by Tech Support | Mar 31, 2023 | Accidents, General
An East Yorkshire garden landscaping company has been fined £600,000 after an employee died while loading a lorry. Brian White, 59, was working for Kelkay Limited when he was operating a forklift truck at the company’s site on Heck and Pollington Lane, Pollington,...
by Tech Support | Feb 21, 2023 | Accidents, Construction, General
A farmer has been fined £8k after a teenage worker suffered serious head injuries when a six-tonne dumper he was driving overturned. The 19-year-old and his friend, who was just 16, had been paid to move material as part of improvement works at Upper Kingswell Farm in...
by Tech Support | Jan 18, 2023 | Accidents, Construction
Civil engineering firm Kier has been fined more than £4m after its workers twice struck overhead powerlines while working on the M6 motorway causing cables to land in the path of passing vehicles. In one incident, an overhead cable the workers brought down hit a...
by Tech Support | Dec 22, 2022 | Accidents, Construction
A building company has been fined £66,667 after a worker was injured when a floor that was under construction collapsed. The Lusson Ltd worker was one of three people who were on the incomplete first floor of a building that was being constructed in Croham Valley...
by Tech Support | Dec 4, 2022 | Accidents, General
The wife of a man left severely disabled by a workplace accident says he is a “stranger in her husband’s body”. Sue McFarlane’s partner John suffered life-changing brain injuries falling 2.5 metres from a delivery vehicle to a concrete floor at the vehicle parts...
by Tech Support | Nov 23, 2022 | Accidents, General
The estimated number of workers in Great Britain suffering a work-related illness is 1.8 million with stress, depression, and anxiety making up around half of cases, new figures show. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has today (Wednesday November 23) published...
