In Court

SHP's In Court pages contain information on the latest UK health and safety prosecutions brought by the HSE and local authorities.

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The teenage stepson of a farm manager died after falling through the roof of a farm building in Ballindalloch, Scotland.

The owners of a manufacturing company appeared in front of magistrates to answer charges relating to an incident in which an employee had his fingers crushed in a hydraulic press.

A group of IOSH representatives, including policy and technical director Richard Jones, international officer Michael Nicholson, and IOSH vice-president and Construction Group chair, John Lacey,...

A delivery driver suffered brain damage when a panel saw fell and struck him in the head as he was unloading it from a lorry.

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Two construction companies have been fined a total of £125,000 after a worker fell 21 metres during building work at a hospital in Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

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A factory worker was badly injured when his hand was drawn between two rotating metal rollers on an unguarded machine.

A worker at an onion-packaging factory suffered a broken shoulder after falling more than three metres from a ladder.

A building firm failed to warn its employees that asbestos was present during renovations at a school in Warwickshire.

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A crane hire firm failed to take a tower crane out of service despite a fault being identified moments before it was used to lift a five-tonne load during development work at a college in Hertfordshire.

A Scottish local council has been fined £20,000 after a man drowned when he drove off the unprotected edge of a coastal car park and fell in to the sea.

 
 

 

 
 

 

 

 
 
 
 

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