Employee crushed by bus suffers life-changing injuries
A bus company has been fined £380,000 after one of its employees was crushed between a reversing bus and a stationary vehicle.
The employee of Stagecoach Devon Limited was working at the company’s Torquay depot on the morning of 3 October 2019.
Due to space limitations, buses often had to reverse to...Read More »
Company fined after worker falls from a fork-lift truck while cleaning windows
A carpentry and joinery company has been fined after a man working unsecured on the forks of a fork-lift truck fell 3.5 metres to the ground.
On 14 June 2021, the man was working for Staircraft Group Limited at their head office site at Bayton Road Industrial Estate, Exhall, Coventry.
The employee...Read More »
The Lighthouse Construction Industry Charity joins HSE’s Working Minds campaign
HSE’s Working Minds campaign has added to its partner roster with the addition of the Lighthouse Construction Industry Charity.
Construction is one of the key focus sectors for the campaign and the Lighthouse Construction Industry Charity provides a new route for...Read More »
Construction company fined £600K after death of seven-year-old
A civil engineering firm has been fined £600K for safety breaches after a seven-year-old child became trapped and suffocated on a construction site.
Seven-year-old Conley Thompson went missing from home on the morning of 26 July 2015 and was found the next morning by workers at the construction site at Bank...Read More »
Mining company fined after electricians sustain burns
A mining company has been fined after two electricians suffered severe burns in separate incidents.
The owners of Boulby Mine in Saltburn-by-the-Sea were fined £3.6 million and ordered to pay costs of £185,000 after an investigation by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE).
Cleveland Potash Limited (CPL) own the mine, which extracts...Read More »