News Road planing firm fined following worker’s leg amputation A road planing contractor in Leicestershire has been prosecuted after an employee’s leg became entangled in a road milling machine and had to be amputated.
News Teen labourer’s fatal fall from height ‘wholly avoidable’, says HSE A 19-year-old who died after falling six floors through a ventilation shaft should have been prevented, an investigation by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has concluded.
News Client sentenced after worker found dead on building site A construction client has been handed a suspended prison sentence after a worker was found dead on a building site in north London.
News Builder avoids jail after roof collapse injures three and destroys home A builder has been given a suspended prison sentence after a roof collapse destroyed an occupied home and injured three workers in Windsor.
News Contractor fined after collapsing wall kills ‘full of life’ employee A building company has been fined £56,775 after one of its employees was crushed to death when a 1.8m high retaining wall collapsed onto him.
News Builder fined after boy’s skull fractured by falling pipe 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.
News Suspended sentence for joiner who failed to pay over £300,000 in taxes A Bedfordshire joiner whose two companies failed to pay more than £300,000 in tax has been sentenced after ignoring a director disqualification.
News Roofer fined for failing to provide edge protection that led to serious injury A roofer has been fined after a worker suffered serious injuries after falling from a flat roof that did not have any edge protection.
News Tata Steel fined £1.5m after ‘basic’ H&S failures that led to contractor’s death Tata Steel has been fined £1.5m after following the death of a contractor at its Port Talbot steelworks plant on 25 September 2019.
News Developer fined after 23-year-old crushed by faulty lift A London property developer has been fined £40,000 after a member of the public was crushed by a faulty falling lift at a residential property.
News Gas fitter jailed after doing botched job while suspended A gas fitter from Norfolk has been jailed after carrying out unsafe gas work in a home while suspended from the Gas Safe Register.
News Footage captures aftermath of house blast that led to builder’s prosecution Footage taken by a member of the public shows the immediate aftermath of a gas explosion that left a worker with burns so serious, he has been unable to work since.
News Demolition firm prosecuted after worker falls 6m through roof A demolition company has been fined after a worker fell six metres through a roof opening suffering serious injuries during the demolition of a vacant warehouse in Aberdeen.
News ‘Lucky nobody was killed’: company fined after house collapse injures four A Health and Safety Executive (HSE) inspector said it was “lucky nobody was killed” after four men were injured, including two seriously, when the first floor of a house collapsed during building works.
News Worker suffers life-changing injuries after falling 6m through roof A 30-year-old worker suffered life-changing injuries following a fall from height during a sheep barn conversion in Leyburn, North Yorkshire.
News Suspended jail sentence for director after roofer’s fatal fall from height The director of a Leicester-based construction company has been given a suspended prison sentence after a man fell from height while working on site and died in hospital weeks later.
News Company and operations manager fined after fall from height death A company now in liquidation and its operations manager have both been fined after a worker fell to his death through a roof at the firm’s site in Dudley.
News Company fined £30k after workers climbed rungs of unsafe scaffold A scaffolding company has been fined £30,000 after failing to assemble safe scaffolding following an investigation by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE).
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