Masher Brothers Limited has been sentenced after a trainee worker suffered life-changing injuries when his hand was caught in a rip saw. On 20 February 2018, a 20-year-old employee was working with a colleague on the rip saw at the…
A building company has been fined after a roof worker fell through an unprotected skylight opening. On 6 June 2018, a self-employed person working for Hamblett Building Services Limited at a site off Waverley Road in Kenilworth was injured when…
A steel company has been fined £1.8m after an explosion killed two men. Celsa pleaded guilty to failing to make a risk assessment before the blast at its Cardiff plant in November 2015. Peter O’Brien, 51, from Llanishen, Cardiff and…
A steel company has been fined £1.8m after an explosion killed two men. Celsa pleaded guilty to failing to make a risk assessment before the blast at its Cardiff plant in November 2015. Peter O’Brien, 51, from Llanishen, Cardiff and…
A packaging manufacturing company has been sentenced after a worker was injured by an automated transfer vehicle. On 5 September 2017, the employee of Saica Pack UK Limited was walking along the factory floor when his leg became trapped between…
A self-employed electrician has been prosecuted after carrying out gas work without being Gas Safe registered. Robert Parker had carried out gas work between March and August 2017 and installed a boiler on 24 October 2017 at a domestic property…
New calculator includes “cautious estimates” for common tools The HSE Hand-Arm Vibration exposure calculator helps estimate and record worker exposure to such vibration and compare the exposures with the actions values in the regulations as part of a hand-arm vibration…
An East Kilbride engineering company has been fined after an employee died following an incident in which he was struck on the head by a wooden bearer in the yard of a fabrication workshop. On 7 September 2017, James Longair,…
A roofing contractor has been fined after an employee fell to his death from a ladder while exiting a scaffold. Aberdeen Sheriff Court was told that on 21 September 2016, Joseph Kane, an employee of Henderson and Aitken Limited, fell…
Two companies, P.D.R. Construction Limited and Metcalfe Roofing & Building Services Limited, have been fined after a worker fell through a fragile mesh roof whilst carrying out work at height. On 21 July 2016, the injured person had been in the…
