A company director has been warned he could be jailed for flouting a court order relating to fire safety regulation compliance. Hugh McGinley of McGinley Construction was found to be in contempt of a High Court injunction which was obtained by Dublin City Council. The injunction was granted in a bid to prevent the usage of a car park below… read more →

Two Leeds-based company directors have been prosecuted after an employee had his fingers crushed in a hydraulic press. The 57-year-old worker, who asked not be named, had the ends of two fingers severed in the incident in April 2009 at Lupton Fabrications Ltd, a metal fabricating company formerly owned by Dennis Brunt and Peter Critchard. During its investigations, The Health… read more →

A Tyneside firm has today been fined £8,000 after a worker’s hand was badly injured when it was drawn between two rotating metal rollers. North Tyneside Magistrates’ Court heard how Gary Burke, 45, of North Shields, lost his little finger and part of the other fingers on his right hand following the incident at Formica Ltd on Coast Road, North… read more →

A Spalding onion packing firm has been fined after a worker broke his shoulder falling from a ladder. Moulton Bulb Company Ltd employee Richard Webster was covering onion boxes with plastic sheeting when he fell around three metres at the firm’s Glebe Farm site at Roman Bank, Spalding, on 10 September 2009. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) investigation found… read more →

A construction worker from Carmarthen suffered life-changing injuries when he fell three metres from the roof of a farm building a court heard today. Gwyndaf Davies, who was 21 at the time of the incident, was helping to re-roof a building at Penwerddu Farm, Boncath on 29 April 2009. He fell through the roof to the concrete floor below suffering… read more →

A restaurant owner has been fined £15,000 for ten breaches of the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 following a serious fire. When crews arrived at the China Wok restaurant in Stokesley, north Yorkshire on 24 January, they found a fire on the ground floor of the premises. Two people who were trapped on the upper floors were rescued by… read more →

A Staffordshire company has been fined £8,000 after one of its workers fell more than two metres from a scaffold tower, fracturing one vertebra, crushing another and leaving him immobilised for more than six weeks. Barry Derbyshire, 61, from Cheadle, Staffordshire, was carrying out routine maintenance on a machine used to make exhaust pipes when he fell on 18 August… read more →

The owner of a Cornish vineyard died after a delivery of empty wine bottles crashed onto him when they fell from the tail lift of a lorry he was helping to unload. Gregory Distribution Ltd of North Park, North Tawton was fined £200,000 with £16,993 costs at Truro Crown Court today (4 August) following a prosecution by the Health and… read more →

An architect’s practice and a construction company involved in a Somerset development have today been fined a total of £195,000 following a fatality on the site. Express Park Construction Company Limited (EPCC), of Harley Street, London, pleaded guilty to breaching Section 3(1) of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 for failing to safely manage subcontractors working for… read more →

Camden Council recently prosecuted two companies and their director for managing a house which posed a serious fire risk to its tenants and fined them more than £32,000. The two companies were found guilty of eight offences relating to the neglect of fire safety precautions. The house, in Swiss Cottage in London, did not feature a fire detection or alarm… read more →