by Russell Worth | Sep 5, 2013 | Accident at Work, News
A Norwich printing firm has been fined for safety failings after one of its employees seriously injured his finger in an unguarded machine. The man, 44, was working for Swallowtail Print Ltd when the incident took place in November 2012. Last week (28th August),...
by Russell Worth | Aug 28, 2013 | Accident at Work, Accident Claims, News
A Forest of Dean engineering company has been fined after one of its workers injured his hand in a machine on which a safety lock had been intentionally disabled. The man, who does not wish to be named, nearly lost a finger whilst trying to clear metal debris from a...
by Russell Worth | Aug 22, 2013 | Accident at Work, Car Accidents
A freight company based in Suffolk has been fined after a forklift truck load collapsed onto one its workers, breaking his back. Neil Jennings from Ipswich was waiting for his trailer to be loaded when one of the forklifts that was loading hit a pothole. The vehicle...
by Russell Worth | Aug 16, 2013 | Accident at Work, Industrial Disease
A former steam train cleaner died due to asbestos exposure, an inquest has heard. Peter King, from Stretton, Staffordshire, died in June this year after being diagnosed with mesothelioma last July. He was placed in palliative care after it was confirmed that he was...
by Russell Worth | Aug 7, 2013 | Accident at Work
A building firm in Surrey has been sentenced after a length of scaffolding fell onto a street in Fulham, blocking one lane but thankfully missing pedestrians and traffic. Alliance Building and Contracting Ltd were prosecuted after an investigation carried out by the...
by Russell Worth | Jul 11, 2013 | Accident at Work, News
Perrie Edwards from girl band Little Mix has revealed she has no sense of smell. It is thought the singer was born with a rare condition known as congenital anosmia; a condition which has no cure. “I have never smelt anything,” Perrie said to the BBC,...
