset has been fined for safety failings Somerset Magistrates’ Court heard how employees at LJH Group Limited were identified as being at increased risk from working with vibrating tools following a fitness for work assessment. An investigation by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) found that the company failed to […]
Posted 8 years ago
Illegal Newquay gas fitter sentenced for undertaking unregistered gaswork
Health and Safety Executive Press Releases 2015
An unregistered gas fitter has been order to complete 250 hours of community service for illegally installing a LPG gas boiler and hob at a Newquay home as well as producing fraudulent documentation. Dean Marshall, aged 47, of Dukes Way, Newquay, installed the gas boiler and gas hob at a property on Chynowen Lane, Newquay […]
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Worker suffers life threatening injuries after drum explodes
Health and Safety Executive Press Releases 2015
A Kent company who supplies road safety products has been fined after a worker suffered life threatening injuries when a drum he was working on exploded. Maidstone Crown Court heard how 41 year old Andrew Foster, an employee of Highway Care Limited was using a plasma cutter to cut up a drum that had previously […]
