Protecting Workers Health – Dust Campaign
Exposure to dust can risk your long-term health. Not today, but years down the line. Dust particles can be 100 times smaller than a grain…
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Woodworking company fined following collision death
On 29 April 2019, Thomas Brooke was walking across the yard at John Brooke (Timber Treatments) Limited in Nottingham. A wheel loader,…
Multi-national food company fined after worker loses fingers
Kerry Ingredients (UK) Limited received the fine following an incident at its factory in Hillington on 4 August 2021. The 39-year-old man…
Asbestos and You
Any job, any day of the week, can potentially release lethal asbestos fibres. It’s not like dust – you can’t see, smell, or feel the…
Recycling company director sentenced after worker loses leg
Daisy Ning Bai, 43, the director of BW Recycling Limited, was told she must complete 160 hours of unpaid work after pleading guilty to…
Engineering firm fined after employee sustains serious injuries at HS2 site
An engineering firm has been fined after an employee suffered a fractured skull, hip, jaw and pelvis, while working at a HS2 construction…
Company and director fined after worker fractures skull
A company and its director have been fined after an employee was struck by an object while manufacturing large steel cable drums for the…
Council fined as school technician loses finger
Adi Soday, a technician at The Forest School in Horsham, lost his right index finger when it was sliced off by a circular bench saw in…
Charitable trust fined following death of volunteer
Peter Konitzer was fatally crushed when a section of a wall collapsed onto him in an excavation at Pewsham locks on 24 August 2016. The…
Companies fined after 16-year-old worker exposed to asbestos
Two companies have been fined after a teenage worker was exposed to asbestos. The 16-year-old had been working for P Turnbull Joinery and…