A Manchester-based roofer has today been sentenced after breaching health and safety laws. Greater Manchester Magistrates’ Court heard how Michael Anthony Roden (who also trades as M&R Roofing and Onyx Roofing) and his employee were contracted to carry out roof replacement work at Wheildons Butchers, Manchester. Mr Roden failed to implement any form of edge […]
Month: June 2018
No safe system of work leads to serious leg injuries for employees
An engineering company was sentenced today after two employees were seriously injured during work to dispose of old gas cylinders at the company’s site in Hull. Beverley Magistrates’ Court heard how a worker at Redhall Engineering Services Ltd was asked to decommission approximately eight or nine gas cylinders believed to contain oxygen. The employee laid […]
Care home fined after worker fell down a lift shaft
A care home was sentenced after an employee suffered significant injuries after falling around 1.5 metres down a lift shaft. Northampton Magistrates’ Court heard how the employee was using the platform lift to transport the residents’ breakfasts from the kitchen to the dining room on a different floor. An interlock system which meant that the […]
Sole trader fined after self-employed worker injured at their premises
An East Lothian-based sole trader was today fined after a self-employed furniture maker was injured on their premises. Edinburgh Sheriff Court heard how a self-employed furniture maker was working on the premises owned by Peter Anselm Fraser, trading as A and A Fraser Property. Whilst the furniture maker was moving wood over the planer blade, […]
Devon construction company fined £60,000 for lack of planned preventative maintenance systems involving MEWPs
A Devon based construction company has been fined after placing employees and members of the public at risk of serious injury by failing to suitably maintain their fleet of lorry mounted elevated work platforms (MEWP). Following a fatal incident in Dawlish in 2014, a subsequent investigation by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) found that […]