A Leicestershire based aluminium extrusion company has been fined after an employee suffered serious hand and leg injuries. The employee of Boal UK Limited and four others were carrying out maintenance work to an aluminium extrusion machine. They were placing…
Farming partnership B A L Ackroyd has been sentenced for safety breaches, after a member of the public was killed. On 22 February 2017, the deceased was struck by a telescopic loader being driven by farmer Anthony Ackroyd. The incident…
The University of Edinburgh has been fined for failings which led to animal research workers, who were already sensitised to laboratory animal allergens (LAA), being at risk of suffering from adverse health effects as a result of exposure to LAA.…
Logistics firm DHL has been fined £2.6m following the death of an employee who was killed when a stack of car and lorry tyres collapsed at a warehouse. Robert Baynham, 50, was crushed to death as he worked at an…
Fragile roof dangers not assessed and properly controlled A building and maintenance company has been fined after an employee fell 5m through a fragile rooflight causing life changing head injuries during May 2018 at a motor vehicle repair workshop in…
Construction safety test centre workers have been caught giving answers to candidates for cash. The cheating ring was exposed during counter-fraud raids by CITB, police and the Home Office. Three men involved in the delivery of CITB tests were arrested…
Workman fatally injured when crushed between bucket and wall The employee and director of a construction company has been handed a 10-month custodial sentenced after an employee, Nicholas Hall, was crushed to death by the bucket of an excavator he…
RJW Building Solutions Limited, a contractor carrying out refurbishment work at the Sea Hotel in South Shields, and Hotel 52 (Sea) Limited, the client company who arranged the work, have been sentenced after workers disturbed asbestos. While workers were refurbishing…
A contractor has been sentenced after a carpenter sustained nerve and tissue damage to his lower back after falling through a gap in a safety deck. Luton Magistrates’ Court heard on 2 May 2017, the employee was working for and…
Cemex UK Operations Limited has been fined £1m after a worker suffered fatal injuries when he was struck on the body by a centering machine lifting mast. On 13 May 2017, James Brownlie was carrying out maintenance and repair work…
