Accident at Work – Company & Director fined 31 October 2017 UK Regulatory Materials Summaries A company and its director have been fined for causing the death of a factory worker who fell into a piece of machinery at a recycling yard. Safi Qais Khan died at Master Construction Products (Skips) Ltd (MCP) after he […]
Company fined after injured worker requires amputation
Accident at Work 31 October 2017 UK Regulatory Materials Summaries Magna Exteriors (Banbury) Ltd has been fined £80,000 after a worker was struck by a falling pallet and had part of his leg amputated. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) found the company had failed to implement a safe system of work for the worker’s […]
Contractor fined £600,000 when a workman died on a construction site
Accident at work caused the death of a workman when a platform collapsed Article courtesy of Lexis(R)
Two scaffolders imprisoned after worker falls to death
Two scaffolders imprisoned after worker falls to death 21 September 2016 UK Regulatory Materials Summaries Two scaffolders have received prison sentences after a worker fell seven metres to his death. An investigation by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) found Colin Marshall Scaffolding was not qualified to erect the scaffolding, and there was no evidence that […]
Manufacturing firm fined after employee breaks arm
UK Regulatory Materials Summaries 2 September 2016 UK Regulatory Materials Studies Sovex Ltd has been fined £17,000, and ordered to pay £24,000 in costs, after an engineer suffered an injury when his arm was pulled into machinery while he was working to install a new conveyor belt system. A Health and Safety Executive (HSE) […]
Engineering firm fined after worker injures leg
UK Regulatory Materials Summaries 2 September 2016 UK Regulatory Materials Summaries GEA Mechanical Engineering Ltd, based in Milton Keynes, has been fined £75,000 and ordered to pay costs of £15,831 for safety failings after a worker suffered serious injuries to his leg while attempting to lift a decanter scroll into a mobile trailer. An […]
Worker injury from unsafe machinery leads to fine for employer
Worker Brendan Hayes suffered serious injuries polishing a high-powered lathe at Propbrook Engineering. The 32-year-old broke bones in his left arm and both wrists in a prop shaft. Safety systems on the machine were found to have been defeated after an investigation by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). Investigating HSE inspector Clive Neil said Mr Hayes had been […]
Safety failings lead to firm being fined
A construction company has been prosecuted and fined after an incident in which a worker suffered a serious hand injury on a flip-over saw. Sugar Construction was taken to court by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) over a failure to ensure that dangerous machine parts such as blades were guarded. The failure to provide […]
Firm prosecuted over scalding horror death
A Staffordshire-based company has been prosecuted over a fatal accident that caused a contractor to die of his injuries the following day. Waste recycling company John Pointon & Sons was prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive over the fatality, which occurred in 2011 when a self-employed contractor was carrying out repairs inside a cooker. […]
Recycling firm prosecuted after worker loses arm
Recycling firm Recresco has been fined heavily over an incident in which one of its workers lost an arm when it became trapped in a conveyor belt that fed a glass sorting machine. The incident occurred at the company’s Manisty Wharf site at Ellesmere Port in Cheshire in January 2014, when the 43-year-old employee’s safety […]