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Composting site operator fined £50,000 after breaching its permit

Operator of the site, AmeyCespa (East) Ltd, was fined £50,000 and ordered to pay £13,336 costs after a court heard that in July 2014 an employee at a nearby company was suddenly sick at....

Added on: 30/09/2016

Bakery company fined for safety failings

A bakery company based in Hertfordshire has been fined for safety failings.

Stevenage Magistrates’ Court heard how Arnaouti Pitta Bread Bakery Ltd was inspected in April 2015 by the....

Added on: 30/09/2016

Refinery firm fined £400,000 after gangway fall

Valero Energy UK Limited has been fined £400, 000 following a serious accident at its Pembroke Refinery.

Judge Peter Heywood sitting at Swansea Crown Court heard the Berth 6 access ....

Added on: 30/09/2016

Worker Entrapped in Machinery due to Company’s Safety Failings

A composite door manufacturer, Supaglaze Limited trading as Shepley Windows, was fined after an employee’s leg was trapped under machinery causing a serious laceration and fractures.

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Added on: 30/09/2016

Worker suffers life threatening injuries after drum explodes

A Kent company who supplies road safety products has been fined after a worker suffered life threatening injuries when a drum he was working on exploded.

Maidstone Crown Court heard how 4....

Added on: 30/09/2016

Manufacturing company fined for vibration safety failings

A manufacturing company based in Somerset has been fined for safety failings

Somerset Magistrates’ Court heard how employees at LJH Group Limited were identified as being at increas....

Added on: 30/09/2016

West Midlands welding firm fined over worker injury

A Bilston engineering company has been sentenced after a worker was injured while operating a drilling machine.

Wolverhampton Magistrates’ Court heard that Mr Deimantas Beinoras, a ....

Added on: 30/09/2016

Construction company fined £800,000 after worker injured

A Surrey construction company has been fined after a contractor was run over on a large site in Wokingham.

David Cole was a site foreman on the large housing development project, which st....

Added on: 30/09/2016

Hemel Hempstead manufacturer fined £1m following worker’s death

A manufacturing company based in Hemel Hempstead has been fined £1million after a worker was crushed to death by falling machinery.

Colin Reddish, 48, from Lincolnshire was involved....

Added on: 30/09/2016

Somerset manufacturer prosecuted for workers death

A company in Somerset has been fined after the death of a worker who fell through a factory roof skylight.

Taunton Crown Court heard Samuel Wright Maxwell, 46, of Wells Somerset was emplo....

Added on: 30/09/2016