The director of a company that developed a commercial unit into student accommodation has been jailed for eight months after illegally removing large quantities of asbestos insulating board (AIB) from the building and exposing unqualified workers to health risks.
By Kerry Reals on 09 April 2024
The Health and Safety Executive for Northern Ireland (HSENI) has reiterated warnings about the dangers of applying emery cloth by hand to automatic lathes, after it fined a County Tyrone-based engineering company £25,000 in relation to serious injuries sustained by an employee.
By Kerry Reals on 07 March 2024
A South Yorkshire-based metal recycling firm has been fined £1.2 million after a skip wagon struck a worker, leaving him with a fractured skull and collar bone.
By Kerry Reals on 03 May 2024
A scrap metal recycling firm has been fined £200,000 after an employee’s arm became entangled in a catalytic sampling machine and later had to be amputated.
By Kerry Reals on 07 March 2024
Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has been fined £480,000 after an employee lost consciousness and suffered a brain injury while unblocking a drain.
By Kerry Reals on 12 January 2024
Building company Stonehurst Estates Ltd has been fined £450,000 and its director has received a suspended prison sentence, following the death of a worker at a development site in Birmingham.
By Kerry Reals on 15 February 2024
Ward Recycling Limited has been fined £2.15 million and found guilty of corporate manslaughter, after an agency worker was run over and killed by a loading shovel at its site in Hartlepool.
By Kerry Reals on 01 February 2024
A company in Leicestershire has been fined £900,000 after a father-of-two was crushed to death.
By Kerry Reals on 09 January 2024
Oil giant Shell has been fined more than £1m after an offshore worker's feet were crushed on a gangway.
By Belinda Liversedge on 04 January 2024
An operations manager at a funfair company has been jailed after a three-year-old girl died playing on a defective trampoline on a Norfolk beach.
By Belinda Liversedge on 30 November 2023
