Lifting and handling in court | SHP - Safety and Health Practitioner

Lifting and handling in court | SHP - Safety and Health Practitioner

Lifting and handling - In court articles

Tesco admits safety failings at Leicester store

12 March 2012

Company admits its lifting procedure was “foolhardy”

27 February 2012

Engineer pinned to ground under bus

14 February 2012

Two companies fined for lorry unloading fatality

13 February 2012

Investigation highlights crane-maintenance failings

06 February 2012

Young worker killed by machine head-clamp

03 February 2012

Company and supervisor fined for crane fatality

23 January 2012

Crane fault caused load to fall on worker

11 January 2012

Company didn’t call ambulance for worker with broken neck

11 January 2012

Forklift fall left driver with serious back injuries

09 January 2012

Director sentenced over crane fatality

21 December 2011

Untrained apprentice trapped under 14-tonne bus

14 December 2011

Lifting diagram followed by workers was "impossible"

28 October 2011

Meat plant fined £100k for forklift fatality

24 August 2011

Planning omission exposed in unloading fatality

08 August 2011

Factory found guilty over unsafe loading method

18 July 2011

Worker hit by falling crates suffered permanent brain damage

07 July 2011

Bupa given big fine for care home fatality

28 June 2011

Gearbox maker failed to identify lifting hazards

01 June 2011

Driver’s jaw shattered during dangerous unloading process

12 May 2011

Worker’s leg shattered in crane collapse

05 April 2011

Lorry driver killed by falling load

01 April 2011

Sister companies fined £75,000 for factory crush death

30 March 2011

Warehouse workers’ lucky escape in crane-girder plunge

03 March 2011

Fatality after defective telehandler re-employed

01 February 2011

Construction boss fined for poorly-planned lifting operation

27 January 2011

Disabled pensioner died following care-home lifting fall

18 January 2011

Worker crushed by falling crane load

11 January 2011

Botched planning highlighted in manual-handling fatality

05 January 2011

Untrained worker crushed while unloading delivery

25 November 2010

Factory worker crushed to death by falling crane load

22 November 2010

Three firms fined after worker trapped under one-tonne wall

12 November 2010

Worker crushed after unsecured delivery fell off lorry

11 November 2010

Steel beam crashed through roof of office building

02 November 2010

Offshore firms fined £243k for crush injury

24 September 2010

Lorry driver left brain-damaged by falling load

27 August 2010

Quarry company fined GBP 96k for digger death

13 August 2010

Vineyard owner's death costs delivery firm GBP 200k

09 August 2010

Young worker hurt in lifting lapse

17 June 2010

Worker crushed to death trying to stop two-tonne load from falling

27 May 2010

Lack of safe lifting zone in overcrowded site led to injury

04 May 2010

Unsecured forklift load crushed worker

12 March 2010

GBP 280k fine after oil worker is left paralysed

05 January 2010

Crane crushes occupied vehicle at scrapyard

03 December 2009

Dock worker killed during poorly-planned lifting operation

17 November 2009

If it’s not safe for Mohammed to go to the mountain. . .

17 July 2009

Wembley death costs construction firm GBP 175,000

10 July 2009

Worker crippled in "flawed" loading operation

22 April 2009

Firm fined after skip door falls on truck driver

16 January 2009

Offshore firms to pay GBP 1.2 million over lifting op death

27 October 2008