Polski Dzial Worker Seriously Injured After Lift Pit Fall
A construction company from Cardiff has appeared in court on health and safety charges after a worker was seriously injured falling down a lift pit. The man was a specialist drilling contractor and had been employed by the construction company to help refurbish a care home. As he stepped from some scaffolding onto the ground […]
Waste Company in Court over Worker’s Death
A waste management company has been fined for safety failings after a worker was killed when he was struck by a vehicle at a Watford waste transfer station. Patrick Murphy had worked as a groundsman at the site since 2004 and was struck and run over by a JCB loading shovel as he was clearing […]
Ayrshire Recycling Firm Fined over Worker’s Injury
An Ayrshire waste recycling firm has appeared in Kilmarnock Sheriff Court where it was fined for serious safety failings after an agency worker severed his left arm at the shoulder while clearing a conveyor belt blockage. Steven Dawson, who was 28 at the time of the incident, was separating plastic and paper by hand on […]
Fine for company after workers flee whisky fire
A major scotch whisky manufacturer has been fined after two workers had to flee a warehouse fire. Glasgow Sheriff Court was told at an earlier hearing that two workers were filling casks in a warehouse when the incident happened. After filling four of them, one worker felt the hose he was using relax then heard […]
Gloucestershire firm fined over teenager’s severed fingers
A Gloucestershire manufacturer has appeared in court after a teenage apprentice had parts of two fingers severed in unguarded machinery. The 17-year-old was working at factory in Lydney when the glove on his right hand became caught in a rotating cutter, slicing off the tops of his index and middle fingers to the first joint. […]
New statistics on fatal injuries at work
Recently published figures from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) have shown that 173 workers were killed from April 2011 to March 2012 – a drop of two from the previous year. The rate of fatal injury remains the same at 0.6 per 100,000 workers. The figures also show the rate of fatal injuries in […]
Contractor prosecuted after workers put at risk
An Edgware contractor has been fined after the routine inspection of a construction site discovered dangerous working conditions. Health and Safety Executive (HSE) Inspectors saw contractors working some three metres above ground without measures in place to prevent them from falling. A Prohibition Notice was immediately served on the Principal Contractor, preventing further work at […]
Government must act over new workplace cancer study
The TUC has called for urgent action from the government to deal with the huge death toll from work-related cancer as research is published in the British Journal of Cancer Supplement into the incidence of cancers caused by work. The study was was funded by the Health and Safety Executive, and found that every year […]
Fines imposed following scaffolding fall death
A firm, its director and a supervisor have been sentenced for safety failings after a worker died from injuries sustained in a fall from scaffolding at a construction site in East Sussex. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) prosecuted them for negligence and defects that contributed towards the incident in 2009. Hastings Magistrates’ Court heard […]
Roofing boss fined after worker seriously injured in fall
An Aberdeenshire roofing boss has been fined after one of his workers was seriously injured when he fell five metres from the edge of a flat roof. Mr McNeilly was throwing lead cut-offs onto the ground while standing on the flat roof when he either slipped or inadvertently stepped off the edge. He lost his […]