An electric gate company has been fined after a six-year-old boy was fatally crushed whilst playing on a sliding gate installed by the company. Leeds Crown Court heard how, on 31 October 2015, the boy was playing with friends on the gate of an underground car park on Leylands Road, Leeds, pushing it open and …
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read moreA concrete production company has today been fined after a welder lost four fingers during an unsafe lifting operation. Southwark Crown Court heard how on 27 September 2016, at the company’s Kings Cross site in York Way, a forklift was being used to lift and swivel a large metal gate attached to the truck with …
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read moreThree construction companies have been fined after the director of one of the firms received serious injuries after falling 11 metres when a gust of wind blew him off a roof. The three firms, Bowmer and Kirkland Ltd, Advance Roofing Ltd and JKW Roofing were working on the roof of the new three storey teaching …
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read moreA car and commercial vehicle component manufacturer has been fined after two employees suffered burns whilst cleaning a distillation tank. Cheltenham Magistrates’ Court heard how on 11 July 2017 two employees of Delphi Diesel Systems Limited were burnt when the vapour of a flammable chemical, which was being used to clean the distillation tank part …
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read moreEGP Building Services Limited (EGP) has been fined for unsafe gas work which resulted in gas escapes. Subsequent fires were reported at two occupied properties at a new housing development In Warwickshire. Coventry Magistrates’ Court heard how EGP was contracted to undertake gas work at the Bellway Homes development at Heathcote Park, between August 2016 …
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