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Online Heat Pump Seller Prosecuted for Breaching F-Gas Regulations

An online retailer has been fined for selling HVAC equipment without ensuring that it would be installed by a properly qualified...

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Interserve Fined £4.4m for Failure to Keep Staff Details Secure

The UK’s IT security watchdog has fined Interserve for breaching data protection law and failing to prevent a cyber attack. The Information...

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TfL Fines Thames Water for Unsafe Streetworks

Thames Water has been fined £100,000 for four safety streetworks related offences committed on the Transport for London Road...

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Million Pound Fine for Breaching F-Gas Regulations Handed to London Firm

London-based firm IMO Gas Supplies Ltd has been found guilty of seven separate offences all linked to breaches of regulation 31A of the...

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Health and Safety Breach Fines 142% Higher Than Compliance Costs

SMEs that defy health and safety regulations could face a fine 142 per cent higher than the yearly cost of complying with the...

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Airline Company Guilty For Unsafe Operation of Passenger Lift

Flybe, the airline company, was sentenced on 4 February 2020 for the unsafe operation of a passenger lift. Meanwhile, a number of other firms have...

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Newnham College Cambridge Lands Asbestos Failings Fine

Newnham College Cambridge has been fined for failings that exposed employees and subcontractors to asbestos during refurbishment of a flat owned by...

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Support Service Company Fined For Brain Injury Fall

A company providing a range of airline ground support services has been fined after an employee fell from a height of more than two metres - suffering...

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School Gets Hard Knock With Fire Conviction

A prestigious Wakefield school and former fire risk assessor have been fined after admitting fire safety offences across educational premises. The...

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Chemical Co Convicted At Christmas

Just before Christmas, a chemical company (LMA Services Ltd) was sentenced for breaches that led to a fire. Meanwhile, a fall from height has cost Sir...

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Places For People Places People In Danger

A property management and development organisation has been fined after a number of employees developed Hand Arm Vibration Syndrome. Aylesbury...

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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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Hotel All At Sea Over Asbestos

Two companies have been fined. RJW Building Solutions, a contractor carrying out refurbishment work at the Sea Hotel in South Shields and Hotel...

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Leak And Ladder Lead To Bad Mix At Chemical Co

An employee inspecting a steam leak at height fell to the ground when the ladder he was on failed. The employee of Vertellus Specialties UK fell two...

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Lending A Hand Costs Security Guard His Fingers

A security guard has lost his fingers after being asked by a groundworks contractor to lend a hand to do a job he was not employed or skilled to do....

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Facial Recognition Now Available - But Trouble Brewing Ahead

A commercially available facial recognition system has just been launched. Meanwhile, developer Argent could be in hot water for using LFR and both...

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Sort The Confusion - Falling Recycling Rates Blamed On Lack Of Understanding

Waste giant Biffa has called for UK recycling confusion to be sorted, saying that inconsistency and confusion in labelling, sorting and collections...

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Well Blow Me Down - Director Fined For Being Blown Off Roof

A director of a construction has seen his company (along with two others) fined when he was blown off an unsafe roof. The three firms,...

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Lanes Fined £500,000 After Worker Injured In Fall

Lanes Group PLC have been fined £500,000, with £9,896.19 costs, after pleading guilty to one offence under the Work at Height Regulations...

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147 Dead - 2018/19 Fatal Injury Stats Released

July 3 saw the HSE release their annual provisional workplace fatality figures for 2018/19. 147 workers died between April 2018 and March 2019 (a...

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Serco Gets Tagged With £19.2 Million Fine

The Serious Fraud Office will make Serco, the outsourcing giant, stump up £19.2 million - plus costs - for claiming they had tagged offenders...

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Poor Maintenance & Reporting Lead To £126 Million Penalty

Southern Water has agreed to pay £126 million in penalties and payments to customers after dreadful maintenance led to sewage treatment...

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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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Dying Matters - Hospital Trust Fined For Asbestos Breach

Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust has been fined after refurbishment work at a hospital exposed employees and contractors to asbestos. The...

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Chucked Crowbar Causes Flashover Catastrophe

Two companies have been fined after a worker attempted to test if high voltage equipment was isolated by throwing a crowbar at it - it wasn't and...

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Holy Catastrophe - Demolition Results In Bat Fine

A development company has been fined more than £18,000 for illegally destroying a building where protected Pipistrelle bats were known to...

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JLL Off The Hook But Five Fit-outs Fined For Financial Fixing

Five office fit-out firms are to pay £7 million in fines for breaking competition law but a sixth, JLL, has gotten away scot-free after blowing...

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School Children Avoid Scaffolding Collapse

A scaffolding company has been fined after scaffolding it had erected collapsed onto a neighbouring primary school. Cardiff Magistrates’...

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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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Interserve - Basic Failings In Basic Maintenance. Troubled Firm Hit With Huge Bio Hazard Fine

Emergency generators failed and one caught fire when they were called in to use. Interserve has been fined after multiple safety failings could have...

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Sheriff Court Goes Further With Shell

The early days of August have already seen four companies receive substantial H&S fines. Shell received the biggest of these when a cylinder and...

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Developer Jailed After Building Collapse

July 20 saw a Manchester property developer sentenced after the roof and part of the rear wall collapsed at one of his commercial properties during...

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Failing & Falling - Lift Shaft Plunge Sees Care Home Fined

A care home has been fined (June 26) after an employee plunged down a lift shaft and suffered significant injuries after falling around 1.5...

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Balfour Beatty Before The Beak

Balfour Beatty Utility Solutions has been fined £500,000 for long-term hand, arm vibration contributions; a major TV studio fined as a...

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The Rights and Wrongs Of Prohibition Notices

The Supreme Court has recently decided that where a Prohibition Notice is served and subsequently found to be unfounded, the Notice can be rescinded...

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Power to The People - Citizen Smith Makes A Charlie Out Of Charlie

Plumber Gary Smith has won his case against Charlie Mullins and Pimlico Plumbers - a huge ruling on the employment status of individual contractors...

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Legionnaires’ Outbreak Followed by Explosion Leads To £1.6 Million Fine

A manufacturer has been fined £1.6 million after a Legionnaires’ disease outbreak and an explosion occurred at the same plant within a...

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Fine After Man Hit By 500kg Slab

May 15 saw a demolition company fined after a worker suffered multiple injuries when he was struck by a concrete spandrel panel. Manchester...

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Texting Killer Driver Has Sentence Extended

A man who killed a highways worker and paralysed another when he hit them whilst texting and driving has been jailed for a longer term than his...

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Dursley Does It - Fine For School Unlicensed Asbestos Removal

A company has been fined following an unlicensed asbestos removal from a school. The unsafe and unlicensed removal occurred during refurbishment works...

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Clamping Down On Rogue Carpark Charging

Finally there has been a boost for drivers but not for carpark owners as the government backs a clamp down on rogue parking firms. Government is to...

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Vehicle Crushes Pedestrian & Other Cases

A worker has been sentenced after seriously injuring pedestrian - we have the disturbing CCTV footage of the incident plus news of another six...

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Up, Up And Away - Drones Drafted In For Building Inspections

The Sky has become the limit as a new partnership looks to take inspection strategy to, quite literally, a whole new level. Against the...

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Bilfinger Supervisory Board To Seek Damages Against Former Executive Board Members

On February 20, 2018, the Supervisory Board of Bilfinger SE has asserted claims for damages against former members of the Executive Board - this...

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Public Liabilities & Crown Sensures

Company fined after falling scaffold clips hits pedestrian; MoD receives crown censure following royal navy technician death; Companies fined after...

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Slipping & Tripping Leads To School Skipping

More than £450,000 compensation was paid to Scottish teachers injured at work in 2017 with those teachers affected all unable to come in while...

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Â£1.5 Million For Maintenance Electrician Death

Tata Steel has been is to pay out over £1.5 million in fines sand costs after health and safety failings lead to the death of 26-year old...

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Safety Convictions Keep Rolling

A roller shutter door fell during repair works - no injuries but fine for not planning properly. Elsewhere, fines for unsafe vehicle movements - one...

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Big Fines For Litter Drop-off

Maximum litter fines are to almost double to £150 from April as well as new fines introduced for owners of vehicles from which litter is...

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Top Seven 'I Forgot' Fines & Other Things That Get Drivers In Hot Water

Drivers have been warned about ‘forgettable fines’ after a van leasing firm found many customers accidentally incurred penalties for...

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NHS Trusts In The Dock - Legionella and Lone Worker Fatality Convictions

Royal United Hospitals (Bath) NHS Foundation Trust has (in week ending December 15) pleaded guilty to a charge under Section 3(1) of the Health and...

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Massive Fine & Jail Sentences After Horrific Fatality

A recycling company has been fined £880,000 and two people have been given suspended prison sentenced after the death of an agency worker who...

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Britain's Annual Injury & Ill Health Statistics Released

The latest annual injury and ill health statistics from the Health and Safety Executive show 1.3 million workers were suffering from work related...

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Unresolved Fault Leads to Massive Enviro Fine

United Utilities has been ordered to pay a fine of £666,000 after pleading guilty to polluting a river in Greater Manchester with untreated...

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TfL Plans PCN Cash Dash

Transport for London is to 'consult' on its plans to increase Penalty Charge Notices for offences on TfL roads and non-payment of the...

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Scaffolding - Dangers Exposed

Date: August 21 - Construction company fined after worker fell from height A construction company has been fined after a worker suffered life...

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Bam Ferrovial Keir Fined £1 Million

A passenger air transport firm has been fined after an employee suffered brain damage after being crushed by hangar doors in Bedfordshire. St...

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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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Illness and Injuries High Despite Death Rate Decline

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) released its annual figures for work related fatalities (April 2016 to March 2017) on July 5, as well as a...

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Explosion Sees Massive Fine - Plus Legal Digest

This week saw a £1 million fine for a company after an oxygen pipe exploded during maintenance. A Sheffield Forgemasters...

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United in Government Call for End to Dangerous Deregulation

The UK Government has been urged to scrap its approach to deregulation of health and safety legislation in the light of the Grenfell Tower...

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Waterloo Cordoned Off - Fine for Building Collapse - Fragile Roof Fall

The high winds on Wednesday 6 caused a tree to fall onto a bus near Waterloo. Firefighters were called to Concert Hall Approach, close to Waterloo...

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Game, Set and Match as Landlords Get Record Fine

Friday may 26 saw crews called to fire in hedgerow at Wimbledon Tennis Club Four fire engines and 21 firefighters and officers went to a practice...

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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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Spiked Railings Horror Fall Sees Manslaughter Convictions

A construction firm has been convicted of the manslaughter of two workers who died after falling from a central London balcony. One of the workers...

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Man Breaks Back - Another Killed by Vehicle

Eco NRG Solutions Ltd and its director Jon Luke Antoniou have been fined after a worker fell from height at a property in Cornwall. Taunton...

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Safety Fines Reflect Size of Guilty Firms

A construction company has been fined £3/4 million for asbestos failings; another for a falling load crush; another for a trench collapse; and...

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£Quarter Mill Fine for Solar Fall

A Bristol based solar panel installation company has been fined after a 49-year-old worker fell more than 3.5 metres through a void in a roof. The...

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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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School Takes a Hard Knock as Ladder Lessons Learned

Westminster Magistrates’ Court has heard this week ending April 28 that on 9 May 2016 a teacher was conducting rigging and adjustments to...

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Man Paralysed by Falling Pipes

An Essex company specialising in gas infrastructure have been fined after an employee suffered a serious injury when a pipe fell into the trench he...

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Shocking Ways to Land in Court

BAM Construction Limited and Shoreland Projects Limited have been fined after a man suffered multiple life changing injuries including severe burns to...

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Crushing Fine for Airport Death

A construction firm has been sentenced following the death of Philip Griffiths at Heathrow Airport in October 2014. Southwark Crown Court heard...

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Slavery & Trafficking Quashed at Recycling Plant

West Midlands Police has secured court orders against two men suspected of using slave labour at recycling plants in the Black Country. The Slavery...

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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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Record Fine - £20 million - for River Pollution

Thames Water Utilities Ltd (Thames Water) has (on March 22) been fined an unprecedented £20,361,140.06 in fines and costs for a series of...

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One Dead, One Injured in Lift Car Plunge Tragedy

A company and a self employed contractor have been fined for safety failings after one man died and another was left seriously injured falling six...

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Falls and Walls Cost Constructors

Construction company Kier Construction Limited has been fined £400,000 after a worker fell from height. Westminster Magistrates’ Court...

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Corporate Law and the Sleight of Hand

The Health and Safety Executive has settled a judicial review of its cost recovery process out of court before the planned High Court hearing on March...

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Near Misses - Wall Collapse and Train Door Drag

Aerial footage released yesterday (March 2) shows the extent of the damage to the wall on the approach to Liverpool Lime Street station. The wall...

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Tilbury Tip-over is Least of Major Accidents

A London construction firm, Leyland SDM (LSDM), has been fined after four workers fell more than three and a half metres whilst carrying a ventilation...

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Bad Attitudes Lead to Convictions - One Man Dead

Newport Magistrates’ Court have heard how a Recresco Limited employee was injured when a roller door's barrel fell on him resulting in three...

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Payments Sooth Cider Problems Away

The Environment Agency has accepted an enforcement undertaking from a major cider brewer following pollution to a Herefordshire brook. Heineken UK...

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Prison Time for Waste Offenders

During 2016, almost £220,000 in fines and costs were imposed by courts following Environment Agency investigations in the North-East. There...

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Mr Briggs Captured and Three Take a Fall

A demolition contractor has been sentenced after admitting illegally removing asbestos from a building he was working on. David William Briggs,...

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Asbestos Analyst Fined for Falsifying Documents

An asbestos analyst has been fined after he falsified an asbestos air clearance certificate, following licensed asbestos removal in...

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Big Fine for Wilko - £1.4 Billion Chain Hit for Catastrophic Failings

Household goods giant Wilko has been fined £2.2 million after a horrific accident at a Leicester store left a young female worker...

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First Safety Convictions of 2017

4 January 2017 saw a Lincoln based Construction Company, specialising in fitting mezzanine floors, prosecuted after a contractor fell onto a concrete...

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Humpty Dumpties Avoid Falls but Not Fines

A specialist roofing company and its two directors have been sentenced after admitting working unsafely at height on a hotel development in central...

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Fine After Teen Worker Injured

A supplier of industrial equipment based in Newcastle has been fined after a work experience person on their first day of work was...

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Cavalier Estate Management Firm Fined Again

A real estate company in Oxfordshire has been fined for failing to manage asbestos on its premises following a fire. Reading Crown Court heard how...

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Mowing and Lifting Convictions

Thanet District Council has been fined after a worker was left with permanent injuries after being diagnosed with hard arm vibration...

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Temporary Platform Collapse Kills Worker

Southwark Crown Court has heard how, on 29 October 2012, a worker died and two others were badly injured at a construction site in Putney, when a...

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Fathers' Day - Killings Get Scant Justice

A company providing environmental services has been prosecuted after a worker was killed during asbestos removal work at a Welsh High...

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Road Outrage - £1.3 Million Fine for Pensioners' Deaths

Liverpool City Council and two of its contractors have been prosecuted following two separate incidents involving roadworks on a busy city centre...

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Building Site Death and Star Wars Fine

A building contractor has been fined after a worker was killed when a load fell from a tower crane during a lifting operation in Colchester. Urban...

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Every Little Hurts - Tesco and BDC Didn't Do Enough

Tesco has been fined after health and safety breaches led to a worker falling through a skylight. The employee of Tesco Maintenance Ltd was lucky to...

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Phoenix Nights Delayed by Asbestos Exposure

A Bolton night club owner has been sentenced after admitting a failure to carry out a survey for asbestos before starting on the refurbishment of a...

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Mobile Madness - Bigger Penalties to Come

At the end of last week (and big news across the weekend), the government has declared plans to make using a handheld device whilst driving a fixed...

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G4S Cash Solutions Hit with £1.8 Million Cash Resolution

G4S Cash Solutions (UK) Limited has been fined £1.8 million after Harlow Council successfully prosecuted the company for failing to protect its...

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Fire Engulfed Man in Flames

August 18 saw a distillery based in Oldbury fined after an employee was engulfed in flames in a fire that destroyed the warehouse and its...

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Worker Fell to His Death - Lessons Ignored

Roofing firms fined after worker fell to his death On August 22, two roofing companies and one of their directors were fined after a worker fell to...

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No Getting Off the Hook After Lift Pit Tumble

Cardiff based construction company, Jehu Project Services Ltd, sentenced on August 16 after a worker was seriously injured falling down a lift...

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Maintenance Workers - Injuries Result in Fines

A school in Brentwood has pleaded guilty to breaching health and safety regulations after a worker was injured as he fell from a roof. Chelmsford...

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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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GM Drives into Asbestos Trouble

General Motors UK Ltd has been prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive after work being undertaken at its North Road, Ellesmere Port site in...

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Another Roof Fall. Another Death

Two companies based in Northamptonshire have been fined after a worker died following a fall through a roof. Northampton Crown Court heard how an...

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Falls from Height - BT Bill Busts £1 Million Mark

British Telecom plc (BT) has been fined £500,000 plus £98,913.51 costs after an engineer fell seven metres from a loft in London, breaking...

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Tackling Legionella Remotely Proves Hit

Carillion in partnership with SPICA Technologies has introduced a successful pilot Internet of Things (IoT) project for remote legionella monitoring...

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Shocking Falls and Head Injuries Cost BT Dear

British Telecommunications PLC has been fined after two of its employees were seriously injured in falls from height. Teesside Crown Court heard...

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Accidents, Tragedies and Fines

A Hampshire-based energy company has been fined for releasing natural gas and crude oil. Humbly Grove Energy Limited is a top tier COMAH operator...

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Postman Flat - Royal Mail Foots Fine

The Royal Mail Group Limited has been fined £100,000 after a worker’s foot was run over by a reach truck in a bundling...

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Balfour Beatty Hit with £2.6 Million Trench Death Fine

A company has been fined £2.6 million after an James Sim was killed when the trench he was working in collapsed on him in...

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Client Caught Coz of CDM

Two companies have been fined after asbestos was disturbed during refurbishment work - one under the Health and Safety at Work Act; the other under...

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Paying the Penalty for Released Gas

The Environment Agency has carried out a successful prosecution under the F-Gas Regulations that has been generally welcomed by the building...

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Multiple Safety Failings Punished

A Hertfordshire based contractor has been found guilty for a series of safety failings across two separate sites. HSE had received a...

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Prison Break Leads to Fine

Four different duty holders have been fined after a worker was injured while replacing a window at Leeds Prison. Leeds Magistrates’ Court...

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Leicester's Rising Light Sees Riser Fall

A company in Derbyshire has been fined after a worker fell thirteen metres down a service riser shaft. Leicester Magistrates’ Court heard how...

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Who's Facing the Music Now?

Radio station Pirate FM is to be prosecuted for a blatant disregard for safety signage and for generally taking the micky out of the whole health...

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Crane Crash - the After Effects

A national crane hire company has been fined for failings that led to the death of two men - and the family of one man have spoken of their...

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No Need for a Hand to Cup if You Listen Up

Organised by the HSE, Listen UP! the First European Hearing Conservation Conference is being held next month in Manchester. The HSE is the lead...

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Taught a Lesson - School Removal Fine

An Oxford based company has been fined after disturbing asbestos insulation board (AIB) at a school. Northampton Magistrates’ Court heard how...

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Window Wallies Whacked in Wallet

A company which manufactured and installed windows has been fined £36,000 after carrying out work in the West End of London with no measures to...

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Legionella Death at Care Home

Reading Borough Council has been fined following an investigation into the death of a pensioner who died from exposure to legionella During the...

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Pensioner Killed in Health Centre Fall

The NHS Litigation Authority has been prosecuted after an 82-year-old man fell 12ft to his death from an elevated walkway outside a health...

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Unlicensed Firm Fined for Removal

A construction firm that had removed an asbestos ceiling in a Luton school despite not being legally approved to do the work has been found...

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An Inspector Calls

A partner in a retail business and the construction company he contacted to do roof work have been fined for safety failings. Portsmouth...

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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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Workers Lives were at Risk

A Manchester building contractor has been fined after unsafe excavations at a care home site put both workers and members of the public at...

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Construction Death Down to Failed Practices

John Walker was an electrician, who worked for 777 Environmental and he was killed while working on a demolition site on Walworth Road, Elephant and...

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Engineering and Facilities Firms Sentenced

Two companies have been sentenced for safety failings after a worker was electrocuted during work on a data centre in Middlesex. Balfour Beatty...

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Logistics Company Found Guilty

A logistics company has been fined £20,000 after a worker was hit by a forklift truck in a busy yard and suffered head injuries. The HSE...

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International Companies Sentenced after Fatality

Two global operators have been found guilty after a worker was killed and another seriously injured during construction of an offshore wind...

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Council Barrier Caused Death

North Lincolnshire Council has been fined after a man died when his car drove into a horizontal swing barrier gate to a car park at a sports...

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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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Failure to Control Legionella Risk Sees Firm Fined

A steel coating company has been fined for failing to manage the risks from legionella bacteria at two cooling towers over a period of five...

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Not Smart to Block Wi-Fi

US firm Smart City has been forced to reach an agreement with the FCCEB to stop blocking consumers using their own data plans and forcing them on to...

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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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Spanish Company Falls Foul in UK

An international construction business has been sentenced after admitting multiple safety issues at a Manchester site where it was carrying out a shop...

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Cleaner Catches Costly Fine

A Sheffield property and cleaning company has been fined for breaching Work at Height regulations. Turbo Property and Cleaning Services Ltd of Wade...

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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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Fall Through Fragile Roofs Lands Barski in Court

Reading Magistrates’ Court has found guilty Barski Developments Ltd for failing to plan and manage work in Slough that led to a sub-contractor...

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Piggy in the Middle - 'Road Hog' Punished

The first conviction for the specific offence of ‘motorway middle lane hogging’ since it was introduced in 2013 was handed out this...

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Fall Due to Instructor ‘Not Competent’

Essex County Council has been fined after a novice climber plunged 7.5.m from an indoor rock face at a climbing centre in Harlow. The 15 year-old...

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An Explosion Not on the Curriculum

A gas servicing firm in Halifax has been prosecuted for safety failings after an explosion in the boiler room of a local primary school. The...

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Waltham Forest - a Failure to Protect Workers

Waltham Forest Borough Council was been fined after the court was satisfied that it had exposed members of staff and visiting contractors to the...

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Labform Asbestos Procedures 'Inexcusable'

A Cheshire business has been in court and found guilty after workers were potentially exposed to asbestos. Labform Ltd, a laboratory design and...

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Life Changing Injuries from Fall

Cleansafe Services, a Surrey based cleaning business, has been prosecuted for safety failings after an employee suffered life changing injuries when...

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Fined for the Height of Failure

A Stockport business has been fined after one of its workers fell from height. The company, Stockport based Solutions SK, was found guilty after a...

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Laing O’Rourke Guilty of 'Highly Dangerous Situation'

Laing O’Rourke Construction Ltd has been fined for causing a major gas leak at what was the University Hospital of North Staffordshire (now...

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Death was an Entirely Preventable Tragedy

A waste management company has been has been fined heavily after a worker was killed when he was struck by a vehicle at a Watford waste transfer...

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Tower of Terror Sees Tourists Tangled, While Court Delay is Twighlight Zone

A lift company has been found guilty in court after terrified tourists were left with broken legs and ankles when a Tower Bridge lift fell several...

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Communal Boiler House Death

A homes provider company for Barnet Council has been fined for safety failings after a heating engineer was found dead in a communal boiler house at...

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The Fall Guys - Aircraft Firm Gets Fall Failure Fines

An aircraft maintenance company has been sentenced for safety failures after three workers were injured in separate falls at its airfield in Lasham...

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Hoarding Collapse Crushed Shoppers

A shop fitting company has been fined for the collapse of a hoarding in London’s Oxford Street that caused injuries to passing pedestrians....

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Care Home Failure Causes Resident’s Death

A care home company failed to ensure an elderly resident’s safety when she managed to overcome a restrictor device to open a window and fall...

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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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Fined after Patient is Paralysed by Fall

A NHS Foundation Trust has been fined for safety failings after a vulnerable mental health patient was left paralysed after diving off a roof The...

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Leisure Centre Roof Fall Costs Contractors

Two building contractors have been fined after a worker broke his back when he fell 4m from a roof. The 36-year-old man from Kettlebrook, Tamworth,...

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Costain Sentenced for Parkway Telehandler Death

Costain has been ordered to pay more than £615,000 in fines and costs after a worker was killed when a telehandler overturned during the...

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Fined after Hotel Gas Blast

An Aberdeen based catering supply company has been fined after three people were seriously injured in a gas explosion in a hotel kitchen in...

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Falling Fire Door Caused Care Home Fatality

Two companies have been sentenced for safety failings following the death of an elderly resident at a care home in Manchester. The resident, Irene...

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Virgin Fails to Keep-up - Fines Not a Bolt from the Blue

Transport for London (TfL) has successfully prosecuted the Virgin Media and utility contractor, McNicholas, resulting in fines and costs of more than...

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£25,000 - Cost of Work at Height Regulations Breach

A Jarrow based company, UTS Engineering Ltd, had been undertaking ‘extensive repairs’ to the roof of its premises during September and...

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School for Scandal

The school governors of Bloomfield Collegiate School were fined £7,500 plus costs of £1,750 at Belfast Crown Court when they pleaded...

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Train Spotting Leads to Fine

The owner and developer of a construction site in Raynes Park has appeared in court after an eagle-eyed HSE official twice noticed unsafe work at...

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A Price Worth Paying? An Environmental Fines UPDATE

Following the Court of Appeal’s ruling in the case of Sellafield Limited and Network Rail Infrastructure, who were recently fined £700,000...

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