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Posted 9 years ago
Quarry Company Fined After Worker Injured Due to Unguarded Drilling Rig
Health and Safety Executive Press Releases 2015
A quarry company has been fined after an employee lost two fingers after coming into contact with a drill fitted to a hydraulic excavator at a dimension stone quarry. The employee was directing the drilling operation while a colleague operated the controls in the excavator, when the employee’s glove became entangled around the rotating drill […]
Posted 9 years ago
Unlicensed company removes asbestos ceiling from Luton school
Health and Safety Executive Press Releases 2015
A construction firm removed an asbestos ceiling in a school despite not being legally approved to do the work. Luton Magistrates’ Court heard that Clarks Construction Limited were contracted by the Board of Governors of Caddington Village School to refurbish changing rooms, toilets and associated areas at the school complex. The school had arranged for […]
Posted 9 years ago
Construction company Director fined after worker’s ladder fall
Health and Safety Executive Press Releases 2015
The director of a construction company has been fined for safety failings after a worker fell from a ladder, resulting in life-changing injuries. Portsmouth Magistrates’ Court heard an employee of MP Jacobs fell from a ladder whilst replacing guttering on a two-storey block of residential flats at Totton Walk, Havant, on 29 October 2014. The […]
Posted 9 years ago
Unlicensed company removes asbestos ceiling from school
Health and Safety Executive Press Releases 2015
A construction firm removed an asbestos ceiling in a school despite not being legally approved to do the work. Luton Magistrates’ Court heard that Clarks Construction Limited were contracted by the Board of Governors of Caddington Village School to refurbish changing rooms, toilets and associated areas at the school complex. The school had arranged for […]
Posted 9 years ago
Waste and recycling centre fined after worker injures hand on conveyor
Health and Safety Executive Press Releases 2015
A waste and recycling centre was fined after a worker was injured after his hand was drawn into an in running nip point on a waste transport conveyor. Preston Magistrates’ Court heard how an employee of Recycling Lives Limited of Preston was working in a waste sorting area, picking waste from a conveyor. During a […]
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Pair fined for illegally installing and commissioning gas boiler
Health and Safety Executive Press Releases 2015
An unregistered gas fitter illegally installed a boiler in a home and got a legitimate gas engineer to sign-off his work. Michael Birch, 50, fitted the boiler at the house in Edgecumbe Road, St Austell in June 2013. After watching a TV documentary on gas installations, the homeowner contacted Gas Safe Register who found the […]
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Demolition firm fined after worker falls from height
Health and Safety Executive Press Releases 2015
A demolition company has been sentenced after pleading guilty to health and safety failings following a worker’s fall from height. The incident happened at the Hillington Industrial Estate in Glasgow on the 30 December 2011, when the 50-year-old worker was carrying out work from a mobile scaffolding platform to enable the building to be demolished. […]
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Caustic burns to worker at food manufacturing company
Health and Safety Executive Press Releases 2015
Food manufacturing company, Princes Ltd was sentenced today for safety breaches after a worker suffered chemical burns. Bradford Magistrates’ Court heard how 41-year-old Mark McLean was working at the company’s Bradford plant when a hose carrying a caustic substance spilt spraying him with the solution. He suffered chemical burns to the left side of his […]
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Plymouth landlord fined for endangering tenants
Health and Safety Executive Press Releases 2015
The landlord of a property in Plymouth risked the lives of his tenants through a dangerous gas boiler installed in the flat. Abdul Manik, 54, was prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) at Plymouth Magistrates following an investigation. HSE began inquiries when Plymouth City Council alerted them to the lack of a gas […]
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Worker struck by tray tipping machine at mushroom farm
Health and Safety Executive Press Releases 2015
A mushroom farm was fined after an employee was injured whilst making an adjustment to an unguarded machine. Worthing Magistrates’ Court heard how an employee of Thakeham Mushrooms Limited of West Sussex, was making an adjustment to the company’s tray tipping line, which is used to empty wooden trays which can weigh up to 400lbs, […]
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Cinema director fined for asbestos management failings
Health and Safety Executive Press Releases 2015
A St Albans cinema director has been fined after he put workers and members of the public at risk of exposure to asbestos. James Hannaway, 68, from Berkhampstead, the sole director of The Alpha Cinema (St Albans) Limited was prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) after he allowed refurbishment of the derelict multiscreen […]
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Pet food manufacturer fined after injury to teenage worker
Health and Safety Executive Press Releases 2015
A Nottinghamshire pet food company has been sentenced after a worker was seriously injured when a forklift truck he was driving overturned. The teenager was employed by Alpha Feeds Limited, which has now changed its name to Grove Pet Foods Limited, as a factory operative at the company’s Grove Road, Retford site. The Health and […]
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Paignton contractor puts lives at risk when a gas flue was removed
Health and Safety Executive Press Releases 2015
A gas flue was removed during a re-roofing contract potentially putting a tenant’s life at risk. Gary Redman, 55, was in control of roofing works above a flat on Marldon Road, Paignton on during March 2014 but during the works the flue to the gas boiler in the flat below was removed, creating the risk […]
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Roofing firm fined after worker injured by machinery
Health and Safety Executive Press Releases 2015
Roofing and insulation firm IKO Plc has been prosecuted after a worker suffered arm injuries from a running auto plant machine. Greame Myers, 48, from Belper, who was self-employed, was lubricating a chain forming part of the auto-plant at Prospect Quarry in Matlock on 2 July 2014 when he reached over a fence at the end […]
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Construction site manager fined for safety failings
Health and Safety Executive Press Releases 2015
A construction site manager was fined for safety failings after a worker was injured while working at height. St Albans Magistrates’ Court heard Edwin Heaney failed to take reasonable care of colleagues while operating a construction site vehicle on a house build site on Loom Lane, Radlett, Hertfordshire. He used an excavator to raise a […]
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Construction firm fined after Worker Suffers Cement Burns
Health and Safety Executive Press Releases 2015
A construction firm was fined after a 54-year-old employee suffered severe cement burns to his knees while laying concrete flooring. Sefton Magistrates’ Court heard that on the 26 November 2014, an employee of DLP Services (Northern) Limited, kneeled in wet concrete to manually finish the concrete flooring being laid in a domestic bungalow. The cement […]
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Roofer killed in fall from height
Health and Safety Executive Press Releases 2015
A Castleford scaffolder has been prosecuted after a worker fell to his death from a roof. Walter Booth (trading as WB Roofing) was carrying out repairs to the roof of Micklegate Methodist Church, Pontefract on 10 January 2015. A Health and Safety Executive (HSE) investigation found the scaffolding edge protection provided by Mr Wayne Morgan […]
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Three workers injured when lowering cable
Health and Safety Executive Press Releases 2015
An electrical services company has been fined after three workers were injured during refurbishment work at a building on Five Ways Island. Birmingham Magistrates’ Court heard the three employees working for Cannock Electrical Services Limited of Staffordshire, were fitting a 95mm thick electrical cable from the 20th floor to the basement of the building. The […]
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Shell UK sentenced over major oil release
Health and Safety Executive Press Releases 2015
Oil and gas production company Shell U.K. Limited, has been sentenced after admitting failures that led to an oil leak in the North Sea. On 10 August 2011 a quantity of oil was spotted on the sea surface in the vicinity of Shell’s Gannet F field, 180 kilometres from Aberdeen. The initial reported surface area […]
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Teesside firm fined after worker’s fatal fall
Health and Safety Executive Press Releases 2015
A north east port has been fined £400,000 following the death of an agency worker who fell eight metres onto the steel deck of ship’s hold at Hartlepool Dock Robert Harrison, 59, from Middlesbrough, was one of six men who were loading 12m long steel pipes into the hold of a vessel at PD Teesport Ltd, […]
