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A contractor and scaffolding firm must pay almost £63,000 after a subcontracted worker plunged 5 m through poorly erected scaffolding after the roof’s edge protection gave way. Jhanade Ryan was installing solar panels on the roof of roofing and cladding sheeting…

A design and manufacturing company has been fined after an employee carrying out soldering works developed occupational asthma. Basingstoke Magistrates’ Court heard that when the employee joined the company in 1975 there was no extraction system in place. Approximately 15-20…

A farming company has been fined after a worker fell three metres from a silage clamp onto a concrete floor. Stewart, a contract herdsman for Evercreech Park Farms Ltd, fractured two vertebrae in his neck and back, suffered nerve damage…

The partners of a Suffolk based farm have been sentenced after a haulage contractor was electrocuted to death when his vehicle struck an overhead power line. On 30 August 2016, Mr Christopher Wilson was killed when his tipping trailer was…

Asbestos pipe lagging worked on without licence and proper precautions Two men have sentenced after removing asbestos pipe lagging without taking the necessary precautions to reduce exposure to asbestos at a residential property in County Durham during June and July…