Fines totaling £30,000 have been issued following the death of a Salford worker, who was struck by the excavator bucket on a digger.
Category: Prosecution
UK’s biggest food manufacturer fined after worker’s skull crushed
Friday, September 10, 2010
The UK’s biggest food manufacturer has been fined £14,000 after a 65kg metal pillar fell on a maintenance engineer in Merseyside, crushing his skull.
Plumber given suspended jail sentence
Thursday, September 9, 2010
A self-employed plumber has been prosecuted for carrying out illegal work on gas boilers which put the lives of Norwich residents at risk.
Company fined after 17-year-old worker injured in fall
Thursday, September 9, 2010
A Croydon company has been fined after a young worker suffered multiple fractures and internal injuries when he fell through a roof-light after only weeks into his job.
Company fined £33,000 for asbestos breaches at MOD base
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
A subsidiary of one of the world’s largest support service and construction companies potentially exposed Ministry of Defence (MOD) workers to deadly asbestos fibres.
Company fined after worker injured in fall from dock
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
A company was fined a total of £14,000 after a night watchman was injured falling into water from the quayside. The company director has today been fined a total of £2,750 for failing to carry out a risk assessment.
Luton companies ignored warnings on electrical equipment
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Three Luton car repair companies have been fined a total of £4,000 for failing to act on electrical defects in their workshops – exposing their workers to a serious risk of injury.
Council fined after child injured at Tyneside museum
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Newcastle City Council has been fined after a five-year-old girl needed surgery when she was injured by an interactive exhibit at one of its museums.
Dangerously faulty play equipment leads to prosecution
Monday, September 6, 2010
A Prestatyn man has been given an 18 week suspended prison sentence and 60 hours of community service after ignoring a legal order preventing him from issuing safety certificates for inflatable amusements.
Builder fined after hand is disfigured
Friday, September 3, 2010
A Haringey building firm was in court after a worker’s hand was seriously injured in a machine at a workshop in Willesden, Brent.
Worker dies during demolition at boarding school
Friday, September 3, 2010
A Shropshire boarding school has today been fined £25,000 after a worker was killed while demolishing a building on the site.
Firm fined after worker burned
Friday, September 3, 2010
A company has today been fined £10,000 after a worker received 60 per cent burns following an explosion at a Nottingham factory.
Worker’s clothing set alight in electrical explosion
Thursday, September 2, 2010
An Aberdeen building firm has been prosecuted after a joiner’s boiler suit was set on fire when a short circuit caused a localised electrical explosion.
Company fined after two workers severely injured within three months
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
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.
Company and director prosecuted after worker plunges thirty feet
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
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.
Worker is left paralysed after being crushed by steel beam
Friday, August 27, 2010
A Doncaster housing developer was today fined £30,000 after a worker was left paralysed from the chest down when he was crushed by a steel beam weighing more than 660 pounds.
HSE podcast – Agriculture: Royal Welsh Show
Friday, August 27, 2010
Welcome to the August 2010 podcast. In this episode: We visit the Royal Welsh Show to find out what HSE is doing to reduce death and injury in agriculture.
Schoolboy killed after falling through farm roof
Thursday, August 26, 2010
A Moray farming partnership was yesterday (25 August 2010) 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.
Illegal gas fitter fined £8,000
Thursday, August 26, 2010
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.
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