14-year sentence for cocklers gangmaster
The gangmaster in charge of at least 21 workers who drowned while picking cockles in Morecambe Bay in 2004 has been jailed for 14 years. Lin Liang Ren was convicted…
1 May 2006

Haulier fined
Reading Magistrates have fined national haulage company QTR Transport and its managing director for assorted breaches of health and safety law at a distribution depot.
1 May 2006

3.6 metre fall costs chrome firm £55,000
A second fall from height in six years at a Derbyshire chemicals plant has left a worker paralysed below the waist and the firm £55,000 poorer.
1 May 2006

Stockline charges over nine deaths
The owners of the Stockline factory in Glasgow, where nine people died in a 2004 explosion, are to be prosecuted at the High Court. ICL Plastics will face charges of…
1 Apr 2006

Floor collapse fine
A London construction firm has been fined £45,000 after the floor of a new building collapsed, burying a labourer beneath falling debris. The incident happened on 13 November 2004 during…
1 Apr 2006

Hotelier takes the heat for poor fire precautions
A hotel manager has paid £18,000 in fines and costs for failing to comply with basic fire precautions regulations.
1 Apr 2006

Scaffolding fall costs council and contractor
A scaffolding collapse in which four workers fell nearly seven metres down a lift shaft has cost Telford and Wrekin Borough Council and its building contractor more than £41,000. The…
1 Apr 2006

Asda pays £7,100 to sacked epileptic worker
An epileptic worker who claimed supermarket giant Asda sacked him for taking a seven-minute break to take his medicine has won £7,100 compensation. An industrial tribunal in Manchester upheld an…
1 Apr 2006

Contractors jailed for Tebay killings
Two rail contractors have been jailed for a total of 11 years for the gross negligence manslaughter of four workers who were crushed by a runaway wagon. Mark Connolly and…
1 Apr 2006

Firm fined after rail injury
West Coast Traincare has been fined £13,000 following an incident in which a train ran over a maintenance worker's hand in October 2004, leading to the amputation of all five…
1 Apr 2006

Stressed VAT manager wins £138,000 compensation
HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has agreed to pay £138,000 to an ex-employee who claimed his job caused such severe stress and depression that he may never work again. Stephen…
1 Apr 2006

£400,000 toll for radioactive road trip
AEA Technology (AEAT) has been ordered to pay a total of more than £400, 000 in fines and costs after employees drove a container 130 miles across northern England, leaking…
1 Mar 2006

£50,000 asbestos penalty is 'peanuts'
The transport and General Workers Union (T&G) is warning that workers at a Great Yarmouth egg box factory could be "sitting on a potential time bomb" after Omni-Pac (UK) left…
1 Mar 2006

Fall prosecution
Meat-packing firm Ken Read & Son has been fined £13,000 after an employee fell from a step ladder at the company's factory in Market Deeping near Peterborough last May, fracturing…
1 Mar 2006

Westbury Homes pays £12,000 for contractor's fall
Housebuilder Westbury Homes has been fined £8,000 plus £3,833 costs after a window fitter fell almost six metres.
1 Mar 2006