Fine after freight container crushes worker
AIRWORLD AIRLINES Ltd has been fined £82,000 after a freight container weighing nearly 700kg fell on a worker at a warehouse in Hounslow
AIRWORLD AIRLINES Ltd has been fined £82,000 after a freight container weighing nearly 700kg fell on a worker at a warehouse in Hounslow
LITHIUM-ION batteries are light, fast-charging, have a long service life and offer high energy density when compared with other batteries so it is no surprise that they are now found in everything from power tools to mobile phones. They are also the battery of choice for the rapidly expanding electric vehicle market.
A COUNTY Tyrone company was fined £150,000 for failings which resulted in the death of one of its employees at their premises on Killyclogher Road, Omagh.
A CHANGE in lorry speed limits has saved businesses millions of pounds a year and could have helped improve road safety.
A GRAIM store company has been fined following the death of a worker at its site in Linton, Cambridgeshire.
A CONSTRUCTION company has been fined more than £800,000 after a worker suffered three fractured vertebrae when he was hit on the head by a large expanded polystyrene block when it slipped from an excavator bucket.
RFID IS widely used by logistics and distribution companies to track goods, containers or pallets.
A SELF-employed builder has today been given a suspended jail sentence after a three-year-old girl suffered severe head injuries when a length of timber fell on her whilst being hoisted up the outside of a scaffold.
A CONSTRUCTION company has been fined more than £800,000 after a worker suffered three fractured vertebrae when he was hit on the head by a large expanded polystyrene block when it slipped from an excavator bucket.
A WARRINGTON engineering fabrication company has been sentenced after a worker suffered severe crush injuries when a metal frame he was moving toppled from a fork lift truck.
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