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Posted 9 years ago
Death of young worker leads to court for recycling company
Health and Safety Executive Press Releases 2015
A recycling company in South Devon has been sentenced for serious safety breaches after a worker was killed after likely being thrown from a six-tonne dumper truck. Ben Sewell, 30, from Dartmouth, was found lying on his back on a bank, a few metres behind the overturned dumper, on a sloping dirt track at Dittisham […]
Posted 9 years ago
Recycling company sentenced over worker injury
Health and Safety Executive Press Releases 2015
A company specialising in the recycling of waste plastic was fined today (Friday 12 June 2015) after a worker was injured when he fell from an industrial sized waste bin. Worthing Magistrates court heard that on 17 June 2014, the worker fell approximately 2.5 metres from the top of a large roll on/off waste bin while manually tipping […]
Posted 9 years ago
Pet food firm sentenced for safety failings
Health and Safety Executive Press Releases 2015
A pet food manufacturer has been sentenced today after exposing its employees to chlorine gas during cleaning of equipment at its plant in Nottinghamshire. Nottingham Magistrates’ Court heard employees were further exposed to hydrogen sulphide fumes at the same premises whilst clearing a blockage from another piece of equipment. Sarval Limited, which produces animal feed […]
Posted 9 years ago
Total fined over worker’s burns in molten sulphur
Health and Safety Executive Press Releases 2015
The Total Lindsey Oil Refinery in North Lincolnshire has been fined after a worker suffered serious burns when he stepped into an open manway lid and hit molten sulphur below. Grimsby Magistrates heard (12 June) that tanker driver Jack Vickers, 51, from Immingham, had just finished loading the dangerous substance into the vehicle and was […]
Posted 9 years ago
Safety failings land firm in court
Health and Safety Executive Press Releases 2015
A metal processing company has been fined for safety failings which exposed a worker to a serious risk of injury from a fall. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) was sent footage by a member of the public of a young employee fixing a workshop roof without any protection from falls in place. […]
Posted 9 years ago
Hospital trust fined for legionella control failings
Health and Safety Executive Press Releases 2015
Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has been fined £50,000 for failing to control legionella. The Trust, which runs the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton, was sentenced on 11 June at Lewis Crown Court after a joint investigation by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) and Sussex Police identified a history of […]
Posted 9 years ago
Dudley company director prosecuted for illegal gas work
Health and Safety Executive Press Releases 2015
A company director from Dudley has been sentenced for carrying out illegal gas work on a property in Kingswinford putting the lives of the owners at risk. Ross Kitson, a director of Kitsongas Limited, was prosecuted after an investigation by the Health & Safety Executive (HSE) found he had carried out work on gas appliances […]
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. […]
