A Dorset-based contractor has been fined by a Magistrates Court after it was exposed that he had failed to adequately monitor health and safety on work sites. Mr Anthony Fry had been contracted to carry out work on a farm in Dorset in 2011. This work included building a single dwelling at the farm and […]
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Worker could make personal injury claim after concrete manufacturer’s health and safety failings
A worker at a concrete factory in Ayrshire, Scotland, could claim personal injury against his former employer after he was seriously hurt in a workplace accident. Mr Christopher Fay worked for Hillhouse Precast Concrete Ltd in Mains Road, Beith, before his accident occurred on 18 January 2010. On the day in question Mr Fay was […]
Worker entitled to make claim against employer after he fell eighteen feet from a platform
A South Wales worker could launch a personal injury claim against his employer after he was knocked almost twenty feet from the platform he was standing , suffering serious injuries as a result. A worker could make a claim for personal injury against his employer – an engineering farm – after the fall from height last year. […]
Rochdale firm fined over multiple health and safety warnings
A Rochdale bedding firm has been heavily fined by the Manchester Crown Court after a health and safety investigation found that a number of the machines in its factory were not safe to use. Sartex Quilts and Textiles Ltd was investigated by the Health and Safety Executive (“HSE”) last year on 27 and 28 October […]
Death from skip lorry results in an extremely heavy fine for Sheffield company
A Sheffield-based firm has been heavily fined and ordered to pay substantial costs after one of its workers was killed in a workplace accident. Adis Scaffolding Limited, of Sheffield, was ordered by the Derby Crown Court to pay a substantial fine and the costs of the prosecution after one of its workers was killed by […]
Bolton recycling firm heavily fined after worker crushed between vehicles
A paper manufacturer based in northern England has been heavily fined after one of its workers was seriously injured in an accident. A Bolton-based firm has been heavily fined and ordered to pay substantial costs after the Manchester Crown Court found that it was guilty of seriously breaching health and safety laws, resulting in a […]
Wigan roofing fines suffers heavy fine after worker falls through roof
A Wigan-based roofing firm has been heavily fined after a worker fell through a roof and was seriously hurt. K Pendlebury & Sons Ltd, based in Wigan, found themselves in court this week after one of their employees fell through a school roof, seriously injuring his midriff and right arm. The incident happened on 9 […]
Lost leg leads to large fine for Staffordshire contractor
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 […]
Fine for company after worker loses finger in industrial accident
A Dagenham-based business has been fined and ordered to pay costs after one of its employees lost a finger in an accident at work. An unidentified 39 year-old man from Greenwich, South-East London, was employed as a wood machinist by his employer, K & D Joinery, when the accident happened on 19 November 2010. The […]
Company heavily fined after worker suffers serious injuries in fall from brick kiln
A company has been heavily fined after it breached UK health and safety laws. This case demonstrates that companies should always take health and safety advice and employment law advice from expert professionals. A failure to apply proper health and safety standards in this particular incidence led to serious injuries to an employee. A Cheshire-based company has […]