Charitable trust fined following death of volunteer
A charitable trust has been fined after a volunteer lost his life during restoration work on the Wilts and Berks Canal.
Peter Konitzer was fatally crushed when a section of a wall collapsed onto him in an excavation at Pewsham locks on 24 August 2016.
The 62-year-old had been inside the excavation...Read More »
Companies fined after 16-year-old worker exposed to asbestos
Two companies have been fined after a teenage worker was exposed to asbestos.
The 16-year-old had been working for P Turnbull Joinery and Building Services Ltd on an outbuilding of a domestic property after the firm had been hired by Alt Berg Holding Limited to refurbish the property in Richmond, North...Read More »
Company fined after delivery driver electrocuted
A company in Berkshire has been fined £30,000 after a father-of-four was electrocuted.
Levi Alleyne (known as ‘Chunky’) lost his life while delivering crushed concrete at a construction site on Swallowfield Road, Reading, on 16 November 2020.
Chunky was killed after the crane arm of his lorry came into close contact with...Read More »
Livestock auctioneers fined after man, 75, killed by cow
A company has been fined after a 75-year-old man was killed by a cow that had escaped from a livestock market in Wales.
Father-of-two Huw Evans was knocked down and trampled by a cow that was being auctioned at a livestock market run by J.J. Morris Limited on 19 November 2022.
The...Read More »
Man spared jail for carrying out unsafe work on his own home
A man has been given a suspended sentence after he carried out unsafe work on an extension to his own home in Manchester.
Abdul Rehman engaged operatives to help him build an extension to the property on Kings Crescent in Old Trafford – which was in addition to replacing the roof...Read More »