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Posted 9 years ago
Workers injured due to unguarded machinery
Health and Safety Executive Press Releases 2015
A soft furnishings company, has been fined over two incidents of failure to adequately guard machinery. Paul Boomer, trading as Carousel of Castle Industrial Estate, Beresford Street, Failsworth, Manchester, was prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive after it investigated the incidents, both of which led to injuries to workers. In the first, in January […]
Posted 9 years ago
New construction guidance to stop workers dying each week from occupational disease
Health and Safety Executive Press Releases 2015
The construction industry has launched new guidance to encourage better management of occupational health risks. HSE is urging the industry to put an end to the hundreds of construction workers that die of occupational diseases every month. Inspectors issued more than 200 health related enforcement notices during the recent Health and Safety Executive’s (HSE) construction […]
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Worker suffered fatal crush injuries after being hit by lorry
Health and Safety Executive Press Releases 2015
A commercial vehicle company was ordered to pay £212,500 in fines and costs after one of its workers was killed when a lorry travelling at less than 5km/h crushed him. Warwick Crown Court heard Imperial Commercials Limited failed to provide a safe place for its staff to work, failings which led to the death of […]
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Worker suffers loss of eye in explosion while inflating tyre
Health and Safety Executive Press Releases 2015
An Essex-based company which sells and services agricultural machinery has been fined £750,000 after an incident which left a worker permanently blind in one eye. Chelmsford Crown Court heard how the tyre technician, employed by Ernest Doe & Sons Limited at Ulting, near Maldon, was working with a colleague to re-fit and re-inflate the tyres […]
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Chorley dairy bottling plant sentenced over worker’s death
Health and Safety Executive Press Releases 2015
A Chorley farm operating a dairy bottling and processing plant has been fined £75,000 following the death of a worker crushed by an articulated lorry. Paul Davidson, 33, from Adlington, was in the process of coupling an articulated lorry tractor cab to a trailer close to the rear loading bay of J&B Woodcock & Sons […]
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Stone masonry boss failed to protect his workers’ health
Health and Safety Executive Press Releases 2015
The owner of a stone masonry company has been fined for failing to protect the health of his workers, exposing them to preventable risk of suffering life-changing conditions. Working in an industry where health risks from silica and vibration are well-known but manageable the required actions were not taken, despite Thomas Bushby having received previous […]
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Building contractor fined for safety failings
Health and Safety Executive Press Releases 2015
A building company firm has been fined for safety failings after an employee suffered permanent injury to his eye from lack of correct protection. Luton Magistrates’ Court heard how on 15 November 2013 an employee of Steele & Bray Limited, of Northampton, was injured when he was hit in the eye by a shard of […]
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Worker’s fall from scaffold leads to life-changing injuries
Health and Safety Executive Press Releases 2015
A scaffold firm was fined after a worker was seriously injured after falling nine metres. Bristol Magistrates’ Court heard how an employee of Bristol-based Tubular Access Scaffolds Limited was dismantling a scaffold structure when he fell, causing life-changing head injuries. An investigation by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) into the incident, which occurred on […]
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Worker killed by falling power press
Health and Safety Executive Press Releases 2015
A Wrexham firm was fined after a worker was killed when a machine weighing an estimated half a tonne fell on him. Chester Crown Court heard Christopher Williams, a maintenance supervisor at Morgan Technical Ceramics Limited, was moving a power press that was stored in a shipping container in the yard behind the factory. He […]
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Contractor in court for putting workers lives at risk with poor site safety
Health and Safety Executive Press Releases 2015
A Manchester building contractor has been fined after unsafe excavations at a care home site put workers and members of the public at risk. Brierstone Limited was issued with an immediate Prohibition Potice (PN) by an inspector from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) stopping work being carried out within five meters of the excavations. […]
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Building firm fined after worker hit by mobile platform
Health and Safety Executive Press Releases 2015
Construction company Base Build Services Limited has been prosecuted after a worker was injured by a boom type mobile elevated working platform (MEWP) when it fell from the forks of a tele-handler machine. The 31-year-old worker from Birmingham broke his leg and suffered facial injuries in the incident at Abbey Trading Centre, Alvechurch Highway, Redditch […]
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Landlord fined after family suffer carbon monoxide poisoning
Health and Safety Executive Press Releases 2015
A landlord has been fined after a family of five suffered carbon monoxide poisoning at their rented home. North Avon Magistrates’ Court heard that on 30 December 2014, the tenant returned home to Burley Grove, Mangotsfield, and turned on the heating. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) prosecuting told the court he casing for the […]
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Chief Inspector challenges small construction sites to act now to manage workers health and safety
Health and Safety Executive Press Releases 2015
The Health and Safety Executive’s (HSE’s) Chief Inspector of Construction is challenging the refurbishment industry to act now and protect their workers, after 46 per cent of sites fell below standards during a recent inspection initiative. HSE targeted small refurbishment sites during the month long drive and 692 enforcement notices and 983 notifications of contravention […]
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Gas fitter sentenced after exposing family to carbon monoxide
Health and Safety Executive Press Releases 2015
A gas fitter has been sentenced to community payback after his incompetent installation of a new boiler system at a cottage near Montrose put the tenant’s lives in danger. David Stott’s substandard work on the boiler in the rented cottage exposed a visiting family and the tenant’s family to potentially lethal carbon monoxide. Forfar Sheriff […]
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Employee crushed under van during inspection
Health and Safety Executive Press Releases 2015
A contract gardening company has been fined for safety failings that led to a worker sustaining serious crush injuries to his chest. Derby Magistrates’ Court heard how, on 19 June 2014, an employee of A Hydes Limited was seriously injury when a van slipped off a trolley jack and fell onto an employee whilst he […]
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Steel worker left scarred for life
Health and Safety Executive Press Releases 2015
International steel giant Tata has been fined £180,000 after pleading guilty to safety breaches after an employee narrowly escaped death when he was showered in scalding molten metal in a massive explosion at its Rotherham plant. The furnace where the worker was injured The 49-year-old furnace operative, who has asked not to be named, suffered […]
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Illegal gas fitter fined
Health and Safety Executive Press Releases 2015
A self-employed Middleton man was fined for carrying out gas work while not being registered with Gas Safe Register. Paul Gregory of Hollin Lane, Middleton, Manchester installed a boiler at a property in Trent Road, Shaw, Oldham between 8 July and 19 August 2014. Manchester Crown Court, (Minshull Street) heard on 22 September 2015 that […]
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Worker badly burned after digging into electricity cable
Health and Safety Executive Press Releases 2015
A man sustained serious, life-changing injuries after striking a 415v electricity cable during work to refurbish a pharmacy in central London. The labourer struck the underground cable while digging a trench during work to lay a new sewage pipe. After suffering burns to his body and throat, the 41-year-old man is unable to work and […]
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Ladder fall leads to court for Nottingham sub-contractor
Health and Safety Executive Press Releases 2015
A Nottingham sub-contractor has been prosecuted after a worker was injured when he fell from an unsafe ladder. Lincoln Crown Court heard Charanjit Singh had been employed by Hardev Gutheran Singh to carry out refurbishment work at a site in Ark Road, North Somercotes, Louth. On 11 May 2013, Charanjit Singh, 57, was painting metal […]
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Carpenter in court after trainee’s fingers were severed
Health and Safety Executive Press Releases 2015
The owner of a Bedfordshire joinery and carpentry business pleaded guilty to failing to report an accident, where a person had two fingers amputated, which had occurred at his workshop. Alex Defeo, a woodworking trainee, was employed at Fabs Designs’ workshop in Bedford, Bedfordshire, when the incident occurred on 4 December 2012. On Wednesday 4 […]
