Local authority fined for failings that led to injury
SOUTH LANARKSHIRE Council has been fined £90,000 for health and safety failings which left a worker with severe injuries.
SOUTH LANARKSHIRE Council has been fined £90,000 for health and safety failings which left a worker with severe injuries.
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A WELSH company that manufactures kitchen and toilet tissue paper has been fined £1 million after an employee was seriously injured when he was struck in the face by a crane hook.
A LEADING workwear company has been fined £400,000 after an employee had the skin ripped off the palm of her left hand.
A WELSHPOOL manufacturing company has been fined £100,000 after one of its employees partially severed two fingers while trying to find a fault in a machine.
TATA STEEL UK has been fined £120,000 after a worker suffered serious head injuries after being hit in the face with a scaffold pole, causing him to fall backwards.
IN CLONMEL Circuit Court, Judge John Martin handed down a 12 month prison sentence on an employer who had earlier pleaded guilty to charges in breach of the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act 2005 and the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work (General Application) Regulations 2007.
APPEARING AT Coleraine Crown court, Mr Derek Nummy was fined £15,000. In addition a forfeiture order was granted in respect of the JCB loading shovel involved in the incident.
A MANUFACTURING company has been fined after a dad was drawn into a machine and broke his arm in two places.
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