The first company to be prosecuted under the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2008, Cotswold Geotechnical Holdings Ltd, has been fined £385,000. The company, which had a turnover of £333,000 in 2008, the year the incident occurred, will be able to pay the fine (which represents 116% of that turnover) over a ten-year period, with £38,500 due every year… read more →
A Lancashire businessman has been sentenced after one of his employees broke his back when he fell off a ladder. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) prosecuted Michael Wilson following the incident at Roadferry Transport Yard on Carr Lane in Farington, Leyland, on 3 March 2010. South Ribble Magistrates’ Court in Leyland heard that the man, who has asked not… read more →
A national budget retailer has been fined £20,000 for fire safety breaches in one of its stores. Poundland Ltd found themselves facing the fine after its store on Commercial Road, Portsmouth was judged unsafe by fire safety investigators. The fire safety in the retail outlet was so poor that the inspectors, from Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service, evacuated the store… read more →
A director and an administration manager of the company that owned the Penhallow Hotel in Newquay, where three people died in a fire in 2007, have appeared in court. John McMillan, a director of O&C Holdsworth Ltd, Nicola Burfitt, the company’s group administration manager, along with the company itself, face four charges under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005.… read more →
A brewery has been ordered to pay £27,481 in fines and costs after pleading guilty to serious breaches of fire safety legislation following a prosecution brought by the London Fire Brigade. Punch Taverns PLC admitted guilt on seven contraventions of the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005. Sentencing occurred on Thursday 6 January 2011 at Thames Magistrates Court. The Milestone… read more →
THE death of two workers on 7th December 2010, at a Merseyside factory, led to calls for a manslaughter probe by an MP. Rossendale and Darwen MP Jake Berry demanded the investigation after his constituents Thomas Elmer, 27, and James Bibby, 25, both from Rossendale, Lancashire, were killed at the Sonae chipboard plant, in Kirkby. The two men were dragged… read more →
A home wares store in Hartlepool has been fined for breaching fire safety regulations, emphasising in monetary terms the necessity of fire risk assessments. The owning company of B&M Homestores, based in Highlight Retail Park, has been slapped with a £7,500 fine and has been ordered to pay £4,000 in court fees, reports the Hartlepool Mail. Fire safety officers discovered… read more →
A building contractor was fined along with the director of a surgical centre after safety inspectors found multiple failings on the site of a new clinic extension. A Health and Safety Executive (HSE) inspection revealed that no project planning or safety measures were in place on the site of the new two-storey extension at the McIndoe Surgical Centre in East… read more →
A national chain of bakers has been fined £50,000 after pleading guilty to serious breaches of Fire Safety Order regulations at one of its stores. Greggs was fined £50,000 and forced to pay £20,326 in costs after London Fire Brigade (LFB) prosecuted the company following an audit of one of its shops in Brentford in 2008. Fire safety inspectors found… read more →
Two companies from Cardiff and Surrey have been prosecuted today after a man fell to his death through a roof light. Surrey-based Open Contracts Ltd, and Cardiff-based sub-contractor Malcolm Dunn, have today been prosecuted at Southwark Crown Court following the death of a worker. On 7 July 2007, Paul Morrissey, 57, of Penarth, Cardiff, fell to his death while working… read more →
