£240,000 fine for company after fall left man paralysed
A Cheshire-based electrical transmission company has been fined £240,000 after a man was left paralysed from the chest down after a fall at work.
Gavin Pugh, from Bangor in North Wales, was 35 at the time of the incident and employed as a linesman by Wood Transmission and Distribution Limited. He...Read More »
Engineering firm fined after employee sustains serious injuries at HS2 site
An engineering firm has been fined after an employee suffered a fractured skull, hip, jaw and pelvis, while working at a HS2 construction site in Hertfordshire.
The man, employed as a mechanical engineer by EMC Elite Engineering Services Ltd, had been repairing a conveyor at the site on Chalfont Lane, West...Read More »
Company and director fined after worker fractures skull
A company and its director have been fined after an employee was struck by an object while manufacturing large steel cable drums for the offshore industry.
The man, who is now 54, had been working for Code-A-Weld (Great Yarmouth) Ltd when the incident happened on 19 November 2022. Although the company...Read More »
Council fined as school technician loses finger
A local authority has been sentenced after a worker lost his finger while operating a machine.
Adi Soday, a technician at The Forest School in Horsham, lost his right index finger when it was sliced off by a circular bench saw on 13 June 2022.
The 29-year-old, who worked in the design...Read More »
Explosives manufacturer fined £670,000 after worker dies
A manufacturer of military explosives has been fined £670,000 after an employee was killed and another seriously injured in an explosion at its factory near Salisbury.
The two men were working on the production of MTV – an explosive substance used in military flares – at the premises of Chemring Countermeasures...Read More »