Scottish judges have substantially increased a fine payable by a construction company convicted last year of health and safety offences. Construction firm Discovery Homes (Scotland) Ltd were originally fined £5,000 following the death of Polish worker, Andrezej Freitag, in 2008 but now have to pay eight times the amount. At the original hearing in June 2009, the company was found… read more →
A Brighton-based construction company and two of its directors have been fined a total of £75,000 following the death of a member of the public at one of its building sites. The HSE prosecuted PIB (UK) Ltd for breaching section 3(1) of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974. The company pleaded guilty and was fined £30,000 and ordered… read more →
An electrician employed by East Ayrshire Council died because of failings of his employer, a court heard. At a hearing at Kilmarnock Sheriff Court, on 16 June, 2010, East Ayrshire Council pled guilty to a charge under section 2 of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 and was fined £56,000 the following day. The Court heard how… read more →
The directors of a Bedfordshire bakery have been fined after a series of health and safety breaches exposed staff to serious danger – including electrocution and exposure to flour dust. Genaro Saiano and Dejan Durkin, the directors of DG Bakery Ltd, based in Harrowden Road, Bedford, appeared at Bedford and Mid-Bedfordshire Magistrates’ Court today facing health and safety charges. The… read more →
A West Sussex-based company, Flowserve (GB) Ltd, was fined £150,000 today (4 June 2010) at Lewes Crown Court following the death of a 21-year-old employee. The prosecution follows an investigation by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) after an incident on 7 May 2008 at Flowserve (GB) Ltd’s site in Burrell Road in Haywards Heath. Philip Locke, a 21-year-old employee… read more →
Two self-employed roofers have been fined today (7th June 2010) at Chippenham Magistrates Courts for failing to take appropriate safety precautions when working on a private building in Wiltshire. Antony Brian Sweet, of Wood Lane, Chippenham, and Christopher Ernest Cole, of Chippenham Road, Langley Burrell, Wiltshire, were prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) for working dangerously at height… read more →
American Airlines has today (4th June 2010) been fined £70,000 after one of its workers had to have his leg amputated following an incident at Heathrow Airport. On the evening of 11 November 2008 ground support worker Kulwant Bhara, 45, from Slough, was preparing an aircraft at Terminal 3 at London Heathrow Airport. A 70-tonne ‘pushback tug’, used to move… read more →
The owner and general manager of The Park Hotel in Leicester has this week been handed down fines and costs totalling £40,000 for ten serious breaches of fire safety regulations. On 13 August 2009 fire crews attended The Park Hotel in response to a fire that had broken out on the first floor of the premises. As firefighters attempted to… read more →
The employers of a man whose hand was severely injured on a poorly-guarded spice mixing machine were sentenced today. Bradford food manufacturer Arcadia Food Industries Limited was prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) after the incident in which the machine severed one of the employee’s fingers and badly cut the other. Bradford Magistrates Court heard the man was… read more →
An Essex car wash owner who failed to purchase compulsory insurance to protect his employees was fined yesterday. Bledar Shtylaa, who owns Blue Flag Hand Car Wash on Station Industrial Estate, Burnham-on-Crouch, was fined £2,500 at Chelmsford Magistrates Court. The court heard how he failed to produce a current Employers’ Liability Compulsory Insurance (ELCI) certificate when a Health and Safety… read more →
