by Russell Worth | Jan 10, 2017 | Accident at Work, Accident Claims, Factory Accidents, Injury at Work, News
An engineering company from the North East has been fined £150,000 after two of its workers were severely burned when they were sprayed with dangerous chemicals whilst cleaning a pipe-work system. Newcastle Crown Court heard how the two workers were seriously injured...
by Russell Worth | Jan 10, 2017 | Accident Claims, News, Personal Injury
An Essex property management firm has been fined £120,000 and ordered to pay costs of £45,000 after a resident of one of its properties died after becoming trapped in a lift. Bolton Crown Court heard how Craig Jones, a 29 year old resident of Marsden House in Bolton...
by Russell Worth | Dec 19, 2016 | Accident Claims, News, Personal Injury
A farmer from near Bradford on Avon has been fined and ordered to pay costs of £30,000 after two members of the public were injured – one fatally – by cows in his field. The two elderly brothers; Mike and John Porter, were walking their dogs on leads along a public...
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 | Nov 28, 2016 | Claims, News, Personal Injury
Powys County Council has been fined £75,000 and ordered to pay costs of £16,000 after a four-year-old boy nearly drowned during a swimming lesson. Swansea Crown Court heard how the boy’s father had gone to collect him from the lesson when he found him lying face down...
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...
