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
Two construction companies have been fined a combined total of £120,000 after a groundworker suffered horrific injuries when heavy drainage pipes fell on top of him. Anthony Pennell was rushed to Royal Stoke University Hospital having sustained several fractures to both sides of his pelvis, as well as a fractured vertebrae and bleed on the … read more
Two offshore commercial divers and the director of a diving company have been sanctioned for exaggerating credentials. Investigators from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) have slammed the trio for false claims of diving experience that could have jeopardised their own and other divers’ lives in an offshore incident. Following a HSE investigation, two divers … read more
Michael Atkin’s partner says “enormous hole has been left”. Mark Wheatley’s parents called to the scene in Devon tragedy, partner pays tribute to “soulmate”. National company in court on same day for two fatalities in England. A waste management firm has been fined a total of £3 million following the deaths of two workers in … read more