Roofing firm and company business partner sentenced following HSE investigations
- Company fined for failings in two separate incidents.
- Two workers seriously injured after falling through roofs in separate incidents.
- Business partner at scaffolding firm sentenced following incident in Swansea.
A roofing company has been fined a total of £881,000 after two workers were seriously injured during two separate incidents.
Billy Hewitt, a worker at...Read More »
November 2023 – A roundup of HSE’s top stories
In November we published more Health and Safety Executive (HSE) stories than any other month this year. They include the prosecution of a major movie production company following an incident on the set Fast and Furious 9, a £1.4 million fine for a cider maker following the tragic death of...Read More »
Care home fined £125,000 after teenager’s death
A care home in Bristol has been fined for not doing enough to keep people safe from vulnerable patients who posed a danger to themselves and others.
The complex Health and Safety Executive (HSE) investigation and prosecution follows the death of Melissa Mathieson at Alexandra House on 12 October 2014. Jason...Read More »
Renowned cider manufacturer fined following grandad’s death
A cider manufacturer has been fined after a much-loved grandfather was killed on his 65th birthday.
Tommy Manns, from Dymock, Gloucestershire, was driving for H Weston and Sons Limited, the manufacturer of Henry Westons Cider, when he was killed by the end of a security barrier on 28 September 2020.
H Weston...Read More »
Firms fined over £600k after dad dies from fall
A further two companies have been fined after a dad died following a fall from the roof of a building site in Warrington.
Father-of-one Dennis Vincent, 36, and another worker were using ropes to install a lightning protection system to the front of an office block being converted into flats.
Mr Vincent,...Read More »