At a glance – video round-up of the 10 biggest health and safety prosecutions of 2021.
August 4, 2022
A building owner has been sentenced to 12 months in prison after an employee was left paralysed when a hoist platform he was working from plummeted from the third floor to ground level. Read More
August 3, 2022
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is investigating an incident at a theme park in Cornwall after three people suffered injuries on a ride and attended hospital. Read More
August 2, 2022
A retail company and an electrical contracting company have been fined after an electrician suffered serious burns to 15 per cent of his body when he was caught in an explosion at a warehouse in Liverpool. Read More
August 1, 2022
The uncle of a four-year-old boy killed on a farm has urged everyone in agriculture to do more to keep children safe. Read More
July 28, 2022
A fire service has been prosecuted after two of its firefighters received serious head injuries – with one paralysed from the chest down – after a training exercise. Read More
July 27, 2022
A man has been charged with fraud after dozens of cladding safety forms were signed off by an unauthorised person, Merseyside Police has said. Read More
July 25, 2022
Yorkshire Water has been fined £1,600,750 for polluting a Bradford watercourse in a prosecution brought by the Environment Agency. Read More
July 22, 2022
A Blackburn based building contractor has been sentenced after unsafe work methods constituted a public risk and resulted in asbestos being disturbed. Read More
July 21, 2022
A metal fabrication company has been fined £22,000 after a worker’s overalls were drawn into a lathe, trapping him and resulting in serious injury. Read More
July 20, 2022
The owner of the Main Top Hotel on Mersey Road in West Bank, Widnes, has been sentenced after pleading guilty to nine breaches of the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005. Read More