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Cordant Cleaning Limited Employee Killed at Bus Depot

Albin Trstena was working for Cordant Cleaning Limited when he was hit by a reversing bus being driven by a colleague. Albin, 25 from Tottenham was...

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Facilities Managers Sacked After Hospital Elevator Death in Nigeria

Facilities managers at a hospital in Nigeria have been “sacked and blacklisted" after a house officer died in an elevator...

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HSE Releases Latest Workplace Fatality Figures

Health and Safety Executive figures show that 135 workers died in work-related incidents between April 2022 to March 2023, an increase of just over...

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Security Firm Serco Fined £2.25m After Death of Custody Officer

Serco has been fined £2.25 million after several health and safety failures lead to the death of Custody Officer Lorraine...

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HSE Publishes Annual Workplace Fatality Figures

HSE reports show that 123 workers died in work-related accidents from April 2021 to March 2022. 2,544 deaths in 2020 were due to Mesothelioma,...

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EasyJet Passenger Dies at Gatwick Airport After Falling From Escalator

Formal investigations are underway after a passenger disembarking from an easyJet flight at Gatwick Airport’s North Terminal has died. In an...

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Over 60s Account for 30% of Workplace Fatalities

Annual workplace fatality figures from the Health and Safety Executive highlight the risks to older workers, with around 30 per cent of...

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HSE Injury And Ill-Health Statistics Released

October 30 saw the HSE releases the annual injury and ill-health statistics for Great Britain showing that 28.2 million working days were lost due to...

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Maintenance Man Dies In Waterloo Travelator Horror

A man working on a moving walkway at London Waterloo Underground Station has died after he got trapped whilst undertaking early morning maintenance...

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Clancy Docwra Hit With £1 Million Fatality Fine

Clancy Docwra and one of its employees have been sentenced after a worker was struck by an excavator and was killed. The company was fined £1...

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Explosion - Four Dead - Valero Pays £6 Million

Valero Energy UK will have to pay at least £6 million after four people died in an oil explosion. B&A Contracts have also been fined...

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Waste Companies Maim And Kill

A company in the recycling sector has been fined over a manual handling of loads issue and two other firms in the same business have been fined for...

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Veolia Hit With £1m Vehicle Death Fine

The waste and recycling arm of Veolia has been fined £1 million following the death of a worker who was run over by a reversing refuse...

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Air Quality Monitoring - Khan Helps Londoners Breath More Easily

January 15 saw London's Mayor launch the world's largest air quality monitoring network. Breathe London combines state-of-the-art technology...

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Clean Air Strategy - Gove Helps You Breath More Easily

Monday 14 saw Environment Secretary Michael Gove launch the Government's new Clean Air Strategy - setting a long-term target to reduce...

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Death At The Corniche - Structural Engineer Stays Silent

The Structural Engineer on the three Corniche towers where a man was killed by a falling window on Tuesday Oct 2 has refused to comment. The man...

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Horrific Fall From Heron Tower And Other Fatalities

Two people have been arrested on suspicion of murder after a young woman fell from the 13th to the 6th floor of the 36 floor Heron Tower. Two men have...

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Fire Tests Are Utterly Inadequate Says ABI and Which?

New post-Grenfell tests show real-life fires could burn at least 100 degrees hotter - exposing the inadequacy of the laboratory tests currently used...

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Body Found In Canary Wharf Trench

The Metropolitan Police, the London Ambulance Service (LAS), the London Fire Brigade and the Canary Wharf Group have all confirmed that construction...

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Jail Time for Two Construction Killers

A construction manager has been jailed for gross negligence manslaughter, after a workman was crushed to death on a building site. Andrew...

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Jail Time for Cost Cutting Killers. Whitbread in Hot Water Apology

Three company directors were jailed on May 19 following the death of a man who fell while working at a warehouse in Essex. Nikolai Valkov, 63, died...

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Toll Crash Fraudster Jailed. M40 Deaths Driver Released

A man who caused a crash and then blamed it on the other driver and then tried to claim for damages and a personal injury has been jailed for six...

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Crick Institute Brings Death to London

Construction contractor CMF Ltd has been fined after a 31-year-old sub-contractor, Richard Laco, died when working on a large and prestigious...

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Falling Frames Kill Lawyer - Men Convicted

A man has been found guilty of manslaughter by gross negligence after a woman walking past a construction site died when three window frames weighing...

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2015/15 Stats Confirmed - 30.4 Million Working Days Lost

The HSE has confirmed and reported the accident, injury, ill health and fatality statistics for Great Britain. Key figures for Great Britain...

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Convictions - Lack of Basic Care Kills Security Guard

Two security companies have been fined after a security guard died from carbon monoxide poisoning. Javaid Iqbal, a 29 year old father of three, was...

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Memorial Day Tragedy at the Queensferry Crossing

All work at the Queensferry Crossing has been suspended on both the £1.4bn construction project and the educational centre that runs alongside...

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£2 Million Fine for National Grid

One of the UK’s biggest gas distributers has been sentenced after admitting safety failings in relation to the death of a young boy. On 24...

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On Site Leg Amputation Couldn't Save Man's Life

This week, Bradford Crown Court heard that on 17 August 2012, Simon Brook, an employee of Gwynn Davies-McTiffin Ltd was found lying seriously injured...

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Prison Doors Will Slam If Fire Doors Don't

On 25 June 2015, David Schofield, owner of the Park Hotel in Paignton, Devon, was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment, suspended for two...

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Man Dies After Falling Into Chimney

A 20-year-old man who made his way onto the roof of a seven storey building is believed to have sat down on the edge of a chimney and then...

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One Firm Fined, Another Ducks 'Justice'

Sir Robert McAlpine Ltd has pleaded guilty to breaching Section 3 (1) of HSWA 1974. It was fined £200,000 with £17, 790 costs. London...

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Fatal Accident Statistics Revealed

Provisional annual data released by the Health and Safety Executive reveals 142 workers were fatally injured at work between April 2014 and March 2015...

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Minor Hospital Fire Takes Woman's Life

Fire crews were called to a small fire at a hospital in Edinburgh this morning (Friday 16 Jan) but sadly and elderly woman died at the scene....

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Weather Hit Waterstones Sign Kills Employee

A fatal injury occurred earlier this week when a staff member at the Blackpool branch of Waterstones in Blackpool was crushed when a sign, loosened by...

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Construction Boss and H&S Consultant Jailed After Manslaughter Conviction

Prison sentences for a construction company director and safety consultant convicted following the death of a labourer during basement extension work...

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Balcony Collapse - One Man Was Pinned to Railings

Tomasz Procko, 22, from Greenford died at the scene. Karol Szymanski, 29, from Wembley died later in hospital. One of the men is thought to have...

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Fireworks Factory Fire Enquiry. Firefighters Strike Until Tuesday

A man who was arrested in connection with a fire at a fireworks warehouse in Stafford has been released. Two people are confirmed dead. Firefighters...

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Pressure Tank Explosion Killed Man

A horticultural company has been fined after a worker died and three others were seriously injured in an explosion while emptying a pressurised tank...

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Heathrow Worker Dies - Hit By Truck

According to the BBC, a construction worker has died having been hit by a truck at Heathrow Airport's recently reopened Terminal 2 (where some...

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Stephen Penrice - Pier Maintenance Man Fatality Named

A man working on the fire damaged Eastbourne Pier, who fell and died at the scene on Tuesday, has been named as Stephen Penrice, 44, from Sandylonning...

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