Ceramics manufacturer Emma Bridgewater has been handed a £266,666 fine after a young girl was injured by falling broken glass during a Christmas lights switch-on event at its premises in Hanley.
By Belinda Liversedge on 08 July 2026
Industrial Chemicals Limited (ICL) has been ordered to pay £3.8 million in fines following a damning HSE investigation that uncovered deep-seated management failures at two of its Essex sites.
By Belinda Liversedge on 27 April 2026
Esso has been fined £1 million after a major gas leak at Fawley Oil Refinery in Hampshire, following an investigation and subsequent prosecution by the Health & Safety Executive.
By Belinda Liversedge on 18 June 2026
Ceramics manufacturer Emma Bridgewater has been handed a £266,666 fine after a young girl was injured by falling broken glass during a Christmas lights switch-on event at its premises in Hanley.
By Belinda Liversedge on 08 July 2026
Esso has been fined £1 million after a major gas leak at Fawley Oil Refinery in Hampshire, following an investigation and subsequent prosecution by the Health & Safety Executive.
By Belinda Liversedge on 18 June 2026
Two construction companies have been fined nearly £80,000 after a scaffolder broke his arm, leg and suffered head lacerations in a fall through a roof skylight.
By Belinda Liversedge on 11 June 2026
A Cumbria-based waste and recycling firm has been sentenced after a 44-year-old worker was struck and killed by a reversing telehandler — an incident HSE says was entirely preventable through basic workplace segregation.
By Belinda Liversedge on 28 May 2026
A Glasgow biomass company has been fined £129,000 after a worker had three fingers partially severed after contact with moving machinery.
By Belinda Liversedge on 21 May 2026
An employer has been fined after a tree surgeon suffered a powerful electric shock when the mobile lighting tower he was pushing made contact with an overhead powerline.
By Belinda Liversedge on 07 May 2026
Industrial Chemicals Limited (ICL) has been ordered to pay £3.8 million in fines following a damning HSE investigation that uncovered deep-seated management failures at two of its Essex sites.
By Belinda Liversedge on 27 April 2026
A Redditch vehicle maintenance company has been fined after chilling CCTV footage captured the moment an untrained forklift driver caused an incident that left a father-of-two with life-changing injuries.
By Belinda Liversedge on 17 April 2026
A family-run forge in Halesowen, West Midlands, has been fined £750,000 after an employee sustained fatal injuries when he became entangled in a 20-metre long lathe.
By Belinda Liversedge on 19 February 2026
Two companies have been fined after two fathers were crushed by a racking system they were helping to test out at a facility in Bingley, Yorkshire.
By Belinda Liversedge on 12 February 2026
