newsCompany fined after scaffolding collapsed
A SCAFFOLDING company has been fined after scaffolding collapsed across the entrance to the car park of Coventry Skydome.
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newsFine after worker crushed by plasterboard
THE DIRECTOR of a construction company has been sentenced after a sub-contractor suffered serious injuries when a stack of plasterboards fell on him at a construction site in Thames Ditton, Surrey.
productLightning warning systems ensure safety at mines
EVERY YEAR there are around two recorded explosions at opencast mining operations caused by lightning strikes during blasting activities.
newsNetwork Rail fined £135,000 after boy suffers electric shock
FOLLOWING Office of Rail and Road (ORR) investigation, Scotland’s Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) has prosecuted Network Rail, who were fined £135,000 by Edinburgh Sheriff Court, for failing to maintain and improve the railway fencing near Musselburgh, East Lothian which left a 13-year-old boy with serious injuries.
blogTime to face facts
Carl Waring looks at five accident at work facts that every employer should know.
newsTheme park fined after child seriously injured
LIGHTWATER VALLEY Attractions Ltd has been fined over £333k following an incident where a child was thrown from its Twister ride.
newsFine after overturned truck traps employee
A CONSTRUCTION company was fined after a driver was trapped when a dumper truck overturned at a site in Liskeard, Cornwall.
newsDouble prosecution after construction worker fatally crushed
A COMPANY director and project manager were sentenced after an untrained and unsupervised worker was killed when the forward tipping dumper truck he was operating overturned.
news£850,000 fine after reversing lorry kills traffic marshal
CONSTRUCTION LOGISTICS provider, Wilson James Limited, has been fined following a fatal incident where one of their traffic marshals, Kiril Karadzhov, was fatally injured by a reversing lorry.
newsNetwork Rail fined following ORR investigation
FOLLOWING AN investigation by the Office of Rail and Road (ORR), Scotland’s Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service has prosecuted Network Rail for allowing trains to travel at more than 100mph over a badly storm damaged viaduct.
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