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Granite worktop company fined after failing to carry out safety checks
Mold Magistrates’ Court heard how Grantech Limited was not having regular statutory examinations carried out on lifting equipment and also failed to carry out repairs when defects had been found. A granite worktop manufacturer has been fined after failing to ensure that lifting equipment was examined and maintained to ensure…
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Health and Safety Statistics 2017/18
The Government has today published its report containing the Health and Safety Statistics for 2017/18. You can read the Full Report here (19 Pages).
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Oil giant Marathon has been handed a £1.16m fine over safety failures that caused more than two tonnes of methane gas to escape from a corroded pipe on one of its North Sea platforms. Aberdeen Sheriff Court was told that an eight-inch diameter high pressure pipe in Module 14 of…
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Most of us familiar with some variation of the proverb “he who knows and knows he knows” may recognise at least one person in each of the categories of knowledge described: the expert, the student, the sleepyhead, the fool. Arguably, the most interesting of those types is: “He who knows…
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Farmer must pay £30,000 over death of friend in fall from cowshed roof
A farmer has been ordered to pay a £30,000 court bill after a friend who was working for him died after he fell through a cowshed sky light. Defendant Robert Latham, aged 64, of Knolton Farm at Overton, near Wrexham, admitted a health and safety charge following the tragedy in…
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Women’s Institute banned from baking cakes for sick patients
Women’s Institute members have been banned from baking cakes for ill hospice patients in Leicester, due to health and safety rules. The Leicestershire and Rutland WI has been told has been told by Leicester hospice charity, LOROS, that they can’t accept cakes from the organisation unless the council carries out…
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Liverpool recycler’s £120k fine for plastic bale stack collapse fatality
A Liverpool recycling company must pay £120,000 after an employee was fatally crushed by a falling stack of plastic bales. Paul Andrews was working in the immediate vicinity of the stack at Centriforce Products’ Derby Road site when the free-standing column toppled over on 24 May 2017. The middle and…
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Yorkshire company fined over £1.8m after two workers injured in fall from height
Food manufacturing company, Karro Foods Ltd, has today been sentenced after two workers suffered serious injuries when they fell over 4 metres through a rooflight. Leeds Magistrates’ Court heard how, on 13 April 2016, the two workers were investigating a leak from the roof at the Malton site of Karro…
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Multiple injuries following fall from height
Company fined after worker suffers multiple injuries in fall from height 28th February 2019 1st March 2019 by Natalie Dunn Construction company Rivergate Developments Ltd was sentenced today for safety breaches after worker Nathan Howes fell 2.7 metres through an open stairwell. Leeds Magistrates’ court heard how, on 31 May…
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Apprentice injured on bending machine
Engineering company fined after apprentice injured on bending machine An engineering company has been fined after an apprentice suffered serious hand injuries when he was drawn into machinery. Cannock Magistrates’ Court heard how, on 3 March 2018, the 19-year-old apprentice was forming a piece of sheet metal into a radius…
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