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Imprisonment for Norfolk illegal waste owner

Operator breached planning and environmental rules

Waste operator Mark Edward Fuller has been sentenced to 15 months imprisonment for running an illegal waste site in N....

Added on: 31/03/2016

Company and director to pay over £30,000 for waste offences

On 24 March 2016, D Jordan Road Brush Hire Ltd and David Thomas Jordan appeared at Worcestershire Magistrates Court for waste offences.

D Jordan Road Brush Hire Ltd, of Cockshot Farm, Coc....

Added on: 31/03/2016

Company fined for illegal waste offences

A South Devon company has been ordered to pay £15,760.10 in fines and costs for storing waste including hazardous asbestos roof tiles at an unlicensed site.

The case was brought by ....

Added on: 22/02/2016

Scrapyard boss given suspended prison sentence

The owner of a Wiltshire scrapyard and recycling company has received an 18 month prison sentence suspended for two years for running an illegal waste operation from a site in Melksham. The case wa....

Added on: 22/02/2016

Port operator fined after worker injured by capstan

An Essex maritime terminal worker suffered serious injury after his arm became wrapped around a powered capstan, while mooring an ocean-going vessel.

Basildon Crown Court today imposed a ....

Added on: 27/01/2016

Firm Sentenced after worker loses hand in Machine

A Manchester waste plastic recycling firm has been fined after an employee’s hand was severed when dragged into a granulator machine.

CP Plastics Limited was prosecuted by the Healt....

Added on: 27/01/2016

Environment Agency clamping down on illegal waste carriers

Waste vehicles have come under the spotlight across Essex, South London and Hertfordshire in a multi-agency stop-and-check operation.

The Environment Agency has been working with the Driv....

Added on: 27/01/2016

Worker suffered fatal crush injuries after being hit by lorry

A commercial vehicle company was ordered to pay £212,500 in fines and costs after one of its workers was killed when a lorry travelling at less than 5km/h crushed him. Warwick Crown Court heard Imper....

Added on: 27/11/2015

Food firm fined after worker’s injury

A food manufacturing firm has been sentenced after an employee had two fingers severed in a workplace incident. On Monday 2 November 2015, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), prosecuting, told Bost....

Added on: 06/11/2015

Animal feed transport company fined £80,000 after death of worker

A transport company was fined £80,000 after one of its employees died when he was buried under tonnes of wheat being unloaded from a lorry. Andrew Scott Harrold, 33, was working at Transpan (Scotlan....

Added on: 22/05/2015