Company fined after worker seriously injures hand
A company has been fined after a worker’s hand was pulled into a large drill causing serious injury.
The aircraft fitter, who worked for GE Aviation Systems Limited, was using the unguarded drill at the firm’s former site on Kings Avenue, Hamble, Hampshire on 3 November 2019.
While using the drill on...Read More »
Diving instructor sentenced after student dies in a training dive
The widow of a man who drowned during an open water training dive has said she now fears water following her husband’s death.
Technical diving instructor, Lance Palmer, has been sentenced after student Roger Clarke, 55, drowned during a training dive in June 2018.
Roger Clarke, a father-of-two from Stafford, was a...Read More »
Company fined after worker breaks rib falling into pit
A company has been fined after a worker fell into a moulding pit and suffered a broken rib.
The Peel Jones Copper Products Limited employee had opened up the company’s site at Maynard Foundry, Kilton Lane, Saltburn on 27 August 2021. The lights inside the company’s casting room were currently off...Read More »
Man left permanently disabled after being crushed by tonne of glass
A company must pay more than £100k after one of its employees was left with life-changing injuries when a pallet of glass weighing more than one tonne fell on top of him.
Andrew Potts, from Nottingham, was left permanently disabled and reliant on a cocktail of medication after breaking his neck...Read More »
£146k fine for company after joiner crushed to death by 20-tonne excavator
A construction company has been fined £146k after a joiner was crushed and killed by a 20-tonne excavator.
Philip McDonald had been hired by Birch Brothers (Kidderminster) Ltd to assist with the construction of a concrete overflow weir structure at Monks Pond, near Ashbourne in Derbyshire.
The 48-year-old was with colleagues on...Read More »