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Combined fines of £130,000 for excavator fatality

16 May 2012

Farming firm fined for forklift fall

04 May 2012

Multiple injuries sustained in runaway telehandler drama

27 April 2012

HGV ran over worker at congested site

25 April 2012

Dixons in the dock after metal pierced worker’s eye

18 April 2012

Bus collided with “invisible” cherry-picker

17 April 2012

Cargo firm fined £110,000 following forklift-collision trial

10 April 2012

Six-metre steel tube punctured lorry driver through his chest

05 April 2012

Shipbuilding firm fined for forklift fatality

27 March 2012

Surveyor killed by reversing lorry on M25 expansion project

22 March 2012

Two firms fined for worker’s excavator-crush injuries

09 March 2012

Trailer manufacturer fined £100,000 for driver’s death

29 February 2012

Engineer pinned to ground under bus

14 February 2012

Excavator crash leaves inadequately trained worker in coma

25 January 2012

Forklift fall left driver with serious back injuries

09 January 2012

Untrained apprentice trapped under 14-tonne bus

14 December 2011

Worker fell to his death when cherry-picker collapsed

07 December 2011

Three firms fined for Arsenal stadium injury

30 November 2011

Fine for building firm won’t be paid

28 November 2011

Worker injured in fall from unsuitable platform on lift truck

25 November 2011

Employee hospitalised for six months after forklift collision

08 November 2011

Forklift trucks were allowed to operate in constricted loading bay

20 October 2011

“Simple and inexpensive” measures would have prevented lift-truck incident

13 October 2011

Forklift service firm didn’t consider danger of working on truck roof

10 October 2011

“It won’t happen again”, promises Network Rail after £80k fine

06 October 2011

Recycling firm failed to segregate vehicles and pedestrians

31 August 2011

Meat plant fined £100k for forklift fatality

24 August 2011

Worker crushed between two skips while urinating

17 August 2011

Planning omission exposed in unloading fatality

08 August 2011

Global brewing company fined twice in one day

05 August 2011

Delivery firm denounced for “sustained and systemic” failure

04 August 2011

Judge slams skip-hire firm for “highly foreseeable” fatality

27 July 2011

Factory found guilty over unsafe loading method

18 July 2011

Worker fell 20ft from moving forklift

17 June 2011

Driver’s jaw shattered during dangerous unloading process

12 May 2011

Supermarket knew ‘dead man’s pedal’ was faulty

09 May 2011

Refuse firm fined £250,000 over reversing fatality

26 April 2011

Huge fine for vehicle manufacturer for forklift fatality

21 March 2011

Biffa Waste Services fined £60k in relation to landfill death

04 February 2011

Telehandler toppled because of precarious parking

26 November 2010

Worker’s death was a result of “dangerous practices”

03 November 2010

Roadworks company fined £100k for motorway death

22 October 2010

Litter-picker killed in roadside collision

06 October 2010

Chicken firm rapped for hand-skinning incident

30 September 2010

Coordination and communication absent in toxic-gas fatality

27 September 2010

Clothing warehouse ignored council’s warnings about site traffic

27 September 2010

Demolition worker died after being hit by digger bucket

16 September 2010

Vineyard owner's death costs delivery firm GBP 200k

09 August 2010

Quarry fined £30k for vehicle plunge

29 July 2010

Tyre firm in a spin after forklift accident

20 July 2010