April 26, 2024
A housing company based in Kent has been fined £528,000 after an employee repairing a fence post inadvertently struck an underground cable, suffering burns to his face. Read More
January 18, 2024
A Kent scaffolding company has been fined and its director given a suspended prison sentence after a scaffolder suffered an 11,000-volt electric shock. Read More
October 13, 2023
Three companies have been fined a total of £600,000 after an engineer was fatally electrocuted while repairing an appliance in a hospital kitchen. Read More
August 25, 2023
A farm has been fined £60,000 following the death of a man who was electrocuted by an overhead power line. Read More
November 18, 2022
A construction company and two workers have been sentenced after a worker suffered an electric shock whilst working on a farm. Read More
October 28, 2021
Electrical equipment provider, Martindale, launches new, simplified safeguarding process, ALIVE, to help prevent injuries and save lives. Read More
August 4, 2021
WH Malcom Limited, operators of Daventry International Rail Freight Terminal near Rugby, has been fined £6.5m after being found guilty of negligence over the death of an 11-year-old boy in 2017. Read More
March 15, 2019
A 13-year-old boy suffered life-changing injuries after receiving an electric shock from 25,000-volt overhead line equipment. Read More
June 8, 2018
A man has been sentenced to 18 weeks in prison after a worker received serious injuries from an electric shock. Read More
May 29, 2018
The employee of a construction firm was luckily left unhurt after the tipper vehicle he was driving came into contact with overhead power lines (OPLs) during the construction of a waste transfer station. Read More