by theEHP | May 6, 2011 | Health & Safety
A Hertfordshire-based electrical company has been fined £120,000 after a man was left paralysed when he was knocked from a scissor lift. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) prosecuted Skanska Rashleigh Weatherfoil Ltd after the incident happened on the 25 January...
by theEHP | May 5, 2011 | Housing
A Nuneaton landlord has been given a suspended six-month prison sentence for repeatedly failing to carry out annual gas inspections on one of his properties. The Health & Safety Executive (HSE) reported that in October 2009 it discovered that Mr Boote, a landlord,...
by theEHP | May 5, 2011 | Health & Safety
An Oldham company has been fined £10,000 for putting its workers’ lives in danger from poorly maintained and dangerous electrics. Townfield Manufacturing Co Ltd was prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) after inspectors uncovered a series of...
by theEHP | May 5, 2011 | Health & Safety
Hertfordshire farm owners fined £4,000 each after an employee fell through a fragile barn roof suffering multiple fractures. The Health & Safety Executive (HSE) reported that on 6 August 2010, Stefan Wasilewski, 39, was cleaning the roof of a barn at Ugley Hall...
by theEHP | May 3, 2011 | Health & Safety
An animal grain company has been fined £4,000 after one of its workers suffered head injuries after a 1.5m fall. IOSH reported that mill worker Douglas Mortimer had been preparing animal feed in his role for East Coast Viners Grain LLP, of Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire,...
