Fine for company and director after employee falls through roof light
- HSE guidance says all work at height must be properly planned
A construction company and its director have been fined after a worker fell through the roof of a sheep barn.
Jack Croft, 30, suffered life changing injuries after the incident in Leyburn, North Yorkshire.
He was working for Norman Iveson Steel Products,...Read More »
Company fined after worker exposed to radiation
A multi-national company has been fined £26,000 after a radiographer was overexposed to ionising radiation.
The 69-year-old man had been working for Mistras Group Limited at its former site in Hartlepool in December 2020, when the company was notified by their approved dosimetry service that he had received a dose...Read More »
“No-one is in charge of health and safety” – stone company fined after workshop floor covered in hazardous dust
- HSE inspectors left stunned by employee concerns
- HSE guidance on artificial stone dust recently updated
A company that manufactures popular stone kitchen worktops has been fined £60,000 after it repeatedly failed to protect workers from exposure to hazardous dust.
Inspectors from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) visited Inova Stone Ltd nine times...Read More »
Two companies fined after worker injured in fall from height
- Working at height a leading cause of workplace injury and death, HSE guidance is available.
Two Shrewsbury-based companies have been fined after a worker fell through a roof during extension work on a house extension the town.
The injured man was one of several workers employed by Roofrite (Shropshire) Limited carrying out...Read More »
Wood supplier hit with £40,000 for failing to protect workers from dust
- Workshop caked in dust when HSE inspected
- Guidance is available to prevent excessive exposure
A wood supplier has been fined £40,000 for failing to protect its workers from exposure to wood dust.
Fakenham-based Nat Pal Limited was visited by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) in April 2023. Dust was found scattered across...Read More »