by Russell Worth | Jan 4, 2017 | Accident at Work, Injury at Work
The dairy manufacturer Muller UK and Ireland Group LLP has been fined £400,000 and ordered to pay costs of nearly £10,000 after one of its employees fell through a fragile roof. Manchester Crown Court heard how one of the company’s employees was carrying out a routine...
by Russell Worth | Dec 12, 2016 | Injury at Work, News
Four people have received suspended jail sentences and heavy fines for a variety of ongoing health and safety failings at a furniture factory in Port Talbot. When the Health and Safety Executive visited the factory as a part of their programme of visits to woodworking...
by Russell Worth | Dec 12, 2016 | Accident at Work, Forklift Accidents, Head Injuries, Injury at Work
An industrial equipment supplier has been fined £86,666 and ordered to pay costs of over £12,000 after a work-experience student was injured on their first ever day of work. Stafford Crown Court heard how the youth was assisting in the delivery of a heavy electrical...
by Russell Worth | Dec 6, 2016 | Accident at Work, Injury at Work, Ladder Fall Accident
An international engineering company has been fined £200,000 and ordered to pay costs of nearly £60,000 after one of their employees died when he fell 30 feet from an electricity pylon. Bilfinger Industrial Services UK Ltd were investigated by the Health and Safety...
by Russell Worth | Nov 21, 2016 | Accident at Work, Accident Claims, Factory Accidents, Injury at Work
A maintenance company has been fined £120,000 and ordered to pay costs of nearly £9,000 after one of its workers fractured bones in his left foot when he fell 7 metres into a pulping machine. Manchester Crown Court heard how an employee of Valmet Ltd was instructed to...
by Russell Worth | Nov 14, 2016 | Accident at Work, Back Injury, Claims, Construction Site Accident, Head Injuries, Injury at Work, Ladder Fall Accident, News
Three companies have been fined a total of over £1million after workers fell around 16 metres when a temporary platform collapsed. A carpenter and a steel-fixer were working on a temporary platform above the opening to a stairwell on the 9th floor of a construction...
