by Russell Worth | Mar 9, 2015 | Accident at Work, Claims, News
A building firm director was partially buried, a court has heard, when the high sides of an excavation collapsed on him. Paul Connolly, director of PNT Contractors Ltd, based in Bushey needed to be rescued by workers following the excavation collapse at an Essex site...
by Russell Worth | Mar 9, 2015 | Accident at Work, Claims, News
Two firms have been sentenced after a worker broke his leg when the brakes of his ride-on cleaning machine failed leading him to steer into a balustrade at Stansted airport. 28-year-old Carl Marshall was forced to veer into the balustrade after the brakes on his...
by Russell Worth | Mar 9, 2015 | Accident at Work, Claims, News
A printing company in Pontypridd has been fined after a worker’s hand got caught in a piece of machinery. The incident occurred when 51-year-old Eiron Atkins, from Pontypridd, was starting up a rotary textile printer at firm Treforest Textiles, Pontypridd Magistrates’...
by Russell Worth | Mar 9, 2015 | Accident at Work, Claims, News
A Carmarthen waste and recycling site was operating in such dangerous conditions that it was issued with eight notices by health and safety inspectors to immediately halt a number of activities, a court has heard. Health and Safety Executive (HSE) inspectors visited...
by Russell Worth | Mar 4, 2015 | Accident at Work, Claims, News
An engineering firm in Cumbria has been fined £12,000 after one of its employees suffered severe injuries when he was hit by a metal frame, weighing almost two tonnes. The 21 year old worker from Carlisle, who requested not to be named, suffered a number of cuts and...
by Russell Worth | Mar 4, 2015 | Accident at Work, Claims, News
A firm in Manchester which manufactures flight simulator equipment for the aviation industry has appeared in court after an investigation found it had been using unsafe machinery. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) prosecuted EDM Ltd after an inspector discovered...
