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Worker’s arm ripped off inside unguarded machine

23 May 2012

Company castigated over conveyor crush

02 May 2012

Widow slams company’s lack of remorse for strimmer fatality

14 March 2012

Nestlé fined £180,000 for machine-crush fatality

12 March 2012

Safety procedures “existed on paper but ignored in practice”

14 February 2012

Company failed to act on findings of risk assessment

09 February 2012

Manufacturer failed to test machine's safety interlocks

08 February 2012

Struggling firm gets lighter penalty for fourth machine-guarding incident

27 January 2012

Crane fault caused load to fall on worker

11 January 2012

Director sentenced over crane fatality

21 December 2011

Modified machine created dangerous gap

20 December 2011

Contractor severs finger in unguarded machine at council’s HQ

12 December 2011

Employee wasn’t trained in machine isolation

22 November 2011

Injured manager didn’t question missing machine guard

14 November 2011

Pet-food factory failed to implement “straightforward” safety measures

03 November 2011

Foreman loses two fingers inside unguarded machine

01 November 2011

Food firm to pay £230,000 over two guard-overriding incidents

28 October 2011

Machine was operated with no guard for over ten years

26 October 2011

Farm worker injured after power-isolation error

13 October 2011

Young worker lost arm in waste-screening machine

12 October 2011

£144,000 to pay after “tragic death” of worker in jammed press

07 October 2011

Basic safety check would have avoided life-changing injuries

07 October 2011

Silo work should have been supervised by a competent person

06 October 2011

Foundry worker fell into unguarded pit of molten metal

23 September 2011

Tree surgeon left active machine unattended

14 September 2011

Factory fined £200k for night-shift worker death

13 September 2011

Timber firm failed to eradicate unsafe work practice

19 August 2011

Meat producer failed to act on safety advice

16 August 2011

Cladding company tolerated “dangerous system” for unblocking machine

12 August 2011

Minerals firm failed to eliminate unsafe work practices

26 July 2011

Company ignored workers’ concerns over glove policy

06 July 2011

“Dangerous assumptions” led to fatal machine crush

13 June 2011

Outdated work method led to serious hand injury at Cardiff steel works

19 May 2011

Volunteer severed arm in faulty machine

08 April 2011

Recycling firm’s parent company supplied unsafe machine

11 March 2011

Engineer maimed during second day at new job

25 February 2011

Worker loses fingertip in unguarded drill

28 January 2011

Bakery allowed employees to continue using faulty machine

28 January 2011

Employee injured during first day at work

20 January 2011

Egg company shells out £3k for machine-guarding failings

17 January 2011

Inadequately-trained worker almost severed arm in machine

12 January 2011

Machine death was “easily avoidable”, says inspector

05 January 2011

Unsafe work practice went on for a decade

03 December 2010

Worker restarted machine unaware that colleague was inside

18 November 2010

Farm director “could have done more” to prevent accident

27 October 2010

Worker hit head on rotating blade inside unguarded machine (VIDEO)

14 October 2010

Two people thrown from faulty fairground ride at British Grand Prix

01 October 2010

Chicken firm rapped for hand-skinning incident

30 September 2010

Director ignored machine-guarding warnings prior to blender fatality

21 September 2010

Factory bosses knew machine safeguards weren’t operational

01 September 2010