A 16-year-old boy suffered serious injuries after becoming trapped under a tractor while on paid work experience. Tom Cutler was gaining experience of vehicle repair work at Earlcoate Construction & Plant Hire Limited, Folds Farm, in the New Forest, ahead of hopefully starting a vehicle maintenance course at Sparsholt College. On August 3, 2021, the … read more
Bosses who have to shout at work to get heard may not actually be angry! Instead, they may have a noise problem within the workplace. Research on noise induced hearing loss (NIHL) shows around a fifth of the British working population could be exposed to high noise levels while doing their job. While Britain has … read more
A Northwich furniture company has been fined £16,000 after it repeatedly failed to protect its employees from exposure to wood dust. Pineland Furniture Ltd, based on Witton Street in the Cheshire town, was inspected by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) on two separate occasions over a two-year period – with both identifying identical breaches. … read more
A man from Essex has been given a suspended jail sentence after carrying out illegal gas work and breaching a Health and Safety Executive (HSE) enforcement notice. On 18 April 2020, Joshua Pitman, 28, undertook gas work at a house in South Woodham Ferrers, Essex, which included installing gas pipework. However, Mr Pitman’s installation at … read more
A company has been fined £20,000 after an employee’s arm was drawn into machinery and seriously injured. The worker, Piotr Zielinski, 58, from Nottinghamshire, was working for food processing company Belwood Foods Limited. His right arm was drawn into a machine and wrist crushed while cleaning poultry processing machinery at Belwood Food’s site at Lowmoor … read more