newsFirm fined over cooling tower drowning
A maintenance contractor must pay a total of £155,000 after a man drowned after falling into a water filled sump at a North Wales power station.
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newsWorkplace ill health and injury continuing to fall
New figures show the ongoing trend for falls in the number of people injured and made unwell at work has continued.
newsMan dead after forklift fall
The HSE has called the lifting of workers on forklifts disgraceful. The comment comes as fines totalling £100,000 were imposed on two firms following the death of a man who fell 4 metres from a stillage resting on a forklift.
productDate change for FFI scheme
The Health and Safety Executive
(HSE) has announced that its cost
recovery scheme, Fee for
Intervention, is going ahead but will
now not start in April 2012.
The scheme sets out to recover
costs from those who break
newsTeenage workers seriously injured after falling from height
A Derbyshire manufacturing firm and its director have been fined after two teenage agency workers fell from a lifting platform.
newsLittle improvement in workplace fatalities
Provisional data released by the HSE shows for April 2011 to March 2012 173 workers were killed – down two from the previous year.
newsDairy firm sentenced over explosion at Allerdale factory
A national dairy firm has been sentenced following a major explosion at its cheese factory in Cumbria.
newsHead injury leads to fine for components firm
A company which manufactures metal components has been fined after a young worker was seriously injured at its Lincoln factory.
newsWorker suffers life changing condition after company ignores ozone danger
A Kegworth soft drinks manufacturer has been fined after a contractor was exposed to ozone gas while servicing a UV light system in a plant room.
newsPlastics firm fined over employee’s finger injury
An employee at a Burnley plastics firm narrowly avoided severing his fingers when his hand came into contact with a rotating blade, a court has heard.
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