A Staffordshire contractor has been heavily fined after a worker was severely injured by a cement mixer last year. A Staffordshire contractor has been found guilty of a breach of health and safety law and heavily fined after one of the workers he was responsible for injured his leg so badly in September 2012 that […]
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Company hit with massive fine after death of temporary worker
An internationally-renowned company has been heavily fined after a temporary worker was crushed to death at work. Mr Linas Mataitis started work for European Metal Recycling Ltd in May 2010 and worked as a labourer until the incident occurred on 18 July 2010. On the 18th July he was assisting in the shut-down cleanup for […]
What are economic torts?
Employment law litigation normally involves some form of breach of a statutory duty or a breach of a contractual obligation that has resulted in some form of harm being suffered by the victim or a loss of earnings. However, there is another area that is hardly ever touched upon – common law economic torts. There […]
Health and safety breach in Gloucestershire leads to severed finger and fine
A Gloucestershire paper and the Health and Safety Executive are reporting that a Gloucester-shire based industrial company has been fined £4,000 after a nasty-sounding accident in its Lydney factory. The Albany Engineering Company Ltd, set up in 1900, owns the industrial factory in Lydney, which produces industrial pumps. To produce the pumps the factory uses […]