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Business owners have been encouraged ensure that they are using legitimate companies to deal with their waste, after a Nottinghamshire man was prosecuted and fined for storing, treating and disposing of waste on land. A 49-year-old man who operated an illegal waste site at Sunnyside, on Barnby Road, Balderton, Newark, has been fined £840 and…

A roofing contractor has received a suspended sentence after an employee fell approximately 30 feet through a glass skylight on a warehouse roof. Nizamuddin Gorji was engaged to over-clad the existing roof, Preston Crown Court was told. He employed three operatives to carry out the work, which commenced on 13 May 2020. The following day…

An engineering company has been fined after one of its employees suffered scalping injuries when her hair became entangled in a pillar drill. A P&D Engineering Limited employee suffered life changing injuries when her scalp and part of her ear were torn off after her ponytail became wrapped around a rotating drill, Coventry Magistrates’ Court…

A skip hire and waste management company and its managing director have been sentenced after a worker was seriously injured in a transport incident. An employee was crossing the yard on Old Rochester Way, Dartford, while waiting for his Artic lorry to be re-loaded with processed waste when he was hit by a 21-tonne loading…

A vertical farming, glasshouses and energy company has been sentenced after a worker came into contact with an 11kV overhead power line. A subcontractor scaffolding worker was unloading some scaffolding poles near power cables in Willerby, Hull, when one of the poles caught the overhead line. He sustained burns to his leg and foot and was…

Egger (UK) Limited has been fined after a self-employed lorry driver was killed making a routine delivery of recycled wood. Whilst standing on open ground at the rear of the trailer of his articulated vehicle, the driver Kenneth Aitchison was struck by a wheeled shovel loader operating in the yard at their Auchinleck premises in…

WH Malcom Limited, operators of Daventry International Rail Freight Terminal near Rugby, has been fined £6.5m after being found guilty of negligence over the death of an 11-year-old boy in 2017. The company was sentenced at Northampton Crown Court following a prosecution brought by the rail regulator, the Office of Rail and Road (ORR). Harrison…

A roofer and a scaffolder have been sentenced following a fatal fall from height at a two-storey terraced house on Rosevine Road, Wimbledon. Philip Drinkwater and Anthony Bradley were working on the roof, which was accessed using a ladder and scaffolding that had been erected by Dean Glen, Southwark Crown Court heard. Later that day,…

A wood working company and its director have been fined after the HSE found a series of failings and risks associated with significant quantities of asbestos-containing materials within the premises. During an unannounced visit to a workshop on Moravian Road, Bristol, on 10 August 2016, the asbestos insulating board lining the building was found to…