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Company Director sentenced for waste offences

Mark Smyth, aged 40, from Pershore, Worcestershire was sentenced to 12 months imprisonment suspended for 18 months, with 200 hours unpaid work following a prosecution brought by the Environment Age....

Added on: 31/08/2017

Million pound fine for steel company after worker severely burnt following explosion

A 57-year-old man’s employer has been fined £1m after an oxygen pipe exploded in front of him.

The Sheffield Forgemasters Engineering Limited (SFEL) worker suffered life chang....

Added on: 30/06/2017

Waste recycling company fined after worker scalded

A waste company has been sentenced today after one of its workers received severe burns to his upper body and face.

SUEZ Recycling and Recovery Tees Valley Ltd operates the site at Havert....

Added on: 30/06/2017

Engineering company fined after worker suffers hand injury

Thermal Engineering Ltd has been fined after a worker suffered a serious hand injury after a machinery incident.

Luton and South Bedfordshire Magistrates’ Court heard how on 15 Dece....

Added on: 30/06/2017

Company fined after uncontrolled fire

 

Vertellus Specialties UK Limited has today been fined after an uncontrolled fire at the company’s Seal Sands premises in Middlesbrough.

Teesside Crown Court heard t....

Added on: 30/06/2017

Company fined after failing to comply with enforcement action

Hatchmere Park Ltd has been fined after failing to comply with enforcement safety notices.

On 12 March 2015, a Health and Safety Executive (HSE) inspector visited the construction site at....

Added on: 30/06/2017

Company and contractor fined after member of public struck by fencing wire

A civil engineering company (R M Contractors Limited aka RMC), and a contractor working on behalf of a tree surgery company Complete Tree Services (CTS) have been sentenced after a member of the pu....

Added on: 30/06/2017

Company fined after the death of worker

A North East based contractor Pyeroy Ltd has been fined due to failings in their work at height rescue planning.

Plymouth Magistrates Court heard that on 21 October 2013 Mr Keith Stevens,....

Added on: 30/06/2017

Tesco hit with major £8million fine for pollution incident

Tesco Stores Ltd has been ordered to pay over £8million in fines and costs after pleading guilty to a pollution incident.

The incident, which occurred in July 2014, sparked a huge m....

Added on: 30/06/2017

Company and director sentenced after pollution incidents

A company and its director have received fines and costs totalling £33,000 after significantly polluting a stream with blood and then failing to notify the Environment Agency.

The c....

Added on: 30/06/2017