A local authority, Tendring District Council, has been fined after a member of public contracted Legionnaires’ Disease following regular use of its leisure centre facilities. Colchester Magistrates’ Court heard how the member of public frequently used the showers at Walton…
Two companies have been fined after a structural engineer received serious crush injuries when a bundle of scaffold tubes weighing about one tonne rolled onto his legs while he was visiting a client’s construction site. Southwark Crown Court was told…
An engineering firm has been fined after a worker suffered a serious head injury whilst assembling a steel frame. On 12 March 2018, a Quantum Engineering Developments Limited employee was injured when a steel frame he was assembling came off…
November was a whirlwind in the world of mental health training, as Heather Beach from The Healthy Work Company explains. The biggest material change over the last few weeks has been HSE announcing a change to the first aid guidance…
A company which manufactures plastic products has been fined for safety breaches after the death of an employee. Leicester Magistrates’ Court heard how, on 15 April 2016, a 52-year-old employee of Nylacast Limited was in the process of removing a…
Pascal Huser Design & Build Ltd, a residential property development company, has been fined after failing to carry out an asbestos survey prior to undertaking extensive refurbishment works. Westminster Magistrates’ Court was told how, on and before 6 December 2017,…
The London Underground and Balfour Beatty Rail must pay fines totaling £433,000 after a track worker was struck by a road rail vehicle (RRV) and sustained life-changing crush injuries to his pelvis. The Office of Rail and Road (ORR) investigation…
A former gas engineer has been sentenced after conducting gas work he was no longer registered or competent to do and leaving it in a dangerous condition. Scott Lowry, who previously traded as S J Lowry Plumbing and Heating, undertook…
The Whiterose Scaffolding employee’s internal injuries were so severe that he now lives with chronic pain and has significant mobility problems. The Leeds-based company, which notes on its website that it employs “a dedicated team of CSCS (Construction Skills Certification…
A construction company has been fined after a chauffeur fell to his death at a concealed basement void in a domestic property that was undergoing building work. Mr Bala Singh Koranga, a visitor to the house and not associated with…
