Two London companies have been ordered to pay nearly £110,000 in fines and costs after a lorry driver sustained life-changing injuries when he fell down a processing chute at a waste recycling plant.
Category: Workplace transport
Skip firm fined following death of worker
Monday, December 17, 2012
A skip company has been fined for safety breaches at its West Bromwich site where an employee had been killed when he was run over by a 13-tonne shovel loader.
Two north east firms fined after worker suffered serious head injuries
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Two North East firms have been fined after a worker suffered serious head injuries when the fork of a forklift truck struck him on the forehead.
Norfolk company fined for assessment breach
Thursday, December 6, 2012
The owner of a Norfolk aggregate site has been prosecuted for failing to complete a suitable and sufficient risk assessment for moving rail wagons without a locomotive.
Chorley bottling firm in court over forklift injuries
Friday, November 30, 2012
A bottling firm in Chorley has appeared in court after one of its employees was injured while being lifted on the prongs on a forklift truck.
National auto centre fined
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
A well-known autocentre chain has been sentenced for safety failings after a worker was struck by a reversing transit van at its depot in Acocks Green, Birmingham.
Firm fined for worker’s injuries at Caerphilly factory
Monday, November 26, 2012
An employee suffered leg injuries when a reversing forklift truck struck him while working at a cardboard factory.
Driver crushed during Old Trafford demolition
Friday, November 16, 2012
A demolition firm has appeared in court after part of a stand collapsed onto an excavator driver at Old Trafford Cricket Ground.
Mitcham firm fined for rubbish safety
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
A Mitcham rubbish clearance and skip company has been fined for ignoring safety warnings, leaving staff working on a site in Croydon at risk.
Health and safety statistics 2011/12
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Latest release – health and safety statistics 2011/12 presenting the latest top level statistics on work-related ill health, workplace fatalities and injuries, and enforcement in Great Britain.
Worker fined after unstable lorry topples over and injures worker
Friday, October 12, 2012
A worker unloading scaffold materials from a flatbed lorry was thrown from the vehicle and hit by its load of boards and tubes when it overturned a court was told today (12 October).
Council fined after power line collisions endangered lives
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
Council employees, agency workers and passers-by narrowly avoided electrocution or injury on two separate occasions when vehicles collecting recycled material struck overhead power lines, a court heard today.
Stoke trailer firm in court over serious crush injuries
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
A Stoke firm, which designs and manufactures trailers for commercial vehicles, has been sentenced after a worker was seriously injured when he was crushed underneath a lorry when the tuck-away tail-lift closed on him.
Warrington worker struck by forklift at recycling plant
Wednesday, September 5, 2012
A recycling firm, which ignored warnings about safety at its plant in Warrington, has been sentenced after a worker was struck by a forklift truck.
Engineering firm sentenced over severed fingers
Tuesday, September 4, 2012
A Skelmersdale firm which makes outdoor shelters has appeared in court after an employee lost parts of three fingers when his hand became trapped in a forklift truck.
Worker’s death leads to fines
Friday, August 24, 2012
Two companies have been fined after a man was killed when he drove a specialist machine into an unprotected pit in a factory floor.
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