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Posted 9 years ago
Family firm fined after worker broke back in roof fall
Health and Safety Executive Press Releases 2015
A family-run company in Birmingham that specialises in removing asbestos from buildings has been fined after an employee broke his back when he fell through a fragile roof. The 58-year-old man, from Yardley, fractured two vertebrae when he fell three metres through the roof of a garage at Warndon, Worcester, on 29 January 2014. He […]
Posted 9 years ago
Telford engineering firm fined after worker suffers crush injuries
Health and Safety Executive Press Releases 2015
A lifting company based in Telford has been fined after a beam weighing two tonnes fell onto an employee causing severe injuries. The incident on 21 August 2014 occurred at Pelloby Engineering Limited’s site at Halesfield 19, Telford. A team of two employees were working in the company’s ‘finishing shop’ moving a seven metre long […]
Posted 9 years ago
Haulage firm fined after driver injured
Health and Safety Executive Press Releases 2015
A Bedfordshire haulage contractor has been sentenced for safety failings after a driver suffered serious injuries when he was catapulted from a powered access platform as he was unloading it from a heavy goods vehicle. The driver was employed by RC Robinson Haulage Ltd, which had been contracted by a platform hire company to transport […]
Posted 9 years ago
Builder charged as worker seriously injured in fall through roof
Health and Safety Executive Press Releases 2015
Builder James Brown has been fined after health and safety breaches led to a worker being seriously injured after he fell through a roof he was working on at Hoskinshire Farm, Out Rawcliffe, Preston. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) today (10 June) successfully prosecuted James Brown at Blackpool Magistrates’ Court. Paul Rawlinson aged 37 […]
Posted 9 years ago
Construction firm sentenced over ‘life changing’ fall
Health and Safety Executive Press Releases 2015
A Construction company has been sentenced after pleading guilty to safety failings after a 55 year old employee fell through a skylight roof. Southwark Crown Court heard that Armenian national, Petros Pogosyan fell through a skylight from a unit roof on a London industrial estate while working for Race Interiors Ltd on 18 January 2013. […]
Posted 9 years ago
Agriculture firm fined after two workers injured by reversing vehicles
Health and Safety Executive Press Releases 2015
AB Agri Limited has been fined after two people were injured when they were struck by a reversing heavy goods vehicle at the company’s Northallerton site. Michael Armitage and Simon Manock were not directly employed by the company but were visiting the site undertaking plant installation work when the incident happened on 24 February 2014. […]
