23 August 2010
A Tyneside company must pay an £8,000 fine after a worker's hand
was badly injured when it was caught between two rotating metal
rollers.
North Tyneside Magistrates' Court was told how Gary B...
02 August 2010
The Office of Rail Regulation has said it is considering whether
to recommend prosecuting Network Rail in light of the jury's
verdict from the Potters Bar rail crash inquest.
Network Rail failed to...
30 July 2010
A building firm has been ordered to pay nearly
£15,000 after inspectors found employees working at height were not
protected from falling off buildings.
A Health and Safety Executive (HSE) in...
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...
01 June 2010
An investigation into one of the UK's worst
rail disasters has been launched after an eight-year delay.
The inquest into the Potters Bar derailment,
which killed seven people in May 2002, was opene...
30 April 2010
A new streamlined claims process will see road crash victims
receive compensation much quicker following an accident.
It is hoped the new system will halve the time it takes to
settle a personal in...
15 April 2010
A recovery vehicle driver from Oldham has received more than
£20,000 compensation after he was wrongly diagnosed as having
epilepsy following a 10 ft fall from a lorry.
David Walker, 35, slip...
23 March 2010
A painter being left brain damaged after he apparently fell from
a ladder has resulted in two company directors having criminal
records and fines of £1,000 each.
Trevor Dawson, 58, from Raven...
22 March 2010
A Sheffield engineering company was completely to blame for an
accident which left an employee blinded and paralysed down his left
side, the High Court has ruled.
Mark Downs, from Eckington, Derbys...