Explosion costs contractor GBP 23,700 - October 27, 2008

A contractor has been fined £15,000 after an accident in which an employee suffered injuries and damage to his hearing.

Galliford Try Construction will also pay £8,788 after a worker was injured by the explosion of an inflatable pipe [read more...]

FA North (Carlton) pays GBP 10,500 after breaches - October 23, 2008

A woodworking firm has been fined £6,000 after an accident in which a lack of safety training cost a worker two fingers and part of his thumb.

FA North (Carlton) will also pay £4,678 in costs after pleading [read more...]

Firm fined GBP 300,000 after electrician's accident - October 23, 2008

A Scottish company has been fined £300,000 after the death of one of its workers in an accident involving live electric cables.

Mitie Engineering Services (Edinburgh) was issued the charge after being found guilty of breaches of the [read more...]

HSE will not prosecute over crane collapse - October 21, 2008

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has decided not to prosecute over the death of a worker in a crane collapse at the beginning of last year.

Zbigniew Swirzynski was killed when a slew ring bolt failed, causing the [read more...]

Firms fined GBP 44,500 over working at height accident - October 21, 2008

Two firms have been fined a combined total of £44,500 after an accident occurred involving an employee working at height.

Both companies were found guilty of breaching the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974.

TJ [read more...]

Surveyor pays GBP 39,000 for asbestos oversight - October 20, 2008

A company has been fined £18,000 after failing to identify asbestos in a school it was surveying.

Normandie Analytical Services will also pay £21,000 in costs after its breaches of the Health and Safety at Work Act [read more...]

Firm fined after accident costs worker a finger - October 17, 2008

A business has been fined £4,000 after an employee lost a finger due to its health and safety breaches.

Wilkin and Sons will also pay £2,855 in costs after pleading guilty to infringements of these obligations, as well as [read more...]

JCB accident 'could and should have been prevented' - October 14, 2008

An accident on a site at Daylesford Organic Farm which cost an employee his life "could and should have been prevented", a lawyer claims.

Worker Anthony Cripps died after falling from the bucket of a JCB he was riding [read more...]

Lifting accident leads to £1.2m in fines - October 10, 2008

Two companies have been fined a combined £1.2 million after an accident cost an employee his life and left another injured.

Aker Kvaerner Offshore and Talisman Energy UK will each pay £600,000 for their health and safety [read more...]

Council pays GBP 22,000 over theatre fall - October 10, 2008

A theatre's owner has been fined £45,000 after an accident in which a teacher fell down a broken lift shaft.

Carmarthenshire county council also paid costs of £7,712 and a victim surcharge of £15 after the accident.

The [read more...]