The owner of a pallet manufacturing company ignored advice from the HSE to stop uncontrolled fires being lit at his warehouse, which was located between two gas storage sites.
A London hotel has had to pay more than £260,000 in fines and costs in what is believed to be the first jury trial of a case under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005.
A labourer suffered serious burns to his face, neck and arms after he was engulfed by a fireball in a trench at Macclesfield Town football club’s training ground.
Two companies have been ordered to pay hundreds of thousands of pounds in fines and costs over a major chemical fire in Crewe four years ago – but the total could have been even higher had the judge not rejected the HSE’s original costs claim as unreasonable.
A HSE inspector has branded a plumber as “incompetent” after his actions helped cause a gas explosion at a house, in which a pensioner suffered serious burns while rescuing his nine-year-old granddaughter.
A fire-risk assessor and the manager of two hotels that he failed to adequately assess have both been jailed for eight months for breaching the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005.
A petrochemical company failed to implement vital safety changes following an oil spill at its refinery in Scotland, which would have prevented a second spill a year later.
The company that owned a Newquay hotel where three people lost their lives in a fire four years ago has been ordered to pay £142,000 in fines and costs, but a consultant embroiled in advising the hotel on certain safety matters has been exonerated.
A health and safety manager who suffered serious burns when a can of solvent exploded has received a suspended prison sentence for putting other workers at risk.
National discount chain Poundstretcher Limited has been fined £51,500 and ordered to pay £3,450 costs at Leeds crown court for seven offences under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005.
The Court of Appeal has ruled against high-street retailer New Look after the company appealed that the £400,000 fine it received last year in relation to fire-safety breaches was excessive.
