14 June 2017 A company director and site foreman have been found guilty of manslaughter after the death of a carpenter who fell through a floor void when the scaffolding board he stepped on snapped. The incident, which took place in September 2014, occurred only a year after a Health …
The average cost of health and safety fines in 2016 far outstripped the cost of compliance, according to a new study from health and safety consultants. The research found that businesses paid an average of £115,440 in fines after being found guilty of health and safety breaches in 2016. The …
Crest Nicholson Operations, the principal contractor of a large housing development project in Surrey, has been fined after a worker was run over by a heavy goods vehicle (HGV). CDM failing costs Crest Nicholson £800k David Cole, who was contracted to Harlequin Brickwork, was working as a foreman on the …
Failure to plan on multi-storey refurbishment put over 100 lives at risk A Company carrying out construction work to convert an eight storey former Ford office block into 384 flats has been prosecuted for safety failings that put many at risk. On the 26 May 2015, HSE was contacted by the Essex County …
Greg Pearson, from Enfield, trading as ‘Pearsons Scaffolding’, was prosecuted by the HSE after the concerns were raised about scaffolding work being carried out on Tavistock Street in central London. HSE visited the site twice and found the incomplete scaffold to be poorly erected and unsafe work practices were …
A Cheshire building contractor, Phillip Affleck, has been fined for serious health breaches and lack of welfare facilities on a Culcheth building site. Trafford Magistrates’ Court heard that the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) received a complaint from a member of the public in May 2014 about the …
A farm company was sentenced today after admitting safety failures relating to a worker falling five and a half meters through an abattoir skylight. In June 2014, Mr Attila Bus was asked by his supervisor to clean the gutter on the abattoir owned by Tottingworth Farms Ltd. Eastbourne magistrates heard …
A construction firm has been sentenced for safety failings after four workers were injured, one of them seriously, when a roof truss in a new extension collapsed during construction causing several others to fall. Four men working on the extension were caught in the collapse at premises in Brandon …
A kitchen fitter left a gas pipe in a dangerous state in a customer’s home, while falsely claiming to be a registered gas engineer. Matthew Heath removed the kitchen hob in September 2014 but failed to cap the remaining gas pipe, meaning potentially lethal gas could fill the home in …
A farming company was fined £2,000 and ordered to pay costs of £483 after the fiancée of one of the company directors sustained life-changing head injuries when she lost control of an all-terrain vehicle (ATV) at one of GNB Farm Ltd’s mid-Devon Farms. The director’s fiancée was hospitalised for …
