Two brothers have been sentenced for failing to protect members of the public from their cattle. An investigation by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) found Andrew and David Turnbull failed to offer and display signs of an alternative route to a public right of way in their field in the Coalsgarth Valley, North Yorkshire. […] read more
A renovation company in South Wales has been sentenced after defying enforcement notices from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). Inspectors say Greenlife Property Developments Ltd failed to heed their warnings about the dangers posed to workers by a two-and-a-half metre deep excavation of the entire back garden of a house in Pit Place, Cwmbach, […] read more
Albie Speakman, 3, died in July 2022 after being struck by a telehandler driven by his father. Neil Speakman was sentenced on Friday for failing to ensure Albie’s health and safety. Mr Speakman should have followed HSE guidance, says lead inspector. A farmer has been jailed after he failed to ensure the health and safety […] read more
An indoor skiing company in Tamworth has been fined £100,000 following the death of a schoolboy. Twelve-year-old Louis Watkiss had been at a tobogganing birthday party at the Snowdome in Tamworth on 24 September 2021. He was descending the main ski slope on a toboggan when it slid into the back of a member of […] read more
CCTV has captured the moment a welder was crushed while working at a shipyard in Sunderland. David Vinsome sustained multiple rib fractures as well as internal injuries, including an abdominal wall burst, following the incident at Pallion Shipyard on 18 October 2022. The 37-year-old from North Shields was crushed between an excavation bucket and a […] read more