A Hull tyre company has been ordered to pay over £41,000 in costs and fines after its employee lost his arm when a crane tyre he was inflating exploded in an incident in December 2015.
By Belinda Liversedge on 17 September 2019
A no deal Brexit will result in exhausted lorry drivers, posing a danger to themselves and other road users, unless the government responds to concerns, Unite the union has warned.
By Belinda Liversedge on 04 September 2019
Volvo Group UK Limited has been fined £13,333.33 after an employee was seriously injured at its truck rental and repair depot in Glasgow after the company had failed to supply him with basic safety equipment.
By Belinda Liversedge on 27 August 2019
The way in which some people, often young, but not exclusively, are engaged in work is in jobs that are part of what is commonly referred to as the ‘gig economy’.
By Lawrence Waterman OBE on 22 July 2019
Govia Thameslink Railway Ltd (GTR) has today, 17 July, been fined £1 million after a passenger died when he opened a window marked ‘press and pull down to open’ and struck his head against a steel gantry.
By Belinda Liversedge on 17 July 2019
Balfour Beatty Civil Engineering Limited, part of the Balfour Beatty Group, has been fined £600,000 after a worker was fatally struck by a 14 tonne wheeled excavator.
By Belinda Liversedge on 26 February 2019
A demolition contractor has been fined £134,000 after two men were forced to improvise work at height equipment when their employer removed a scissor lift from the site.
By Belinda Liversedge on 18 January 2019
London Underground Limited has been fined £100,000 while Balfour Beatty Rail Limited has been ordered to pay £333,000 after a worker suffered life-changing injuries.
By British Safety Council on 06 December 2018
Bus company Midland Red (South) Ltd (a subsidiary of Stagecoach Group plc), has been fined £2.3m after a driver crashed into the front of a supermarket in Coventry City Centre on 3 October 2015, killing two people.
By Belinda Liversedge on 28 November 2018
A Cumbria farming partnership has been fined £100,000 after an employee suffered fatal head injuries when he was knocked over by a tractor.
By Belinda Liversedge on 31 October 2018
By Peter Harvey, the Fork Lift Truck Association on 26 September 2017
By Belinda Liversedge on 01 November 2018
By Martin Stear on 31 July 2017
