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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
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.
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.
02/09/2010
Building company & director fined £40,000 after worker falls nearly 30ft
The welder from was working for the company, which manufactures industrial bakeware, on 16 December 2008 at its unit in Beeston, Nottingham.
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
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
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.
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
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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 £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.
17/06/2010
High street retailer loses appeal against a record £400,000 fine for Fire Safety breaches
A major high street retailers appeal against its record £400,000 fine for fire safety breaches at its Oxford Street store was dismissed last week (Thursday 17th), with the Court of Appeal saying the fine was not excessive in view of the company’s “lamentable” performance of fire safety duties.
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
£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.
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.
10/03/2010
Company fined £33,300 after worker was almost crushed to death
A lorry-trailer building company in Manchester has been fined after a worker was seriously crushed by more than two tonnes of metal.
10/03/2010
Building firm fined £8,100 after worker is trapped in trench for two hours
A building firm has been fined £5,000 after a worker was injured and trapped for more than two hours when the trench he was in collapsed.
22/02/2010
Illegal gas fitter prosecuted and fined £3,000
A bogus gas fitter from Manchester has been prosecuted after being caught illegally carrying work out at a property in Grimsby.
08/02/2010
Bolton company fined after builder falls to death
A Bolton house-building company has today been fined £7,500 after one of its workers fell to his death.
01/02/2010
Care home fined £145,000 after scalding disabled teenager
A care home provider has been fined £100,000 with costs of £45,000 after a disabled teenager was lowered into a bath of scalding water and died from her injuries.
01/02/2010
Aviation company fined £11,500 after work falls from plane
A Southend-based company has been prosecuted after an aircraft painter was severely injured in a fall - leaving him unable to work for more than two years.
27/01/2010
Leicester haulage firm fined £9,900 for illegally storing aerosols
A Leicester haulage company has been prosecuted for creating a massive fire risk by illegally storing huge quantities of highly flammable aerosols.
26/01/2010
Builder fined £10,000 for dangerous scaffolding
A builder whose negligence put his employees and sub-contractors at risk has been fined £8,000 and ordered to pay £2,244 costs for using unsafe scaffolding.
25/01/2010
Construction company fined £4,500 after forklift overturns
A construction company from Gateshead has today been ordered to pay £4,500 after one of its workers was seriously injured when a forklift truck telehandler he was operating overturned.
22/01/2010
Plastics company fined £5,000 after worker loses fingers
A plastics-recycling company in Liverpool has been fined £2,500 after a worker had four fingers cut off by a guillotine.
13/01/2010
Bus firm fined £400,000 after driver dies in overcrowded garage
A bus firm has been fined £400,000 after a driver was crushed to death between two buses in a garage that was housing almost twice as many vehicles as it was designed to accommodate.
12/01/2010
Man paralysed below the waist after accident in an Oil Refinery
Three companies have been fined a total of £280,000 after a man was paralysed below the waist whilst working at an oil refinery in Cheshire.
21/12/2009
Manufacturer fined after employee falls from height
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) recently prosecuted a major food manufacturer for breaching Regulation 4(1) of the Work at Height Regulations 2005. The company pleaded guilty and was fined £1,000 and ordered to pay costs of £2,500.
20/12/2009
Company prosecuted after a man is pulled into a lathe
Employee's hands become caught while polishing a metal component on a lathe.
19/12/2009
Company fined after man is crushed in scrap yard
The death of a man who was crushed by a scrap yard grab claw has prompted a prosecution by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), resulting in a £50,000 fine.
18/12/2009
Sheffield firm fined for breaching scaffolding regulations
Businesses should take proper precautions with scaffolding following the successful prosecution recently of a Sheffield firm that ignored important advice and enforcement action by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE).
17/12/2009
Garage fined after employee is crushed under a lorry
A vehicle repair centre in Kettering has been fined £40,000 and ordered to pay £25,000 costs after an employee was crushed to death underneath a 24-tonne lorry.
16/12/2009
Company fined for exposing employees to metalworking fluid
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has warned employers who work with metalworking fluids to ensure they take the appropriate safety precautions after an entire workforce at a Barnsley company were exposed to metalworking fluid mist.
15/12/2009
Company fined after schoolgirl is killed
A company was recently fined after being convicted of failing to provide and maintain a suitable barrier around the boundary of a quarry.
30/11/2009
One dead and two seriously injured after scaffolding collapse
Two construction firms involved in a major scaffolding collapse at Milton Keynes have been ordered to pay a fine of £126,000 for their role in the incident which left one man dead and two others seriously injured.
24/11/2009
Businessman fined £60,000
A Northamptonshire businessman has been fined £60,000 after ordering a worker to clean a moving machine which trapped and mangled the workers arm, requiring it to be amputated.
23/11/2009
Papermill worker loses arm
A papermill worker lost his arm despite a century-old piece of legislation designed to protect factory workers.
22/11/2009
Restaurant owner fined £20,000 after ignoring noise abatement order
A restaurant owner has been fined a total of £15,000 after repeatedly ignoring a noise abatement order.
21/11/2009
Pork company fined £14,400 for polluting watercourse
A Lincolnshire pork company has been fined £10,000 for causing the death of more than 100 fish after ammonia escaped into a stream.
19/11/2009
Failure to protect workers from asbestos lands two companies a fine
Two businesses and a company director have been fined after workers in Manchester were exposed to potentially deadly asbestos fibres.
18/11/2009
£5,500 fine after window cleaner falls from roof
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has prosecuted a Lincoln firm after one of its workers fell from a roof, breaking eight ribs and sustaining a back injury.
17/11/2009
Labourer struck on head by steel joist, employer fined £13,230
A plumber has been fined following the death of a labourer in Essex.
16/11/2009
Lifeguard prosecuted after swimmer drowns
A lifeguard who did not notice a father-of-three lifeless at the bottom of a West Midlands swimming pool was recently convicted at Wolverhampton Crown Court.
13/11/2009
Supermarket fined for ignoring staff training - Food safety news item from LRB
The company behind a Sussex supermarket has received an £11,000 fine after ignoring Environmental Health Officers’ (EHO) pleas to provide staff with essential food hygiene training.
12/11/2009
Takeaway owner fined £13,000 for not cleaning up his act
The owner of a takeaway has been fined for trying to clean a kebab grill with the meat still in position. The owner had been warned numerous times by Leeds City Council to improve conditions at the takeaway.
11/11/2009
Mice infestation closes Middlesbrough food store, owner fined £6,000
A food store owner has been fined £6,000 for allowing an infestation of mice to overrun his premises.
04/11/2009
A Midhurst store has been fined £11,000 and made to pay costs of nearly £4000 following breaches of food hygiene legislation.
During a routine food hygiene inspection, Officers of Environmental Health Services found mouldy food for sale within the store.
01/11/2009
£10k fine and banned from operating a food business for rotten food
A Southend restaurant owner has been banned from operating a food business after being caught stocking of out-of-date and rotten food.
01/11/2009
Company directors fined £6,000 for rodent infestation
Two company directors have been fined £3,000 each after Environmental Health Officers discovered a dangerous mice infestation at an Essex pizza restaurant.
30/10/2009
Corn refiner fined £360,000 after worker falls during a crane lifting exercise
A corn refiner has been fined more than a quarter of a million pounds following the death of a contractor working on one of its ships.
30/10/2009
Hand nailed to pallet, builders’ merchant fined £12,000
A builders' merchant based in Herefordshire has been prosecuted after a worker had his hand nailed to a pallet after it was pulled into a machine.
30/10/2009
Forklift driver provided false details and gave a banksman a broken back
A young forklift driver, who falsified details of his training and experience, has received a £500 fine after a banksman suffered a broken back and ankle in an accident at a construction site in October 2007.
30/10/2009
Chicken with maggots? Not a good combination in a butchery
A London butcher’s shop was closed down by Environmental Health Officers (EHO) after a customer found maggots in a piece of chicken.
30/10/2009
Bakery lands in hot water - food safety and hygiene news
A bakery has been fined for failing to ensure it had a hot water supply for washing utensils. When Environmental Health Officers inspected the bakery in Hendon
29/10/2009
Workers loses three fingers, company fined - company guilty of 3 health and safety charges
Machinery workings must be guarded to prevent operatives contacting dangerous parts the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has said.
29/10/2009
Man injured by forklift truck, company fined £7,000
Employee run over and dragged by Forklift Truck without the driver noticing.
28/10/2009
Builder shakes hands with 66,000 volts – Fines of almost £30k for companies and director
The Health and Safety Executive has issued a warning to builders advising them to be extra vigilant when working around overhead power cables after a scaffolder was seriously injured after an accident occurred on a site in Worcestershire.
27/10/2009
Company fined after worker falls from racking at a warehouse in Tipton
A Tipton-based firm has been fined £10,000 for breaching health and safety laws following a worker's fall at a warehouse.
27/10/2009
Teenagers suffer electric shock - £48,000 fine for the farm
Two teenagers suffered electric shocks whilst working on a farm; one had to have his little toe and part of his big toe amputated from his left foot.
26/10/2009
Corn refiner fined £360,000 after worker falls during a crane lifting exercise
A corn refiner has been fined more than a quarter of a million pounds following the death of a contractor working on one of its ships.
26/10/2009
Hand nailed to pallet, builders’ merchant fined £12,000
A builders' merchant based in Herefordshire has been prosecuted after a worker had his hand nailed to a pallet after it was pulled into a machine.
25/10/2009
Companies fined after exposing employees and the general public to Asbestos
Two companies have been prosecuted recently after workers and members of the public were exposed to high levels of asbestos during a removal project.
24/10/2009
Man fractures skull in fall from roof
The HSE recently prosecuted 1st a roofing company, based in West Yorkshire, for three safety breaches over an incident in January this year. A worker fell over 4 metres and sustained serious head injuries.
24/10/2009
Man falls from ride on mower, council fined £35,530
A council employee fell from a ride-on mower in May 2008; he broke two ribs and suffered a compressed lung. His injuries forced to stay off work for 11 weeks and the HSE have prosecuted his employer, Cheltenham Borough Council.
23/10/2009
Fines totalling £191,000 after diver dies in lock.
Following a prosecution that arose from a diving fatality in Gloucestershire in October 2004, the HSE has warned that planning and identifying known risks as well as managing diving when undertaking construction works are all vital.
22/10/2009
Motorcyclist in intensive care after incident at road works
An infrastructure company based in Basingstoke was recently fined £15,000 and ordered to pay costs of £31,139.30, after pleading guilty to a breach of Section 3(1) of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974.
22/10/2009
Inadequate training leads to tower crane collapsing on Hotel - Croydon Park Hotel
A plant hire company based in Kent has recently been prosecuted and fined £100,000 with £33,196.45 costs for breaching regulation 9(2) (b); regulation 9(2) of the Provision and use of work Equipment Regulations 1998 and; section 3(1) of the Health & Safety
21/10/2009
Worker Falls from roof after electric shock - charge under Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974
Worker falls from roof after electric shock. Three companies fined a total of £57,500. Three employers were prosecuted recently after a worker received an electric shock and fell from the roof upon which we was working.
06/10/2009
Safety – From below the ground, up.
HSE is warning building contractors involved in constructing basements to make sure that they plan the work properly and install sufficient temporary supports when excavating the foundations of houses
06/10/2009
Takeaway closed and fined after cockroaches set up camp
A takeaway owner has been fined £13,792 for food safety violations and the business was closed down by environmental health officers...
10/08/2009
Record fine of £345,000 for major oil company
An international oil company has been fined £300,000 and ordered to pay £45,000 costs.
10/08/2009
Director fined for fire safety breaches
A director of a high street fashion chain has been ordered to pay £5,500 in fines and costs after pleading guilty to breaches of fire safety legislation.
10/08/2009
£365,000 fine for a company and contractor after worker killed by forklift truck
Two companies have been prosecuted in relation to an incident at a water treatment works in September 2003. The two companies were sentenced at Manchester Crown Court late June 2009.
10/08/2009
Dairy fined £12,900 after forklift collision
Dairy Firm breaches Regulation 12(1) and Regulation 17(1) of the Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992.
10/08/2009
Firm fined £16,000 for ignoring Health and Safety for eight years
Engineering Company prosecuted by HSE.
10/08/2009
Man loses three fingers in machine, company fined £30,000
Man loses fingers when attempting to repair machine.
10/08/2009
Fife Council and contractor fined £13,700 for failing to manage asbestos properly
Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 breached.
24/07/2009
Manslaughter builder and contractor jailed following death of a young worker
Two men have been jailed following the death of a 15-year-old labourer (Mr AG) who was crushed to death by a wall in Hadley Wood.
21/06/2009
Director Fined £10,000 - Health & Safety Housekeeping Accident
Poor storage kills apprentice, Director fined £10,000
21/06/2009
Business found guilty of multiple H&S Breaches - fined £53,000
Crushed finger costs £53,000 in fines
18/06/2009
Industrial Manufacturer fined £12,000 after worker injured
A container manufacturer in South Wirral, was fined a total of £7,000 and ordered to pay costs of £5,735 at a Magistrates’ Court recently.
