An unregistered plumber has been sentenced after carrying out gas work at addresses in North London over a two year period. Whirlpool UK Appliances Limited has also been fined after allowing the sub-contractor to carry out work on the gas appliances on its behalf. Westminster Magistrates’ Court heard how Errol Dillon carried out gas work […]
A special effects company whose confetti cannon hit a woman in the face – leaving her permanently blinded in one eye – has been fined £16,000. James McMahon and Tory Harper, who ran the Knowsley-based UK Effects.co.uk Ltd were described by a judge as “naive and cavalier” over the accident at Liverpool super-club Cream in […]
Asbestos Canada is finally banning asbestos, but its decision only throws the situation on the other side of the border into sharper relief. Brook Spencer of the Mesothelioma Cancer Alliance looks at the current state of international regulation. In December 2016, the Canadian government finally took its first steps toward banning asbestos, announcing that […]
Moy Park Ltd has been fined after a worker was injured at the company’s site in Anwick near Sleaford, Lincolnshire Lincoln Crown Court heard on the an engineer was checking the blades on the cutting line when the machine restarted and he wasn’t able to move his hand away from the blade he was inspecting […]
A Manchester building contractor and a company owner have appeared in court after a worker was seriously injured on a refurbishment site. The 53-year-old father of two from Salford was employed as a labourer at the site of a refurbishment project at Manchester One, Portland Street Manchester when the incident occurred on 29 August 2014. […]
An aircraft engineering company has been fined after two men fell about 15 feet while they were carrying out checks at the tail of an aeroplane. Chelmsford Magistrates’ Court heard that an employee of Inflite Engineering Services and an agency worker suffered broken bones after the fall at Stansted Airport on 10 June 2015. They […]
Construction company Kier Construction Limited has been fined £400,000 after a worker fell from height. Westminster Magistrates’ Court heard how Jair Morales was installing plywood boards covering holes on the third floor of a building at a construction site in Uxbridge, Middlesex when he fell a distance of 3.95m to the floor below. The court heard […]
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