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 […]
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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, […]
Birmingham builders prosecuted by HSE after asbestos failings
Two Birmingham-based builders have been successfully prosecuted after they seriously breached health and safety regulations. The two self-employed builders, Mr Harnek Ram and Mr Gulzar Singh, were prosecuted by the HSE after they illegally removed and broke up asbestos panels outside a home in Handsworth, exposing the homeowners and themselves to asbestos. The builders were […]
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. […]
Bradford Council fined after worker falls 35 feet from cherry-picker
A Council in the north of England has been fined and ordered to pay the prosecution’s costs after a worker nearly died in a fall last year. Bradford Council appeared in front of the Bradford Magistrates’ Court last month after a worker was extremely seriously injured in a fall from a cherry picker because of […]
Newport Council fined for allowing contractor to carry out work on boiler
A Welsh local authority has been heavily fined by a Magistrates Court after it allowed a contractor to perform work when it had not properly checked his competence to do so. Newport City Council have got into hot water with the law after it engaged a contractor in 2010 to carry out work on a […]