A farmer has been fined £8k after a teenage worker suffered serious head injuries when a six-tonne dumper he was driving overturned. The 19-year-old and his friend, who was just 16, had been paid to move material as part of improvement works at Upper Kingswell Farm in the village of Longdown in Exeter. However, farmer […]
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Wine company fined £800k after HGV driver killed at Salford depot
A wine and drinks supplier has been fined after a visiting HGV driver was killed after being hit by a forklift truck at its depot in Salford. John Fitzpatrick was waiting for his trailer to be loaded at Kingsland Drinks Ltd in Irlam on 19 August 2020 when tragedy struck. The 59-year-old, form Oldham, suffered […]
Building firm fined for multiple failings that included workers being lifted by a raised excavator bucket
A building firm has been fined for a catalogue of health and safety failings that included two builders being lifted into the air by a raised excavator bucket. A photograph caught the moment a pair of workers stood in the bucket of a digger to fit a stone into the top of a new home in […]
Company fined after worker breaks rib falling into pit
A company has been fined after a worker fell into a moulding pit and suffered a broken rib. The Peel Jones Copper Products Limited employee had opened up the company’s site at Maynard Foundry, Kilton Lane, Saltburn on 27 August 2021. The lights inside the company’s casting room were currently off and the worker had […]
Man left permanently disabled after being crushed by tonne of glass
A company must pay more than £100k after one of its employees was left with life-changing injuries when a pallet of glass weighing more than one tonne fell on top of him. Andrew Potts, from Nottingham, was left permanently disabled and reliant on a cocktail of medication after breaking his neck in five places following […]