Steel Firm fined nearly £2 million for health and safety failings
Tata Steel has been fined £1.98 million and ordered to pay costs of £22,500 after two workers suffered life-changing injuries in two separate incidents involving machinery at their premises. Northampton Crown Court heard one of the firm’s younger employees; a 26-year...General Motors fined £120,000 for Asbestos Contamination
The motor manufacturer General Motors UK Ltd has been prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive after contactors were exposed to dangerous asbestos fibres while carrying out works on one of the company’s buildings in Ellesmere Port. An investigation by the HSE...Rocket Company fined £380,000 for safety failings
Roxel (Rocket Motor) Ltd, an engineering company from Worcestershire, has been fined more than £380,000 and ordered to pay costs of £60,000 after an employee was injured when inspecting a rocket motor which exploded. The employee was apparently using a fibre optic...BT fined £500,000 after worker breaks back and ankles in fall from height
British Telecom has been fined £500,000 and ordered to pay costs of nearly £100,000 after one its employees fell from a loft and broke his back and his ankles. The court heard how David Spurgeon was fixing a telephone fault in a residential block of flats in London....
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