Two firms have been prosecuted after an
accident on a building site resulted in the death of a
construction worker.
Preston Crown Court heard that Peter Walton, from Anchorsholme,
near Blackpool...
A coroner has said she will make a personal recommendation to a
safety watchdog after hearing how a rail worker suffered fatal
injuries while fixing overhead power lines.
Malcolm Slater, 64, from H...
A chicken processing company has been fined £8,000 and ordered
to pay costs of £5,500 after an employee had skin torn from the
back of his hand in an
accident at work .
accident
at wo...
An NHS trust has been fined £12,500 after it emerged that a
worker injured herself on a needle and contracted hepatitis C.
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust admitted breaching
health a...
Hundreds of people who contracted HIV and hepatitis through
contaminated blood transfusions will not receive higher
compensation payments to match those in the Irish republic, the
Government has anno...
Calderdale Royal Hospital management have admitted they are to
blame for the death of a two-year-old boy last year.
The boy's parents told staff their son may have a serious
genetic condition but n...
A pizza manufacturing firm has been fined £15,000 after ignoring
a Health and Safety Executive (HSE) instruction to fix a dangerous
first-floor doorway.
The HSE visited Capri Foods Ltd, based...
A farmer from North Yorkshire has been fined £10,000 following
an accident at work which saw an
employee lose a leg.
Peter Turnbull, a partner in family-run farming firm GR Turnbull
& S...
A high street home furnishing store is facing legal action after
an 83-year-old women died after a fall at a store in Surrey.
DIY giant Homebase has been accused by Andrew Widgery, son of
Margaret,...
A caravan park operator has been fined after a workman fell to
his death in a hay barn near Doncaster.
Clifford Hartley, 59, from Skegness, was reroofing a barn at
Westfield Farm, in Nutwell Lane, ...