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Farm fined after dad electrocuted

A farm has been fined £60,000 following the death of a father-of-three who was electrocuted by an overhead power line. Patrick ‘Paddy’ Rice was fatally electrocuted on 13 May 2021 while operating a tipper lorry at VB Farms LLP’s Littlecombe Farm in Crediton, Devon. Paddy’s mother says her family have been “traumatised and deeply shocked” … read more

Working Minds: Stress campaign to help HGV drivers

Road Haulage Association announced as new Working Minds partner Help is available via the free, confidential, text “BeAMate” service More needs to be done to protect Britain’s truckers from work-related stress. That’s the view of the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), whose Working Minds campaign will now target HGV drivers – and their bosses – … read more

Company fined after worker left paralysed

A manufacturing company has been fined after a worker became entangled in a machine and has been left paralysed from the chest down. The man, from Worcester, had been working for Mountfield CNC Ltd at the firm’s site at Berry Hill Industrial Estate in Droitwich when the incident took place on 4 January 2022. He … read more