24 November Construction Safety Electrical Cable cut through Construction Safety Electrical Cable cut through – a worker survives after cutting through a live mains cable. A construction company has been fined £2,000 and made to pay £980 in fees after they were found guilty of failing to identify live mains cables under the CDM regulations 2007. The company was clearing the site to … Read More
24 November Work at height – College fined Work at height – a college was fined after contributing to life-long injuries to one of its employees. A college specialising in Health and Safety teaching was found to have failed to ensure work at height had been carried out safely – with no risk assessments having been completed on this since moving to a new facility … Read More
24 November Lead poisoning – Scrap metal company fined over lead poisoning Lead poisoning – scrap metal company fined over lead poisoning It was found that a worker who was admitted into hospital was found to have seven times the normal amounts of lead in his system, putting him at high risk of nerve, brain and kidney damage as well as potential infertility. The investigation found that … Read More
24 November Woodworking machine injury, crushes worker’s ankle Wood Working Machine Injury – crushes a worker’s ankle – An employee conducting maintenance on a piece of machinery was trying to flush lubricant through the grease unit on the machine. He had one foot on the floor and the other on a base plate next to a large moving bed. He asked another employee to … Read More
24 November Warehouse Safety Fork Lift Trucks Warehouse Safety Fork Lift Trucks cause injuries and fatalities In this case a worker was crushed to death by an overturning fork lift truck. The accident happened as an employee was driving an unladen fork lift truck down a sloping access. He made a sudden and sharp turn causing the truck to overturn. As it did, … Read More
24 November Warehouse Safety Pallets Warehouse Safety Pallets can cause serious injury. In this case, a falling pallet injures a worker. A long standing employee of a paper warehouse sustained multiple breaks to her leg when poorly stacked pallets of paper collapsed and struck her leg. She still suffers from pain and complications more than five years after the incident. The courts … Read More
24 November Construction Safety – Builder fined when spotted by passing HSE Inspector A builder was fined £2,000 and required to pay £400 in costs for a breach of the Work At Height Regulations 2005 (namely Regulation 6 (3): failing to protect the people he employed). The HSE inspector was passing a property and found two employees on the roof installing a dormer window for a loft conversion. … Read More
17 November Construction Health and Safety – HSE inspections reveal many problems Construction Health and Safety: The HSE is urging the construction industry (as a whole) to do better to ensure that basic health and safety measures are in place. This follows after a month long inspection initiative (22 September to 17 October 2014) that found 40 per cent of sites failing to protect workers properly. Unacceptable … Read More
18 October Corporate Manslaughter – case involving an apprentice A 16-year-old boy died after suffering head injuries after he became trapped in a lathe at a Greater Manchester factory. The 16 year old apprentice (Cameron Minshull) died after the incident at a factory in Huntley Mount Road in Bury in 2013. He started with the Company on 03 December 2012 and the incident that … Read More
23 September Fall from height leaves worker paralysed A Fall from height leaves worker paralysed from waist down Recently, Southwark Crown Court fined a construction company £110,000 and ordered to pay £16,620 in costs following a worker who suffered spinal injuries after falling eight metres through an unguarded window space, leaving him paralysed from the waist down. Read More