Plastics manufacturer fined as worker suffers multiple leg fractures
A plastics manufacturer in Kent has been fined £400,000 after an employee was seriously injured by a forklift truck.
The man was struck by the vehicle while walking to collect materials at FloPlast Limited’s site at Eurolink Business Park on 4 July 2023.
The driver of the forklift truck failed to see...Read More »
Ginsters owner fined £1.28m after employee crushed to death by lorry
The owner of Ginsters has been fined £1.28 million after an employee was killed by a lorry that was delivering supplies to the bakery where it makes its pasties.
Paul Clarke was fatally crushed on 2 December 2021 after being struck by the vehicle as it reversed into a loading bay...Read More »
Company fined after worker killed by telehandler
A construction company has been fined £160,000 after a man was killed by a telehandler at a house build site in Glasgow.
Scott Bradley had been reversing the vehicle at the Stepford Road site when it slid down an embankment and overturned on 11 May 2022.
The 44-year-old, employed by Merchant Homes...Read More »
Fine for council after man ‘who loved life’ killed by falling tree
Cheshire East Council (the council) has been fined £500,000 after ‘the most amazing man’ was killed by a falling tree.
Christopher Hall, 48, from Wilmslow, was walking his dog in The Carrs – one of the town’s parks – on 28 August 2020, when the large limb of a tree fell...Read More »
Manchester engineering firm fined after apprentice loses fingers
A Manchester-based engineering company has been fined £500,000 after a young apprentice lost the use of two fingers when using a horizontal bandsaw.
The apprentice, who was just 18 at the time, suffered the serious injuries to his fingers in an incident at Proline Engineering Limited in Worsely, on 7 November...Read More »