Comet fined £75k for contractor’s roof light plunge
The death of a contractor’s employee at one of its outlets has landed electrical retail chain Comet Group with penalties of almost £100,000.
6 Jul 2010

Exel and Imperial Tobacco in dock for driver death
Global logistics firm Exel Europe and cigarette maker Imperial Tobacco have each been fined £80,000 after a rolling lorry killed an Exel driver as he collected a loaded trailer at…
5 Jul 2010

Five-year ban for director following site death
A construction company boss has been banned from serving as a director for five years after a member of the public died when he wandered onto an unsecured residential building…
1 Jul 2010

Worker fatalities hit record low
The number of people killed at work in Britain fell to a record low last year, according to new provisional figures released by the HSE.
30 Jun 2010

Piling chopped off Morgan Est worker's foot
Construction giant Morgan Est has been fined for the second time in just three months for safety breaches that led to workers suffering amputation injuries.
28 Jun 2010

Developer ignored HSE notices
A property developer has been fined £2000 after he ignored two Improvement Notices at a Greater Manchester residential building site.
28 Jun 2010

Hanson fined £280k for head crush death
An incident in which a worker’s head was crushed between concrete blocks and a metal platform has cost block manufacturer Hanson Building Products almost £310,000 in penalties.
24 Jun 2010

Open hatch exposes two firms to fines
A factory worker severed three fingers and a thumb on the exposed rotating blade of a mixing machine because the cleaning hatch was open and the emergency cut-out was not…
23 Jun 2010

Overalls pulled worker into unguarded metal-working machine
An engineering company that breached basic work equipment regulations has been fined £26,000 after a worker became trapped in metal-shaping machinery.
23 Jun 2010

Two companies fined over fragile skylight fall
An incident in which a worker fell through a skylight while trying to raise a sawmill roof during a refurbishment project has landed the owner of the building and the…
22 Jun 2010

18-tonne truck crushed recycling site worker
A waste management company has been ordered to pay penalties of more than £16,000 for traffic management failures that led to a worker losing part of his left leg.
22 Jun 2010

Exclude emergency workers from safety rules, says Young
Health and safety laws should not apply to police, medics and firefighters, the conservative peer leading David Cameron’s safety review has told The Times newspaper.
21 Jun 2010

Council fined after unstable MEWP killed electrician
East Ayrshire Council has been fined £56,000 after an electrician plunged six metres from a mobile elevated work platform (MEWP) that toppled over and landed on him.
21 Jun 2010

Firms guilty of Buncefield failings
Two more companies have been convicted of health and safety breaches in relation to the Buncefield oil depot explosion in Hertfordshire in December 2005.
18 Jun 2010

North Review calls for lower drink drive limit
An independent report into drink and drug driving laws, commissioned by the Department for Transport, has recommended cutting the UK drink drive limit from 80mg alcohol per 100ml blood to…
18 Jun 2010