A Suffolk food manufacturing firm has been heavily fined after a worker suffered serious injuries at work because of health and safety breaches. Mr Attila Czege, 34, was working for Indo European Foods Ltd when the accident happened on 20 September 2012. Mr Czege was working on a production line which was bagging rice when […]
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Two major companies to pay over £100,000 after major blazes in Leeds
Two major companies were sentenced in late July over a major blaze in Leeds that took place in September 2010. The two companies, Northern Gas Networks Operations Ltd and Morgan Sindall (Infrastructure) plc, were found by the Leeds Crown Court to have neglected basic health and safety procedures when installing gas mains during a construction […]
Health and Safety Executive cases last week – a round-up
In this post we’ll take a look at some cases that have appeared on the Health and Safety Executive’s website in the last week. These case are useful as they give an indication as to how employers can avoid breaching health and safety laws and ending up in court. Illegal gas work left Norfolk homes […]
Engineering company heavily fined after breaching health and safety laws
A Scottish company has been heavily fined by the Livingstone Sheriffs Court after it admitted breaching health and safety laws, leading to serious injury to an employee. Mr Kenneth Hunter, 33, was working for Oil States Kaper Ltd at its site in Bathgate when the accident happened in May 2011. Mr Hunter was working at […]
Eight-metre fall for trainee leads to heavy fine for company
A Rickmansworth firm has been heavily fined and ordered to pay the costs of the prosecution after a trainee suffered serious injuries after an accident at work. The accident happened on 3 December 2012 when the trainee was working with his employer, Nature’s Power Limited, fitting a flue liner down a chimney as part of […]
Worker could make claim for personal injury after finger severed in accident
A worker could make a claim for personal injury after one of his fingers was partially severed by a machine in his workplace, leading to the amputation of the finger. A worker whose finger had to be amputated after an accident at work could be entitled to claim personal injury against his employer after the […]
Worker could make personal injury claim after he loses three fingers at work
A worker could make a claim for personal injury after he had three fingers severed at work at least partly due to his employer’s failure to comply with UK health and safety regulations. A 27-year-old man had three fingers completely severed almost down to the palm of his hand when an accident occurred at work […]
Council prosecuted and fined after worker falls through roof
A local authority has been fined by a Sheriff Court after a worker was seriously injured in a fall from height in May 2011. Mr Douglas McGregor, 52, was working for The Moray Council as a labourer when the incident occurred on 27 May 2011. Mr McGregor was working on the removal and replacing of […]
Three firms heavily fined after flying gas canister kills man
Three large firms have been heavily fined after a man was struck and killed by a pressurised gas canister. Three South East firms have been ordered to pay almost £700,000 in fines and costs after a plumber was killed and six other people were seriously injured by dozens of flying gas cylinders. Mr Adam Johnston, […]
Leeds firm ordered to pay substantial fine after death of worker
A Leeds-based firm has been ordered by a court to pay a heavy fine and large costs after a worker died because it failed to properly follow health and safety laws. AETC Ltd, a Leed-based specialist engineering company, was sentenced by the Leeds Crown Court this month after a worker died from serious head injuries. […]