Lincoln Magistrates Court heard that, two employees of Beeswax Dyson Farming Ltd had the ends of their index fingers severed whilst attempting to re-insert a 37kg shaft into the housing of a pump at an engineering premises in Boston. The employees were holding the shaft as it was pressed back into its housing with the […]
Tag: Health & Safety
Custodial sentence for builder who failed to report an incident resulting in an amputation.
A builder has been imprisoned for 24 weeks after he failed to report a serious incident at a construction site he was in charge of. Westminster Magistrates’ Court heard that, worker Simon Lewis had been clearing a site on Clarence Avenue, New Malden with an excavator so a new house could be built. The excavator […]
Poundstretcher fined £1m for 24 safety offences
Three local authorities brought complaints against Poundstretcher for multiple safety offences, including overstocking, ‘chaotic’ warehouse conditions, bad management practice Read more
Tenant falls and suffers serious injuries due to badly planned works
Two companies have been fined for failing to properly plan, monitor and coordinate balcony refurbishment works, putting workers and the public in danger and causing serious in Read more
Schoolboy loses finger in crush incident at poultry and farm shop
A business partner has been fined after a schoolboy, doing casual weekend work at a poultry and farm shop, lost a finger after suffering a crush injury whilst collecting split Read more