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Company owner jailed for 15 months

A waste criminal whose actions resulted in the closure of the M60, polluted a river and blighted communities has been disqualified from being a company director for 6 years and sentenced to 15 mont....

Added on: 27/04/2017

Waste firm AWM fined £125,000 for causing odour pollution

Waste firm Associated Waste Management Ltd has been fined £125,000 for causing odour pollution at its sites in Leeds and Bradford.

The company was sentenced at Leeds Crown Court on ....

Added on: 30/03/2017

Essex wood waste site fined for illegal waste operation

JSJ Wood Recycling Ltd and two directors have been ordered to pay fines totalling just under £12,000 with additional victim surcharges taking the figure to over £12,000 for treating woo....

Added on: 30/03/2017

Thames Water ordered to pay record £20 million for river pollution

Thames Water Utilities Ltd (Thames Water) has today (22 March) been fined an unprecedented £20,361,140.06 in fines and costs for a series of significant pollution incidents on the River Thame....

Added on: 30/03/2017

Contractor fined for poor asbestos assessment

A Bedfordshire based contractor has been fined after failing to carry out suitable assessment of asbestos removal work.

Luton Magistrates Court heard how Anthony West was contracted to co....

Added on: 30/03/2017

£300k fine for concrete firm after employee has leg amputated

A producer of concrete blocks has been fined £300,000 after an employee had to have a leg amputated.

Newcastle-under-Lyme Magistrates’ Court heard the 42-year-old man was work....

Added on: 30/03/2017

Construction firm fined after worker fell from height

Construction company Kier Construction Limited has been fined £400,000 after a worker fell from height.

Westminster Magistrates’ Court heard how Jair Morales was installing pl....

Added on: 30/03/2017

Company fined after worker’s foot was exposed to machinery

A company that produces and supplies wood shavings for use as horse bedding has been fined after a worker suffered a serious foot injury at its site in Andover, Hampshire.

Basingstoke Mag....

Added on: 30/03/2017

£600,000 fine for Council contractor after major burns to employer

Gloucester Crown Court heard the 61-year-old man was working at the site on Eastgate Street on 29 May 2015. While trying to replace the traffic light pole he came into contact with a live undergrou....

Added on: 30/03/2017

Construction worker seriously injured in wall collapse

A Manchester building contractor and a company owner have appeared in court after a worker was seriously injured on a refurbishment site.

The 53-year-old father of two from Salford was em....

Added on: 30/03/2017