06/09/2010
Building firm fined £13,000 after joiner catches fire in electrical explosion
An Aberdeen building firm has been prosecuted after a joiner's boilersuit was set on fire when a short circuit caused a localised electrical explosion.
06/09/2010
Fine of £15,000 after worker suffers severe burns
A company has today been fined £10,000 after a worker received 60 per cent burns following an explosion at a Nottingham factory.
The welder from was working for the company, which manufactures industrial bakeware, on 16 December 2008 at its unit in Beeston, Nottingham.
06/09/2010
Boarding school fined £40,000 after worker is killed whilst demolishing a building
A Shropshire boarding school has been fined £25,000 after a worker was killed while demolishing a building on the site.
02/09/2010
Building company & director fined £40,000 after worker falls nearly 30ft
A building company and its director have been fined a total of £30,000 after a worker fell nearly thirty feet from scaffolding at a building site in Llanfairfechan, sustaining severe injuries.
02/09/2010
Firm fined £28,000 after two employees suffer severe injuries within three months
A Troon sawmilling firm has been fined a total of £28,000 after two of its employees were severely injured in separate incidents less than three months apart.
31/08/2010
Lorry driver left with permanent brain damage following
A haulage company was today fined £5,000 after one of its employees suffered brain damage when he was struck on the head by a 290 kilogram panel saw.
31/08/2010
Landlord still breaching regulations despite £3,000 fine
A landlord who has paid £2,000 in fines and £1,000 in costs for failing to maintain his property to a reasonable standard is still falling foul of safety rules.
31/08/2010
Landlord fined £4,500 after tenant dies in house fire
A Birmingham landlord has had to pay £4,500 after failing to maintain smoke alarms at a property he had rented out on a multi-occupancy basis to four tenants, one of whom died in a fire.
31/08/2010
Company directors prosecuted after mans fingers crushed by hydraulic press
Two Leeds-based company directors have been prosecuted after an employee had his fingers crushed in a hydraulic press. The 57-year-old worker, who asked not be named, had the ends of two fingers severed in the incident in April 2009 at a metal fabricating company formerly owned by the directors.
31/08/2010
Schoolboy dies after falling through farm roof
A Moray farming partnership has been fined £13,500 at Elgin Sheriff Court following an incident where a 13-year-old boy fell through the roof of a farm building and sustained serious injuries from which he later died.
31/08/2010
Gas fitter fined £8,000 for working illegally
A workman who falsely claimed to be a registered gas engineer has been fined £8,000 after installing gas appliances at an address in Hackney.
25/08/2010
Four tonne load crashes down beside college, company fined over £30,000
A company has been fined after the hook broke off a tower crane and its four tonne load crashed 36 metres to the ground, narrowly missing a footpath.
25/08/2010
£125,000 fines for two companies after worker falls over 20 metres
Two UK construction companies have today been fined a total of £125,000 after a worker was seriously injured when he fell 21 metres from a hospital building under construction in Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
25/08/2010
Company fined after worker loses finger in roller shutter
A Tyneside firm has today been fined £8,000 after a worker's hand was badly injured when it was drawn between two rotating metal rollers.
25/08/2010
Building firm fined £3,200 after disturbing asbestos in primary school
A Solihull building firm has been fined £1,000 after failing to take precautions against asbestos while working at a school.
25/08/2010
Company fined £21,000 after worker is impaled on steel cable
A Workington company has been fined £15,000 after a steel cable shot through a worker's leg, leaving him with a hole through his shin.
18/08/2010
Cornish vineyard owner crushed after load falls from lorry
The owner of a Cornish vineyard died after a delivery of empty wine bottles crashed onto him when they fell from the tail lift of a lorry he was helping to unload.
18/08/2010
Two companies fined after 44 tonne machine falls onto main road
Two construction companies have been prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) after a 44 tonne machine crashed onto a busy main road in Hull.
17/08/2010
Quarry fitter crushed to death after digger rolls on top of him
An Aberdeen-based quarrying company has been fined £96,000 after a man was crushed to death while working beneath a mechanical digger.
11/08/2010
Teenager pleads guilty to burning down supermarket
A teenager has admitted starting a fire which destroyed a supermarket in Hampshire last month. The 19-year old from pleaded guilty to two counts of arson, by setting fire to bread crates at the rear of the store. He is due to be sentenced at Portsmouth Crown Court on 20 August.
11/08/2010
Firm prosecuted for unlicensed asbestos work
A Pontypool building firm carried out unlicensed asbestos removal despite being warned that materials they were handling contained the potentially lethal substance.
11/08/2010
Fire Safety warning issued to Brighton landlords
Managers of purpose-built blocks of flats in Brighton have been urged to ensure their buildings meet fire safety legislation and standards, following a “spate” of fires in the city since April.
11/08/2010
Workshop burns down on heritage railway
A large workshop and rolling stock have been severely damaged in a fire on a heritage railway line in Hampshire.
02/08/2010
Architect and construction firms fined after worker dies from nine metre fall
An architect's practice and a construction company involved in a Somerset development have today been fined a total of £195,000 following a fatality on the site.
26/07/2010
International food supplier fined £13,500 after workers finger is amputated
A Lincolnshire-based frozen food supplier has been fined after a man's finger was amputated when his hand was crushed at work. The incident occurred at the company’s site in Boston on 10 February 2009 when the worker tried to straighten some boxes on an automatic palletising machine.
26/07/2010
Fast food chain ordered to pay £19,000 for “appalling and unacceptable” Food Hygiene offences
An international Fast Food Chain has been ordered to pay nearly £19,000 after Westminster environmental health officers found ‘appalling’ standards of hygiene in its London Leicester Square branch.
26/07/2010
Failing to act on a food hygiene notice lands owner with £2,175 bill
A Warwickshire takeaway owner who admitted 20 food hygiene charges has been ordered to pay more than £2,000 after ignoring notices urging improvement.
26/07/2010
Worker loses hand in emery cloth incident; firm fined £17,759 for failing to protect worker
A court has heard how a worker had his hand torn off in an incident while working for a County Durham based company. Details of how the employee lost his hand while working on a metalworking lathe at the firm's premises at the town of Peterlee's South West Industrial Estate were heard at Peterlees Magistrates' Court.
26/07/2010
Restaurant owner fails to appear at court to answer food hygiene charges
A Surrey restaurant owner has been found guilty after failing to appear at court to face two food hygiene charges. The owner of the Chinese restaurant was fined £2,180 in his absence for four offences at Redhill magistrates court, plus a £15 victim surcharge.
26/07/2010
Car firm fined £50,000 after work is struck by robot
A Birmingham automotive firm has been fined after one of its employees was struck by a manufacturing robot, leaving his voice box damaged and almost paralysing him down one side of his body.
26/07/2010
Construction firm fined £18,000 after worker loses lower leg
A Somerset construction firm has been fined £10,000 after a worker's foot was crushed under a paving machine - and he had to have his lower leg amputated.
23/07/2010
Leicestershire restaurant fined £1,750 for poor food hygiene standards
An Indian restaurant with poor food hygiene standards has been prosecuted by Charnwood Borough Council, Leicestershire.
23/07/2010
Company fined £14,000 after mans finger gets amputated in machine
A Staffordshire company appeared in court last week (14 July) after one of its workers had part of a finger amputated while working on a rubber conveying machine.
23/07/2010
Farm owner fined £3,000 after employee cuts arm with chainsaw
A Suffolk farmer has been fined after one of his employees cut into his left arm with a chainsaw after being asked to cut back an overgrown hedge despite being given no supervision and no protective clothing to do so.
23/07/2010
Rochdale Manufacturer fined £150,000 after cleaner is crushed to death
A Rochdale plastics manufacturer has been fined £140,000 after a cleaner was crushed to death by a pallet of bags weighing nearly one and a half tonnes.
23/07/2010
Farming company fined £75,000 after worker is crushed to death
A farming and haulage company has been fined £21,000 with £54,000 costs after a 24-year-old agriculture worker was crushed to death on a farm in Norfolk.
23/07/2010
Worker loses fingers in unguarded machine, company fined £10,000
A worker at a Caerphilly company suffered serious injuries after his fingers were severed in an unguarded machine, a court has heard. The company was fined £10,000 in total for it's role in the incident.
23/07/2010
Three men are fined £5,000 after worker falls eight metres
Three men have been fined at total of £5,000 after a worker suffered multiple injuries when he fell eight metres through a barn roof in Greater Manchester.
23/07/2010
Company fined £10,000 after manager is hit by fork lift truck
A portable toilet hire company has been prosecuted for health and safety failings after an employee was struck by a reversing fork-lift truck at its depot.
16/07/2010
Restaurant owner banned from food business and given jail sentence
A Birmingham restaurant owner has been given a suspended jail sentence and banned from running a food business, after Environmental Health Officers (EHO) found live mice in the premises.
08/07/2010
Electrical retailer fined £75,000 following death of contractor
A major electrical retailer has been fined £75,000 following the death of a contractor who fell through a roof light at one of its stores in North Wales.
08/07/2010
Man dragged into harvesting machine
A man suffered severe injuries to his arm after being dragged into a harvesting machine while working at a university.
08/07/2010
Leftover wiring gives child a shock, and a firm a £10,000 fine
An electric shock that burned a three year old boy’s hand has landed a national pub chain with a £10,000 fine.
08/07/2010
Workers injured after falling from work platform.
Two workers were injured after falling from a work platform, which was described as "ridiculous and utterly unacceptable" by a Health & Safety Executive Inspector.
08/07/2010
Director disqualified for four years and three contractors all fined over £45,000 each
The managing director of a steel erection company has been fined £45,000.
08/07/2010
Defective goods lift was left unserviced for 15 years
A Nottingham food store has been fined £32,000 after one of its employees was badly injured in a defective lift.
08/07/2010
Company and contractor both fined over £1/4million after person dies in lift
The death of a Polish banker who was crushed when a lift dropped half a floor as she walked out of it has led to a £233,000 fine each for lift manufacturer and a gym chain.
06/07/2010
Business owner and Inspector fined after women are injured on ride
The owner and inspector of a faulty fairground ride have been convicted of health and safety breaches after two women needed hospital treatment after being flung from it.
06/07/2010
Company fined £309,200 after man's head is crushed
A worker who had only been on site for two weeks was killed when his head was crushed between concrete blocks and a metal platform.
06/07/2010
Health & Safety Statistics 2009/2010
The Health & Safety Executive today released new figures released that reveal the number of people killed at work in Britain fell last year (2009/2010) to a record low.
16/06/2010
Contractor fined £45,000 after lift engineer is crushed to death
A Kent-based lift company has been fined following health and safety failings which led to a self-employed lift engineer being crushed to death.
16/06/2010
Retailer fined for selling untraceable caviar and for food hygiene offences
A London retailer has been fined £4,365 for selling caviar of an unknown source as top quality beluga along with food hygiene offences.
16/06/2010
Workers finger severed in mixing machine, food manufacturer fined £7,080
The employers of a man whose hand was severely injured on a poorly-guarded spice mixing machine were sentenced today.
16/06/2010
Security guard dies of carbon monoxide poisoning, firm fined £7,000
A Glasgow-based security firm was fined £7000 following the carbon monoxide poisoning of a man employed as a security guard on a construction site in the city.
16/06/2010
Takeaway owner fined £6,000 for failing food safety standards
A takeaway owner in Staffordshire has been fined £3,500 after failing to put in place adequate procedures to control pests, poor cleaning and failing to protect food from contamination.
16/06/2010
Company fined £210,000 after driver killed at landfill site
The death of a driver at a landfill site in Northamptonshire, led to a waste management and recycling company being fined £210,000.
16/06/2010
Manager fined £3,500 after teenager is injured at work
The manager of a diving company has been fined £2,500 for health and safety breaches that led to a teenager fracturing his ankle at work.
16/06/2010
Restaurant fined £19,610 after causing a salmonella outbreak
A Chinese restaurant has been fined £10,000 after six diners were hospitalised with salmonella food poisoning.
16/06/2010
Butcher fined £6,500 for failing to clean up his act
A butcher who had a history of poor compliance and failed to improve food safety standards despite help from food safety officers has been fined £5,500.
04/06/2010
Multinational steelmaker fined £352,500 after young worker dies
A multinational steelmaker has been fined £240,000 after a lorry driver was crushed to death at its site in Staffordshire.
27/05/2010
Former pub landlord fined £16,000 for fire safety breaches
A former pub landlord has been ordered to pay a total of £16,015 in fines and costs for serious breaches of fire safety law following a prosecution brought by London Fire Brigade.
27/05/2010
Hotel Company fined £36,000 after fire rips through premises
The management company of a Sussex hotel pleaded guilty to five separate charges contravening the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005.
27/05/2010
Two fire fighters die in tower block blaze
The deaths of two fire fighters at a 15-floor tower block in southern England, has sent shockwaves through the fire community and raised further concerns over risk management in high-rise residential buildings in the UK.
27/05/2010
Leicester hotel fined more than £41,000 for fire safety failings
A hotel and its manager have been ordered to pay more than £41,000 over a string of safety failings discovered after a fire.
24/05/2010
HSE launch new Woodworking website
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has recently launched a newly redesigned website for workers in the woodworking sector.
24/05/2010
College and contractor fined after window cleaner falls
A Lincolnshire college has recently been fined £1,500 after a window cleaner fell four metres - suffering broken ribs and a serious back injury.
24/05/2010
Shropshire company fined £102,500 after worker suffers serious head injuries
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has prosecuted a Telford confectionery company after a worker's head was hit with a one tonne force.
24/05/2010
HSE launches gas safety site for landlords
All the information landlords need to meet their legal duties on domestic gas is now available in one place with the launch of a new website.
24/05/2010
Landlord jailed for two and a half years after tenant suffers severe burns in fire
A landlord has been jailed for two and a half years after pleading guilty to a number of fire safety, health and safety and gas safety offences at Norwich Crown Court.
20/04/2010
Chemical company fined £22,400 after worker is burned by chemicals
A multi-national chemical company has been fined £13,485 after a worker's neck and shoulders were scalded at its Wirral factory.
20/04/2010
International company fined £16,730 after worker is run over by forklift
An international metal-processing company has been fined £12,500 after one of its workers was run over by a forklift truck in Bolton.
20/04/2010
Scrapmerchant fined £257,500 after lorry driver crushed by scrap
The owners of a scrap metal yard have been fined after a lorry driver died when a crushed car fell from a scrapheap.
19/04/2010
Company fined £2,795 after worker injures finger in machine
A Lincolnshire pet food firm has been fined £1,250 and ordered to pay costs of £1,545 after one of its machines damaged a worker's hand.
19/04/2010
Hotel fined £19,800 for fire safety breaches
A Surrey hotel with no working fire alarm and disabled self-closures on fire doors has been fined £15,000 and ordered to pay costs of £4,800.
19/04/2010
Welsh firm fined after employee falls through skylight
A Welsh cladding firm has been fined after an employee fell through an open skylight at a retail unit he was working on.
19/04/2010
Bread manufacturer fined £10,570 after worker breaks wrist
A speciality bread manufacturer has been fined after a worker become entangled in a bagel forming machine and broke his wrist.
19/04/2010
Council fined £12,500 after worker suffers high voltage shock
A high voltage shock that endangered the life of a lorry driver and exploded the tyres of a tipper truck has today resulted in a £10,500 fine for Leeds City Council.
19/04/2010
Company fined £148,795 after worker dies from fall
A Gateshead building firm has today been fined £100,000 after one of its employees fell to his death while dismantling an airport hangar roof.
19/04/2010
Company fined £13,836 after worker falls through failed guard rail
A Black Country waste management firm has been fined £12,000 after a guard-rail gave way.
06/04/2010
Warning to users of telehandlers
Workers and employers are being warned not to operate telehandlers if the right-hand side window is missing or broken, following a fatal incident.
06/04/2010
Business owner fined for not having employee liability insurance
A Northumberland fruit shop owner has been fined for not having compulsory insurance to cover injury claims by employees.
06/04/2010
Landlords fined £19,000 after mother and daughter suffer carbon monoxide poisoning
Two landlords and a gas service engineer have been fined a total of £19,000 after risking the lives of a mother and her six-year-old daughter.
06/04/2010
East Yorkshire building company fined after worker run over by digger
An East Yorkshire building company has been prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) after a construction worker suffered serous injuries when he was run over by a digger.
06/04/2010
Employer fined £20,000 after worker dies
A West Kent construction employer has been found guilty of health and safety breaches following the death of an employee.
06/04/2010
Builder fined after employees fall from platform
A builder has been fined after two of his employees fell from the upstairs of a building when a temporary work platform collapsed above a stairwell.
06/04/2010
£100,000 fine after worker is killed
The brother of a dead factory worker has spoken out today after a company was prosecuted for his death.
06/04/2010
Company and director fined after worker falls to his death
A neon-sign manufacturer and its director have been fined a total of £12,000 after a worker was killed when he fell from the city's Albert Memorial statue.
