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Combined fines of £130,000 for excavator fatality
A driver was killed instantly when the mini excavator he was driving was crushed after a 32-tonne tipper lorry suddenly overturned on uneven ground while delivering 20 tonnes of aggregate to a construction site. Leicester Crown Court heard on 11 May that Richard Kenny, 48, had been employed by J&H Construction, themselves subcontracted by principal...
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Firm only prosecuted 'so HSE could recover costs', director claims
In a prosecution taken under the Electricity at Work Regulations, a factory worker suffered serious burns and open wounds after receiving an electric shock while working on an industrial machine. Derek Offord, 45, was working as a machine operator at coating and treatment firm Tecvac Ltd’s factory at...
Ministers quizzed in run-up to Workers’ Memorial Day
As part of this year’s Worker’s Memorial Day – which falls on Saturday, 28 April – safety campaigners have sent ministers and MPs a quiz on health and safety at work so they can test their knowledge. Workers’ Memorial Day – an annual event, which is marked all around the world – remembers...
Worker hung on for life during scaffold collapse
The director of a dissolved scaffolding company has been prosecuted after two workers were injured during a scaffold collapse in Nottingham. The two men, who wish to remain anonymous, were dismantling a tower scaffold outside student accommodation on Radford Boulevard, when it collapsed on 24 January 2011....
