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Posted 9 years ago
Man fined for gas safety failings
Health and Safety Executive Press Releases 2015
A Bedford man was fined for safety failings after installing an LPG fuelled boiler at a domestic property. He was not gas safe registered and had no recognised qualifications to carry out the work Luton Magistrates’ Court heard how, in June 2013, Kalimat Ramalingum (58 years old)claimed to be gas safe registered to the homeowners […]
Posted 9 years ago
Roofing contractor fined after employee fell through fragile roof
Health and Safety Executive Press Releases 2015
A Norwich-based roofing contractor has been fined after his employee fell seven metres through a roof on which he was working. Sole trader Leighton Johnson and his employee were completing a job on a fragile roof at a factory in Kings Lynn on 11 August 2014. The 26-year-old employee was kneeling on a scaffolding board […]
Posted 9 years ago
Roofing company prosecuted over worker’s fall
Health and Safety Executive Press Releases 2015
Following an incident on 30 September 2013, HSE attended a property on Paragon Place, London and subsequently prosecuted, Chris Ball & Son Roofing Ltd., of Greenwich, for safety breaches. West London Magistrates yesterday were told that two roof workers were tasked with removing tiles and re-felting a gulley area adjacent to a pitched roof. The company had failed […]
Posted 9 years ago
Business partners fined following worker injured in explosion
Health and Safety Executive Press Releases 2015
Yorkshire business partners are fined after worker is blinded in explosion. Northallerton Magistrates, 4 August, heard how the explosion at Mason Engineering on 18 November 2013 happened as they were transferring oxygen between pressurised cylinders. The partners had rigged up a make-shift hose fitting that was not designed for the high risk procedure. Debris built […]
Posted 9 years ago
Woodwork company fined after worker lost fingers
Health and Safety Executive Press Releases 2015
A Gloucestershire-based woodwork firm was fined after a worker lost three fingers whilst using a table saw. Stroud Magistrates Court heard that on the 22 September 2014 agency worker, Egidijus Norkus, 44, was instructed to use the table saw by his supervisor to cut tongue and grove boards being used to make bird table bases. […]
Posted 10 years ago
Scaffolding firm fined after worker killed in fall
Health and Safety Executive Press Releases 2015
A Glasgow scaffolding firm has been fined after a roof worker fell nearly six metres to his death. James Baillie, 53, suffered serious head injuries after he fell through a scaffold tower deck whilst carrying out roof work at a two storey domestic property in Thorntonhall, South Lanarkshire on 22 September 2011. He died from […]
Posted 10 years ago
Heating engineers in court over asbestos
Health and Safety Executive Press Releases 2015
A Stockport heating engineering firm were sentenced after two of its engineers were exposed to asbestos while working at a Manchester school. Trafford Magistrates’ Court heard Flueclean were contracted to replace boilers in the boiler room of the school. However, two of Flueclean’s gas engineers were exposed to asbestos when they took the side panels […]
Posted 10 years ago
Building contractor sentenced over unsafe working practices
Health and Safety Executive Press Releases 2015
An international construction firm has been sentenced after admitting multiple safety issues at a Manchester site where it was carrying out a shop refurbishment. Betcat International Limited is based in Seville, Spain, but has offices in locations around Europe, including London. The firm was hired by high street clothing chain Mango to carry out refurbishment […]
Posted 10 years ago
Court hears print dangers ‘largely ignored’
Health and Safety Executive Press Releases 2015
A Leeds printing company has been fined after an employee had the end of his thumb severed when it was drawn into an unguarded running nip between the rollers of a glueing machine. The 46-year-old worker, from Rodley, was working on a print run for a supermarket loyalty voucher mailing at The Lettershop Ltd’s premises […]
Posted 10 years ago
Gas installer jailed over shoddy gas work
Health and Safety Executive Press Releases 2015
A gas installer has been jailed after carrying out dangerous and illegal work at two homes in Hertfordshire. Shane Wyatt, from Buntingford, trading as S & J Plumbing and Heating, carried out work on gas appliances at homes in Buntingford and Baldock, leaving the fittings in an unsafe state in both cases. Some of the work […]
Posted 10 years ago
Company sentenced after worker’s life changing injuries
Health and Safety Executive Press Releases 2015
A company was fined £40,000 today after a worker suffered life changing injuries when part a structure weighing 750kg fell on him. Basingstoke Magistrates’ Court heard how an employee of Tunnel Tech Limited, was dismantling polytunnel structures when the end bulkhead weighing fell on him causing life threatening injuries. A polytunnel is a tunnel made […]
Posted 10 years ago
Global Energy Firm fined £1.4m after worker killed in refinery fire
Health and Safety Executive Press Releases 2015
Total UK Limited have been fined £1.4 million after a major fire led to the death of a worker at an oil refinery in North Lincolnshire. Twenty-four year old Robert Greenacre from Grimsby was working near a crude oil distillation unit just before the fire broke out at the Lindsey Oil Refinery (TLOR) in Immingham on […]
Posted 10 years ago
Skipper sentenced for failings leading to diver death
Health and Safety Executive Press Releases 2015
The skipper of a shellfish fishing boat has been sentenced for serious safety failings after the death of a diver in the River Forth Estuary. Graeme Mackie, 31, of Tranent, West Lothian, was working as a scuba diver to collect shellfish from Ronald John MacNeil’s boat the “Rob Roy” when the incident happed on 11 […]
Posted 10 years ago
Metal recycling firm fined after worker suffered hand and arm injuries
Health and Safety Executive Press Releases 2015
Totternhoe Metal Recycling Limited (TMR) have been fined after a worker was injured whilst delivering waste metal. The 40 year old worker from Bedfordshire, who does not wish to be named, lost the top of his thumb and suffered damage to his hand and arm in the incident which happened on 24 April 2014 at […]
Posted 10 years ago
Colchester gas engineer fined over illegal work
Health and Safety Executive Press Releases 2015
An unregistered gas engineer has been fined after working unlawfully on a boiler at domestic premises in Colchester. Colchester Magistrates Court heard that Derek Ringe, 64, serviced and repaired a domestic boiler at a property in Colchester, whilst not being recorded on Gas Safe Register on two separate occasions in July 2013 and July 2014. […]
Posted 10 years ago
Firm prosecuted following the avoidable death of a roof worker
Health and Safety Executive Press Releases 2015
A Darwen firm have appeared in court after one of their employees, Graham Readfern (56 yrs old from Bacup), died after falling from the roof of a partly completed loft conversion project in January 2012. Newhey Loft Conversions Limited were prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) after an investigation revealed that the scaffolding […]
Posted 10 years ago
Council sentenced over park injury to toddler
Health and Safety Executive Press Releases 2015
A council appeared in court for sentencing today after an incident in which a three year old girl was struck by a park ranger’s vehicle. Mansfield Magistrates’ Court heard Nottinghamshire Council staff were using a lightweight all-terrain vehicle to travel around the Park whilst emptying litter bins at the Robin Hood Festival in August 2011. Nottinghamshire […]
Posted 10 years ago
Government agrees high level principles for rodenticides stewardship regimes
Health and Safety Executive Press Releases 2015
A cross-government ‘Oversight Group’ has agreed a set of high-level principles to assist industry in developing stewardship regimes to control the use of rodenticides. Regulatory risk assessments concluded that the outdoor use of First and Second Generation Anticoagulant Rodenticides (FGARs and SGARs) present a higher level of risk to animals such as predatory birds and […]
Posted 10 years ago
Quarrying company fined for safety failings
Health and Safety Executive Press Releases 2015
A Derbyshire quarrying company has been fined for safety failings after suffering a significant failure of a quarry face. When the failure occurred, the office that was situated at the top of the quarry slid, with the ground underneath it to the bottom. North Derbyshire Magistrates’ Court heard how, in early January 2014, New Pilough […]
Posted 10 years ago
Construction firms sentenced after worker death
Health and Safety Executive Press Releases 2015
A national construction firm and a glazing contractor have been sentenced after pleading guilty to safety breaches after a worker fell to his death from a store front in Exeter. Philip Evans was working for specialist construction company London Fenestration Trades Ltd, which was contracted by principal contractor, Sir Robert McAlpine to undertake remedial repair […]
