Polski Dzial Contractor Sentenced Following Fatal Crush Injury
A self-employed contractor has been found guilty of health and safety offences after an employee died when the trench he was working in collapsed on him. The contractor had been contracted to construct a drainage field comprising of infiltration pipes laid at the bottom of deep trenches at a farm in Pembrokeshire. He employed two […]
Calls for greater progress in reducing road deaths
Transport safety campaigners are calling on the European Union to accelerate progress in reducing the number of people killed in cars every year in the EU, as new research shows 12,345 car occupants were fatally injured in 2012. The report into trends in car occupant safety, published by the European Transport Safety Council (ETSC), found […]
Recycling sector suffers another work-related fatality
A wood recycling company has been sentenced for serious safety failings after a worker was killed after being struck by a loading vehicle and run over. Raymond Thomas Burns worked as a load inspector for the company at its site in Redcar. He was walking between a wood pile and a skip in the yard […]
Worker may lose lower leg after injury
A Bradford man may need to have his foot and lower leg amputated as a result of a crush injury caused by the safety failures of his employers more than a year ago. The city’s magistrates were told that 51-year-old David Wain suffered serious injuries when a 1.5 tonne pallet of tin plates fell onto […]