The Health and Safety Executive has successfully prosecuted two companies after a construction worker fell through a rooflight at a factory, impaling his leg on machinery below. 

A builder has been given a suspended prison sentence after a roof collapse destroyed an occupied home and injured three workers in Windsor.

A construction company and its director have been fined after being found guilty of safety breaches that resulted in a five-year-old child being injured by a falling cast iron pipe.

An Essex developer has been fined £40,000 and its director given a 12-month community order after failing to fix serious fire safety breaches at a seafront apartment block in Felixstowe, Suffolk.

A construction site supervisor has been fined after he exposed primary school pupils and staff to asbestos during renovation work.

Piper Homes has been fined £300,000 after a 33-year-old kitchen fitter was crushed to death by a pack of concrete blocks at a site in the Cotswolds.

A company and its director have been fined a combined £18,000 after a man was injured during excavation work in West Sussex.

A London property developer has been fined £63,000 after HSE inspectors found health and safety failures “so serious” that led to a construction site in east London being closed down on two separate occasions.

A South Wales renovation company has been £40,000 and ordered to pay almost £6,000 in costs after defying enforcement notices from the HSE.

A multi-national wood manufacturer has been fined more than £1m after two workers were injured in separate incidents at its plant in Cowie.

A solar panel installer business has been fined £120,000 after one of its employees broke his leg while working on a property in Salisbury.

Amey Community Limited has been fined £600,000 after a prisoner contracted Legionnaires’ disease and died while serving a prison sentence at HMP Lincoln.

A temporary access equipment company has been fined £1.6m after a 24-year-old worker was crushed to death.

A construction company has been fined £215,000 after a worker was seriously injured when a cherry picker was struck by a bus in Castlemilk, Glasgow.

A Belfast-based plant hire company has been fined £80,000 after a MEWP toppled off and ejected its operator, seriously injuring them.

A company that specialises in groundworks and drainage works has been fined £75,000 after a man died while working inside an excavation at a construction site in Glasgow.

Two companies have been fined a total of £76,000 after a worker was crushed to death by a machine on 24 February 2020.

EMC Elite Engineering Services Ltd has been fined £52,500 after an employee sustained serious injuries while working at an HS2 construction site in Hertfordshire.