by theEHP | May 12, 2011 | Health & Safety
A Liverpool demolition firm has been fined £5,000 after poor work saw a disused cinema collapse onto a dual carriageway in Thornton Cleveleys. Overview: The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) reported that on 17th June 2010, part of the Orion building, an art-deco...
by theEHP | May 12, 2011 | Health & Safety
A principal contractor has been fined £2,250 after a worker suffered serious head injuries when he fell through a loading platform at a boat building company. Overview The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) reported that on 18 September 2006, Kevin Cleightonhills, 21,...
by theEHP | May 12, 2011 | Health & Safety
A Stourbridge engineering firm has been fined £7,500 after an employee lost his thumb when it was crushed during a lifting operation. Overview: The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) reported that Terence Grove, a 55-year-old mechanical engineer at M I Engineering...
by theEHP | May 12, 2011 | Health & Safety
Two London companies have been fined a total of £5,600 for failing to comply with safety orders issued to protect workers from serious injury. Overview: The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) reported that Churchill Properties (Southern) Ltd and Moseley Green Services...
by theEHP | May 11, 2011 | Health & Safety
An aerospace firm has been fined £14,000 after a worker suffered severe and permanent hand and wrist injuries. Overview The Health & Safety Executive (HSE) reported that the 53-year-old worker from Loughborough, who has asked not to be named, had been making...