HSE: Latest Prosecution Results: February 2023
HSE: Latest Prosecution Results: February 2023 Health board fined £180,000 after patient dies A health board has been fined £180,000 after a patient died while being treated at a hospital. Colin Lloyd, 78, was brought to Raigmore Hospital, Inverness, on 6 February 2019 following a suspected fall at his home and later admitted to the hospital’s […]
HSE: Latest Prosecution Results: January 2023
HSE: Latest Prosecution Results: January 2023 Civil engineering firm fined £4.4m following M6 works Civil engineering firm Kier has been fined more than £4m after its workers twice struck overhead powerlines while working on the M6 motorway causing cables to land in the path of passing vehicles. In one incident, an overhead cable the workers […]
HSE: Latest Prosecution Results: December 2022
HSE: Latest Prosecution Results: December 2022 Fire authority fined after firefighter breaks both legs A fire authority has been fined after a firefighter was trapped underneath a car in a training exercise, breaking his legs in more than a dozen places. The firefighter was setting up a simulated road traffic collision with colleagues at Stockton […]
The HSE release their annual work-related ill-health and injury statistics
The HSE release their annual work-related ill-health and injury statistics Work-related injuries and new cases of ill health (excluding long latency illness) totalled an estimated cost of £18.8bn to the UK economy in 2019/20 According to the recently-released HSE annual work-related ill-health and injury statistics, Stress and Mental Health is the Number one Cause of […]
HSE: Latest Prosecution Results: October 2022
HSE: Latest Prosecution Results: October Edition Construction company and two workers sentenced after worker suffers electric shock A construction company and two workers have been sentenced after a worker suffered an electric shock whilst working on a farm. On 30 September 2019 an employee of Connop and Son Limited was working on Worton Grounds Farm, Deddington, […]
HSE: Latest Prosecution Results: September 2022
Companies and employees sentenced after 18-year-old worker’s death Two companies and two people have been sentenced after an 18-year-old construction worker was fatally injured while working on a house-build construction site in Boston, Lincolnshire. P & R Plant Hire (Lincolnshire) Limited, D. Brown (Building Contractors) Limited, Brent Woods and Darrell Tripp were all fined following the death […]
Two dead and two injured at concrete firm incident in Devon
Two people have died and two others have been injured in an industrial incident in Devon. Police and ambulance crews were called to West Country Concrete Products in Shebbear at about 15:25 BST on Tuesday 23 August where one man was pronounced dead at the scene. Another man was airlifted to Derriford Hospital, sustaining serious […]
HSE: Latest Prosecution Results: August 2022
Waste management company fined £190,000 after fatal fall A waste management company has been fined £190,000 after a contractor died when he fell seven metres while carrying out maintenance work. The experienced maintenance contractor was part of a team under the control and direction of Wiltshire-based Hills Waste Solutions Limited. He sustained fatal injuries in […]
HSE: Latest Prosecution Results: Mid-August 2022
Dyson fined £1.2m after worker injured by machine Technology firm Dyson has been fined £1.2m after an employee sustained head and chest injuries when he was struck by a 1.5 tonne milling machine. The worker at Dyson’s Wiltshire factory was hit while moving the machine, which fell on top of him. He only escaped being crushed […]
HSE Fatality Statistics 2022 infographic
A hundred and twenty-three workers were killed in work-related accidents in Great Britain in the last year, according to figures published this month (Wednesday July 6) by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). The annual data release covers the period from April 2021 to March 2022, during which time most pandemic restrictions were lifted and […]