A company in Berkshire has been fined £16,000 after putting an employee at risk of exposure to ionising radiation. A worker at Gemini Technology (Reading) Limited was put at risk of exposure to 500 milliSieverts (mSv) per hour while working on an irradiator at a calibration facility operated by the Ministry of Defence on 7 … read more
A company in Lincolnshire has been fined £200,000 after a driver suffered chemical burns to his feet assuming he was standing in a puddle of rainwater. The man had been offloading his tanker with a delivery at the Laporte Road site of Tronox Pigment UK Limited, in Stallingborough, Grimsby, on 9 August 2022. During the … read more
The investigation into deaths of two men at the Teesworks site in 2019 will now be led by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). On 19 September 2019, John Mackay and Tom Williams died following an explosion at the site. Following a thorough joint investigation by Cleveland Police and HSE, there is insufficient evidence to … read more
A West Midlands engineering company and its managing director have been fined for failing to protect their workers from welding fume. Associated Metalmasters Limited and managing director Darren Spittle were prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) following an inspection of the company’s former site at Woodside Industrial Estate, Pedmore Road, Dudley, in October … read more
An award-winning gas specialist at Britain’s safety regulator has described the “emotionally taxing” week he spent at the site of an explosion that claimed the life of a two-year-old boy. Steve Critchlow, a principal registered gas engineer at the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), was called to Mallowdale Avenue in Heysham, Lancashire, following the blast … read more