newsRoad planing worker suffers life-changing injuries
A ROAD planing contractor in Leicestershire has been fined £92,450 after an employee’s leg became entangled in a road milling machine and had to be amputated.
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newsOffshore firm fined following death of worker
AN OFFSHORE firm has been handed a £267k fine after a long-running HSE investigation found that crewman Jason Thomas was killed when he fell through a missing deck grate and was lost to the North Sea.
newsEgg farm fined after conveyor injury
A POULTRY and egg production company has been convicted after a worker suffered serious nerve damage when his clothing became entangled in conveyor belt machinery at a farm near Banff.
newsWaste firm fined over dangerous skip stockpiling
A WASTE and recycling company in South East London has been fined after Britain’s workplace regulator found multiple failures, including skips being dangerously stockpiled.
newsFirm fined £350k after tank collapse injures worker
A COMPANY has been fined £350k after the catastrophic collapse of a storage tank at its Peterhead premises which left a self-employed worker with life-changing injuries.
newsHSE launches inspection crackdown on stone cutting
THE HEALTH and Safety Executive (HSE) has announced a major package of measures to protect workers from the dangers of engineered stone dust, including silicosis, a deadly-but-preventable lung disease caused by breathing in silica dust released during stone cutting.
newsUniversity fined after employees develop occupational asthma
CARDIFF UNIVERSITY has been fined £280,000 after two employees developed occupational asthma because of exposure to animal allergens in the workplace.
newsCCTV captures tree surgeon’s overhead powerline shock
CCTV SHOWS the dramatic moment a tree surgeon suffered a powerful electric shock from an overhead powerline while carrying out maintenance to hedges on a busy road near Royal Wootton Bassett.
newsWorker seriously injured unblocking machine
A TISSUE manufacturing company has been fined after an employee was seriously injured while clearing a machine blockage at its factory in Blackburn.
newsChemical firm fined £3.8m over workers’ severe burns
INDUSTRIAL CHEMICALS Limited (ICL), a chemical manufacturing company based in Essex, has been fined £3.8 million after two employees at two separate sites suffered serious chemical burns as a result of exposure to sodium hydroxide, known as caustic soda.
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