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Man suffers broken bone after arm pierced by steal rods

06 February 2012

The Health and Safety Executive has prosecuted a company after an employee suffered a broken right arm during an accident at work.Machine operator Steven Rowe had his arm impaled by two steel bars when attempting to fix a contraption...

New employees 'most at risk of accident at work'

03 February 2012

New and inexperienced individuals are the most likely to experience an accident at work, firms have been warned.Speaking at the RenewableUK Health and Safety 2012 conference in Manchester, chair of the Health and Safety Executive...

Accident at work death sees construction firm prosecuted

02 February 2012

A construction company has been prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) after an accident at work led to the death of an employee.Craig Page suffered crush injuries to his upper body after the boom of a crane struck him...

Broken bone leads to accident claim

01 February 2012

An accident claim has been brought against two companies after a worker in North Yorkshire suffered a broken foot when a weight landed on his reinforced safety boots.The 13kg weight fell nearly four metres from an overhead crane that...

Fatal accident at work results in £65k fine

31 January 2012

An accident at work that led to the death of a lorry driver has resulted in a Hampshire lift manufacturer being fined £65,000 and ordered to pay costs of £60,000.The Health and Safety Executive prosecuted Wessex Lift Company...

Accident at work results in fractured leg

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30 January 2012

A boat building company in Hampshire has been fined after a worker suffered an accident at work that is likely to leave him with long-term damage.The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) prosecuted Green Marine claiming it showed a dangerous...

Roof fall leads to broken bones and company fine

27 January 2012

A construction firm has been fined £10,000 and ordered to pay £19,000 costs after an employee suffered several broken bones in an accident at work.Fred Lewis Scaffold Company was prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive...

Punctured arm accident at work leads to fine

26 January 2012

A flooring company has been prosecuted after failure to attach guarding to a machine led to an employee suffering an accident at work.Weldon Contract in Norwell was fined £6,000 and ordered to pay £4,773 costs at Nottingham...

Accident at work sees van firm fined

25 January 2012

Nottinghamshire firm Van Elle has been fined by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) after an employee suffered an accident at work.The unnamed worker was operating a wheeled excavator during widening work on the M1 motorway when...

Worker loses 3 fingers in manufacturing accident at work

24 January 2012

A manufacturing company has been fined £7,000 following an accident at work that resulted in an employee losing three fingers on his right hand.The incident at Sansetsu's Buckinghamshire factory led to the Health and Safety...

Casting company fined following employee burns

23 January 2012

Burns sustained by a factory worker in Staffordshire has led to an aluminium casting company being prosecuted.JVM Castings pleaded guilty breaching the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and was fined £6,000, as well as ordered...

Accident at work 'left employee in constant pain'

20 January 2012

A court has heard how an accident at work has left one former DS Smith Packaging employee in "constant pain" after his arm was crushed.Daryl Bushnell was thrown over a semi-automatic rewinder machine he had been working...

Accident at work leads to fine at sign-making firm

19 January 2012

A sign-making firm has been fined after an employee suffered an accident at work that left him with severe bruising.The Edinburgh Evening News reports how Chris Heatlie was hospitalised overnight after falling 25ft through a skylight...

Accident at work leads to plastics firm fine

18 January 2012

A fine has been brought against a plastics firm that was found responsible for failing to protect a staff member from having an accident at work.An employee at DuBois Ltd in Corby severed his finger while trying to fix a problem with...

Headphones-related traffic accidents soar

17 January 2012

The number of people involved in a traffic accident while wearing headphones has tripled in the past six years, a new study shows.Researchers uncovered a sharp increase in injuries to people wearing headphones in public, with teenagers,...

Man dies after beam fell on him in accident at work

16 January 2012

A worker has been killed in a tragic accident at work after a large steel beam fell on him.Colin Dickinson, 38, of Motherwell, Lanarkshire, died when the temporary suspension points on a suspender beam he was underneath failed and...

Door firm fined after employee loses fingers in accident at work

13 January 2012

A door manufacturer has been fined after a machine operator was involved in an accident at work causing him severe and permanent hand injuries.Hugo Valdes Vera was working at SIG Manufacturing Ltd on Milnhay Road, Langley Mill, Derbyshire...

Firm fined after accident at work left man partially disabled

12 January 2012

A logistics firm has been fined after an accident at work left one employee with a broken neck.Barry Hill, 60, was loading goods onto a truck at Palletways (UK) Ltd, Fradley Distribution Park, when he noticed that one of the computer...

Father of two left paraplegic after accident at work

11 January 2012

A scaffolding firm has been fined after a worker lost his ability to walk in an accident at work.David Collins was unloading 21 ft long scaffolding tubes from the back of a truck using a vehicle-mounted crane.He was standing under...

Thorntons fined after accident at work

10 January 2012

Chocolate chain Thorntons was fined after a worker broke her finger in an accident at work.Ellen Yardley, 37, was working on a foil wrapping machine at the firm's plan in Somercotes, Derbyshire, where chocolates were wrapped in...