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 29, 2023 | Construction, General, Training
A building firm has been fined for a catalogue of health and safety failings that included two builders being lifted into the air by a digger. A photograph caught the moment a pair of workers stood in the bucket of a digger to fit a stone into the top of a new home in...
by Tech Support | Dec 8, 2022 | General
A company has been fined after an employee became seriously ill when he contracted a blood infection while working at a lake contaminated with sewage. He was working for Adler and Allan Ltd, a supplier of environmental risk services, during a clean-up operation at a...
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 25, 2022 | General
A Welsh health board has been fined after three employees were diagnosed with Hand Arm Vibration Syndrome (HAVS). Powys Teaching Health Board required its employees to routinely operate handheld power tools such as lawn mowers, strimmers and hedge cutters without...
