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Posted 9 years ago
Cleaning company fined for putting workers lives at risk
Health and Safety Executive Press Releases 2015
A Sheffield property and cleaning company was fined for breaching Work at Height regulations. Turbo Property and Cleaning Services Ltd of Wade Street, Sheffield was issued with a Prohibition Notice on 13 November 2014 after an employee was found to be working on a fragile roof with no protection measures in place to prevent them […]
Posted 9 years ago
Company fined after worker entangled in machinery
Health and Safety Executive Press Releases 2015
A shellfish processing company has been fined for safety failings that led to a worker’s hand and arm being entangled in machinery Aberystwyth Magistrates’ Court heard how, in November 2013, an employee of Quay Fresh and Frozen Foods Limited was helping to clean a section of the processing machinery while it was still switched on […]
Posted 9 years ago
HSE at major incident in Cheshire
Health and Safety Executive Press Releases 2015
The Health and Safety Executive has, since Friday, supported the emergency services in their response to a major incident at a mill in Cheshire. HSE teams joined police and rescue services at command centres and have advised on matters including the presence of asbestos and LPG tanks. Yesterday (Saturday), HSE inspectors went to the scene […]
Posted 9 years ago
Businessman in court after worker loses forearm
Health and Safety Executive Press Releases 2015
A Kent businessman has been sentenced after a worker lost his right forearm when it got caught and mangled in an unguarded tyre-shredding machine. Mark Anton Arabaje, sole director of now-dissolved company Cartwright Projects Ltd, was prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) after it found he had removed a protective guard from the […]
Posted 9 years ago
Director sentenced after worker dies on second day of job
Health and Safety Executive Press Releases 2015
A company director was sentenced today after a trench collapse which killed a young father on only his second day at work for his company. Callum Osborne, 24, died when a trench he was digging in Bridgefield Road, Whitstable collapsed in on him. At the time of his death on the 7th April 2011, Mr […]
Posted 9 years ago
Man fined for unregistered gas work
Health and Safety Executive Press Releases 2015
A man running a plumbing and heating company has been fined for safety failings that led to the householder’s gas appliances being put “At Risk”. Birmingham Crown Court heard how John Glover installed gas appliances and arranged for a person to help who was not authorised to do so. John Glover, of Brome Hall Lane, […]
Posted 9 years ago
Company fined after work suffers HAV
Health and Safety Executive Press Releases 2015
A facilities management company has been fined for safety failings that contributed to a worker sustaining Hand Arm Vibration. Nottingham Magistrates’ Court heard how, between 2007 and 2012, an employee of UPP (Broadgate Park) Limited operated mowers, strimmers, and a leaf blower as part of his work for the company, and was regularly exposed to […]
Posted 9 years ago
Employee injures two fingers at packaging company
Health and Safety Executive Press Releases 2015
A packaging company has been fined for safety failings that led to a worker sustaining serious injury to his right hand. Buxton Magistrates’ Court heard how, in October 2013, the employee was cleaning a moving roller on a folder/gluer machine and reached inside. He suffered serious damage to two fingers on his right hand. Hipak […]
Posted 9 years ago
‘A miracle he was not killed’ says judge as logistics firm fined £75,000
Health and Safety Executive Press Releases 2015
A logistics firm was fined £75,000 after a worker suffered life-changing injuries in a fall from a roof. Andrew Bannister, who had worked for PK & IF Cobley Limited for 15 years, was worried about being sent up onto a fragile roof to repair cracks in it, but he was still instructed to do the work. […]
Posted 9 years ago
Roofing contractor and director fined over brick-layer death
Health and Safety Executive Press Releases 2015
A Yorkshire roofing firm and its Director have been prosecuted after a worker fell to his death though a fragile roof-light. Barry Tyson, a 52 year old self-employed brick-layer, suffered fatal head injuries as a result of the fall whilst he was working to refurbish the flat roof of Aspin Park School in Knaresborough. Watershed […]
Posted 9 years ago
Employee injures two fingers at packaging company
Health and Safety Executive Press Releases 2015
A packaging company has been fined for safety failings that led to a worker sustaining serious injury to his right hand. Buxton Magistrates’ Court heard how, in October 2013, the employee was cleaning a moving roller on a folder/gluer machine and reached inside. He suffered serious damage to two fingers on his right hand. Hipak […]
Posted 9 years ago
Brick manufacturer fined after worker injured
Health and Safety Executive Press Releases 2015
A brick manufacturer has been fined after one of its employees was seriously injured. The incident, on 27 February 2014, occurred at Northcot Brick Limited’s site at Station Road, Blockley, Gloucester. Stroud Magistrates’ Court heard that a 45-year-old worker sustained serious injuries to his right leg, with the partial loss of two toes, after either […]
Posted 9 years ago
HSE improved land use planning advice service
Health and Safety Executive Press Releases 2015
A new digital service making it easier and quicker for developers to access land use planning information and advice becomes available today (MON). The Health and Safety Executive is launching the enhanced pre-application service to reduce the amount of red tape involved in the planning process, which will help business take advantage of commercial opportunities […]
Posted 9 years ago
Employee loses two fingers at silver manufacturer
Health and Safety Executive Press Releases 2015
A silver manufacturing company has been fined for safety failings that led to a worker sustaining serious injury to his right hand. An employee of Carrs of Sheffield (Manufacturing) Limited suffered damage to all four fingers on his right hand when it was pulled into an in-running nip. This resulted in his middle two fingers […]
Posted 9 years ago
County Council in court after schoolboy severs finger in class
Health and Safety Executive Press Releases 2015
North Yorkshire County Council has been prosecuted after a 14-year-old boy needed a finger amputated after it got tangled in a lathe during a lesson at Knaresborough’s King James’ School. The pupil, from Knaresborough, was using a polishing cloth by hand on a work piece as it rotated on a manual metal lathe during a […]
Posted 9 years ago
Chutney company sentenced over worker’s hand injury
Health and Safety Executive Press Releases 2015
A Merseyside based food company has been sentenced after a worker sustained injuries to his hand after clearing a sugar dispensing machine at a factory in Berkshire. The employee who wishes not be named suffered a broken and lacerated finger during the incident at English Provender Company Ltd’s site in Thatcham, Berkshire. The Health and […]
Posted 9 years ago
Chutney company sentenced over worker’s hand injury
Health and Safety Executive Press Releases 2015
A Merseyside based food company has been sentenced after a worker sustained injuries to his hand after clearing a sugar dispensing machine at a factory in Berkshire. The employee who wishes not be named suffered a broken and lacerated finger during the incident at English Provender Company Ltd’s site in Thatcham, Berkshire. The Health and […]
Posted 9 years ago
Company fined after worker’s legs crushed
Health and Safety Executive Press Releases 2015
A marine demolition company was fined £42,000 after an incident that resulted in a worker subsequently having his legs amputated. Lee Pownall was trapped by his legs when a section of an old metal barge that he was assisting to dismantle in a dry dock beside the River Thames, in Erith, Kent, fell onto him. […]
Posted 9 years ago
Plumber fined for unregistered work installing boiler
Health and Safety Executive Press Releases 2015
A plumber illegally carried out work to install a gas boiler in a Plymouth home. David Tucker, 41, was not registered with Gas Safe Register when he carried out the work at a property in Glendfield Road, Plymouth, in December 2014. In a prosecution brought by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) today (10 July […]
Posted 9 years ago
Lack of training caused life changing injuries
Health and Safety Executive Press Releases 2015
Essex tree specialist company, Oak View Tree Specialists Limited, has been fined after a skip loading dumper overturned severely injuring a worker. Basildon Magistrates’ Court heard how the injured person, who was an employee at the company, was working at the rear of a house in Benfleet, Essex on 26 September 2014 when the incident […]
