News and Prosecutions
Weak footings led to city centre crane collapse
10 May 2012
An incident in which a tower crane collapsed onto a nearby apartment block and seriously injured its operator has landed the site’s principal contractor with a £280,000 fine. A second…
£187k fine for Northern Ireland’s first corporate manslaughter conviction
09 May 2012
A pig firm has been fined £187,500 after it became the first company to be convicted under the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act in Northern Ireland.
Unsecured platform slid off truck fork
03 May 2012
A steel firm that allowed a forklift truck to lift an unsecured working platform has been prosecuted after the platform slid off the forks and injured a nearby worker.
Schindler fined £300k for Heathrow T5 lift death
02 April 2012
The death of an engineer at Heathrow Airport has cost lift manufacturer Schindler almost £470,000.
Forklift raised teen on pallet
19 March 2012
A partner in a food products company has been fined after a teenage employee fell around two metres while unloading a shipping container attached to a heavy goods vehicle.
Articles
NEBOSH diploma article: lifting regs
05 November 2009
Lawrence Bamber gives NEBOSH diploma students and others the low-down on the lifting equipment Regs.
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