by Russell Worth | Mar 23, 2015 | Accident at Work, Claims, News
A firm in Aberdeenshire has appeared in court after it breached health and safety laws when a worker’s gloved hand was pulled into a machine. 23-year-old Mariusz Toporek, who is originally from Poland but now lives in Macduff, was an employee of Macduff Shipyards...
by Russell Worth | Mar 23, 2015 | Accident at Work, Claims, News
A firm in West Yorkshire has appeared in court after an industrial oven exploded in its factory just minutes after its employees had left the area. The incident, which happened at Flexitallic Ltd’s factory in Cleckheaton in March 2013, was investigated by the Health...
by Russell Worth | Mar 20, 2015 | Accident at Work, Accident Claims, Claims, News, Personal Injury |
An Essex-based vegetable nursery has appeared in court after an employee’s arm was severed when it was pulled into the unguarded nip point of a machine. The 39 year-old worker, who lived in a cabin on the firm’s Nazeing site, was working with a large moving machine...
by Russell Worth | Mar 19, 2015 | Accident at Work, Back Injury, Claims, News |
An ecology consultancy has appeared in court after a worker broke her back when she fell at a former hospital site in Essex. The woman, a 34-year-old ecologist who has asked to remain anonymous, was surveying one of the derelict buildings for wildlife when the...
by Russell Worth | Mar 16, 2015 | Accident at Work, Claims, News
A waste management company in Northampton must pay £265,000 after one of its workers was killed when he was hit by a vehicle at a waste transfer station in Watford. Father-of-two Patrick Murphy, from Watford was struck and then run over by a JCB loading shovel as he...
by Russell Worth | Mar 13, 2015 | Accident at Work, Claims, News
An engineering firm in Kent has been fined after a young employee was left disabled when a metal sheet fell on his feet, severing three toes from one foot and breaking all toes on the other. 20-year-old Anton Hunter, an engineer with G&P Machine Shop Ltd in...
