Two firms have been prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) and fined a total of £100,000 after a maintenance worker died after an accident at a factory in Macclesfield. United Crane Services Ltd and Millennium Rubber International Ltd were fined after 60-year-old maintenance worker Martin Denton fell from the forks of a forklift …
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Construction firm fined £13,000 for worker injury
A construction firm based in Flixborough in North Lincolnshire has been fined a total of £13,000 after a worker sustained serious injuries after drilling through an underground cable. 26-year-old Richard Baisley, from Scunthorpe, had been told to dig two holes for a new sign to be placed outside Kim Barker Construction Ltd, where he worked. …
Chicken firm fined £230,000 over employee injuries
A chicken firm in Suffolk has been fined a total of £230,000 after two of its workers were injured in separate accidents. The accidents occurred at the 2 Sisters Food Group site, which is located in Flixton, in 2009. The first involved Shaun Alexander, who suffered injuries to his hand after it was crushed in …
Fife farm company fined over worker injury
A farming company based in Fife has been prosecuted and fined by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) after a worker was involved in an accident and lost two of his toes. The incident took place in September 2009 at the premises of R Todd & Company in Fife, when worker Peter Ednie was attempting …
Marks & Spencer hit with huge fine in asbestos exposure case
The retail giant Marks & Spencer has been fined a total of £1 million after it was found that the company put customers and employees in danger by potentially exposing them to asbestos during a store refurbishment. The company received the fine after inspectors found that an expensive refurbishment of one of its stores in …
Barnet bread firm fined over employee death
A bread company based in Barnet in Greater London has been prosecuted and fined by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) after an employee fell from a ladder in a fatal accident back in 2009. Ovenpride Wholesale Ltd’s Finchley Road bakery was visited by two HSE inspectors after handyman Rocco Carofalo fell from a stepladder, …
Peterborough printing firm faces fine over employee death
A printing firm based in Peterborough in Cambridgeshire could face a substantial fine over the death of an employee in October 2008. Employee Ian Ebbs, 43, was working on a night shift at the St Ives Web factory, located in the Fengate industrial area of the city, when the incident occurred. He was repairing a …
Ayr recycling firm fined £80,000 after employee accident
A recycling firm has been prosecuted and fined after an employee was crushed between two skips at one of its centres in the Scottish town of Ayr in Ayrshire. The incident occurred when 46-year-old employee Steven Graham was working between two skips and an 18-tonne shovel loader hit one of them. This caused Graham to …
Burnley engineering firm fined after worker fall
An engineering firm based in the Lancashire town of Burnley has been prosecuted and fined by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) after a contractor fell from the roof of its factory. Lupton & Place was fined £6,000 over the incident, in which a 67-year-old contractor fell through a roof panel. He was lucky enough …
British Airways sued by flight attendant over head injury
A former British Airways flight attendant is pursuing legal action against her employers after she suffered a head injury whilst at work. According to a report in the London Evening Standard, flight attendant Gail-Ormiston-White was aboard a flight that was delayed at Heathrow in July 2008 when the accident happened. She was in the rear …
