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Football clubs ban vuvuzelas over safety concerns

Tottenham Hotspur, Liverpool and Arsenal are the highest-profile clubs to announce that the plastic horns will not be allowed inside their stadia. The instrument came to promi...

worker has his lower leg amputated

On 29 August 2008, Alan Seviour, who worked as a delivery driver for John Wainwright & Co Ltd, was carrying out some relief work on a road in Monkton, Heathfield. There are se...

85-metre scaffold collapse

Several cars were damaged after an 85-metre scaffold collapsed during high winds in a residential street in Middlesbrough. Teesside Magistrates’ Court heard that William Bedf...

A plastics manufacturer fined £140,000

A plastics manufacturer has been fined £140,000 in relation to the death of a cleaner at its depot in Rochdale. Manchester Crown Court heard that the incident took place at T...

eight-metre fall from a barn roof

An incident in which a worker was critically injured in an eight-metre fall from a barn roof resulted in fines for three men involved in the project. Trafford Magistrates’ Co...

Farm worker suffered serious injuries while cutting a tree

A farm worker suffered serious injuries while cutting a tree when the chainsaw he was operating dropped on to his elbow. Lowestoft Magistrates’ Court heard how Keith Dennis, ...

Eudora man seriously injured in fall

The accident happened at 2:30 p.m. The call was reported from 1524 Savage St., where the victim reportedly lives. A neighbor identified the fall victim as Richard Waring. Acco...

Firm’s work-at-height procedures were ‘simply not good enough’

A property development company has been fined £6600 after a member of the public notified the HSE that the firm was putting workers at risk during a roof demolition at a site ...

Unsupported pit put residents lives at risk

Mahmood Khokhar, 29, had dug a 1.8-metre-deep pit as part of extension work at a house owned by his sister in Denmark Street, Chadderton. Oldham Council’s building control tea...

Victim strayed on to unsecured site during night out

A construction company and two of its directors must pay more than £90,000 in penalties following the death of a member of the public at a building site in West Sussex. Lewes...