newsA 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.
newsA 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.
newsA 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.
newsA TELECOMMUNICATION inspection and maintenance company has been fined after a forklift truck overturned during an unsafe lifting operation which could have exposed several workers to the risk of death or serious personal injury.
newsTHE WORKING conditions and welfare of ASOS and JD warehouse employees have been questioned after the number of emergency service visits in a year was brought to the media’s attention.
productCombilift added yet another industry award to its ever growing tally when its Combi-PPT model won the Safety Category of the FLTA Awards for Excellence 2019.
newsA POTATO processing company has been sentenced for safety breaches after a worker, Colin Smith, was struck by a telehandler load.
newsA CHESHIRE-based woodworking company has been sentenced after a worker was struck by a fork lift truck (FLT) at Woodford Park Industrial Estate, Winsford.
newsA CO. ARMAGH company has been fined £50,000 for failings which resulted in the death of one of its employees at its premises in Lurgan.
productJOSEPH MERRITT Group Plc has announced plans to invest £1.4 million in machinery lifting and transportation equipment as part of an ongoing strategy to expand services across the UK.
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