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Recent articles

Training requirement (in: Court Reports): A haulage company has been fined £5,000 after one of its employees suffered brain damage when he was struck on the head by a 290 kilogram panel saw.

Check registration (in: Court Reports): A Hertfordshire workman who falsely claimed to be a registered gas engineer has been fined £8,000 after installing gas appliances at an address in London.

Devastating incident (in: Court Reports): A Doncaster housing developer has been fined £30,000 after a worker was left paralysed from the chest down when he was crushed by a steel beam weighing more than 660 pounds.

Horrifying injury (in: Court Reports): A Workington company has been fined £15,000 after a steel cable shot through a worker's leg, leaving him with a hole through his shin.

Ignored asbestos (in: Court Reports): A shop fitting company has been fined after five workers were exposed to potentially deadly asbestos fibres. Eastern Regional Shopfitters Ltd, based in Over, Cambridgeshire, was prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) after it ignored a report which stated asbestos was present in a shop it was working on.

Children put at risk (in: Court Reports): A Solihull building firm has been fined £1,000 after failing to take precautions against asbestos while working at a school. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) prosecuted the company after bosses at Greswolde Construction Ltd of Station Road, Knowle, failed to warn its employees that the substance was present despite being in possession of a survey detailing where the asbestos was.

Preventable incident (in: Court Reports): A Tyneside firm has been fined £8,000 after a worker's hand was badly injured when it was drawn between two rotating metal rollers.

Avoidable incident (in: Court Reports): A company has been fined after the hook broke off a tower crane and its four tonne load crashed 36 metres to the ground, narrowly missing a footpath.

Risks were clear (in: Court Reports): Argyll and Bute Council has been fined £20,000 after a man drove off the unprotected edge of a car park situated on a pier, fell into the sea below, and was drowned.

Dangers of height (in: Court Reports): A Stoke-on-Trent steeplejack firm has been fined £8,000 after one of its workers fell from scaffolding causing him injuries that left him in plaster for four months.

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