newsTransport firm fined £500,000 after woman crushed between two lorries
A Cheshire-based transport company has been fined £500,000 after a Hull employee suffered horrific injuries when she was crushed between two lorries.
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newsSouth Yorkshire firm a ‘serial safety offender’
A Rotherham-based metals business has been sentenced after it repeatedly risked workers’ lives by making them use dangerous machines – notching up a shocking 31 enforcement notices for safety breaches in just three months.
newsConstruction firms sentenced after road worker loses arm
Three construction firms have been ordered to pay over £400,000 in fines and costs for serious safety failings, after a worker lost his arm when it became trapped in poorly-guarded machinery during a road surfacing operation in Hertfordshire.
newsHertfordshire manufacturer in court after worker breaks arm in mailing machine
A Hertfordshire packaging company has been fined for safety failings after a worker broke his arm in a poorly guarded mailing machine at a factory in Melbourn.
newsTwo firms fined over ‘life changing’ burns to electricity workers
A specialist technology company and an electrical services firm were fined after two workers suffered serious burns when working on a live electricity distribution board.
newsSteel firm sentenced over North Yorkshire worker’s death
A Sheffield steel company has been sentenced after a catalogue of safety failings led to a 42 year old worker being killed when he was knocked off his lorry and then crushed by a three tonne load of steel tubes.
newsPharmaceutical firm failed to protect worker from hazardous substances
Macfarlan Smith of Wheatfield Road, Edinburgh pleaded guilty to safety failings after an employee was exposed to hazardous substances.
newsSteel firm fined over death at foundry
A steel foundry has been sentenced after a South Yorkshire worker was killed when he was struck in the face by a shard from an abrasive disc that exploded from a hand held grinding machine.
newsFood company fined £170,000 after worker electrocuted
A fresh produce manufacturing company has been fined £170,000 after a worker was killed after coming into contact with a live 240V electrical cable.
newsSteel firm fined over death at foundry
A steel foundry has been sentenced after a South Yorkshire worker was killed when he was struck in the face by a shard from an abrasive disc that exploded from a hand-held grinding machine.
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