A construction company has been fined £146k after a joiner was crushed and killed by a 20-tonne excavator. Philip McDonald had been hired by Birch Brothers (Kidderminster) Ltd to assist with the construction of a concrete overflow weir structure at Monks Pond, near Ashbourne in Derbyshire. The 48-year-old was with colleagues on a road above … read more
A director has been given a suspended prison sentence and two firms have been fined after a worker was killed when glass panes fell on top of him while unloading a shipping container from a lorry. Tawanda Chamwandayita, from Edgbaston, Birmingham suffered fatal crush injuries when units of glass fell on top of him while … read more
An Inverness company has been fined after a surveyor died from injuries caused by an electrical explosion. Christopher Wayne Earley, a director at CWE Asbestos Consultants Ltd, was carrying out an asbestos survey on 10 December 2020. Mr Earley was injured by an electrical explosion while inspecting an electric panel. He suffered burns to a … read more
A Greater Manchester company has been fined £180k after a female employee lost her hand after it was dragged into a machine. The Vita Cellular Foams (UK) Ltd employee was operating a blown line machine at the firm’s Oldham Road premises in Middleton on 30 June 2020, when one of her colleagues isolated it from … read more
Civil engineering firm Kier has been fined more than £4m after its staff 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 Kier workers brought down hit a lorry. The second time, a cable landed on the … read more