29 August 2010
Magistrates have fined a sheet metal manufacturing firm and its
director £10,000 for failing to ensure the health and safety of its
workers.
Anglia Lead Ltd, of Barker Street, Norwich and dir...
20 August 2010
A worker had to have his entire leg kept in plaster for six
weeks and relied on crutches to walk for four months because of
safety failures by his employer.
In March last year at an ACP (Concrete) ...
17 August 2010
An accident which resulted in a worker being blinded in one eye
and suffering serious injuries has cost his employer £8,000, the
Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has revealed.
The watchdog s...
17 August 2010
A scaffolding firm from Stoke-on-Trent has been fined after one
of its staff had an
accident at work .
Kevin Ford fell five feet from a scaffold he was dismantling at
the end of a job for Raffert...
03 August 2010
A worker at McVities manufacturer United Biscuits lost two of
her fingers in a mixing machine because her employer failed to
ensure her safety.
Magistrates in Halifax were told the
work accident ...
19 July 2010
A leading tyre maker has admitted breaching health and safety
laws after an employee broke his leg in a
work accident.
Pirelli was fined £9,000 and ordered to pay £4,282 costs after
...
19 July 2010
A man had his hand ripped off by a sheet metal lathe in a
work accident in County Durham, a court has been told.
Surgeons stitched the 55-year-old worker's hand back on but he
still has no feeli...
12 July 2010
The death of a man in an accident at work who was
working on a roof without a safety harness was an "waiting to
happen", a judge has said.
Paul Alker died after he fell through a roof at the
Wrexha...
12 July 2010
An engineering company has been hit with a £10,000
bill after a man had four fingers and part of a thumb severed in a
work accident .
He subsequently had three of the fingers
reattached...
07 July 2010
The Association of British Insurers has launched a new voluntary
code of practice relating to so-called third party capture.
The practice is typically used in motor claims where the
insurer's polic...