Tweet A construction employee suffered a ruptured bladder after a seven tonne excavator run him over at a construction site in Mansfield. Michael Tomlinson had been hired by Parkstone Construction Limited and he was working as a sub contractor for the company during the building of a supermarket in Jubilee Way South. Mr Tomlinson was [...]
Tweet The TUC holds the belief that an increasing number of companies that employ people have lost the fear that they can be caught for safety and health failings. This is mainly as a result of scaling-back of regulatory inspections by the Government. According to the findings of TUC’s tenth biennial survey of unification safety [...]
Tweet In Somerset a migrant worker suffered severe injuries when a load of cardboard bales collapsed before landing on him inside a shed that was used to sort waste. Each bale was weighing 250 kilograms. Last year on September 8, the 40 year old Aleksandras Fomenkouas was sorting waste when the fatal incident occurred at [...]
Tweet Just five days before he retired, a school caretaker has suffered severe injuries when he fell through roof four meters in Bradford. The 62 year old David O’Hanlon had worked for eight years at Beckfoot School in Bingley but decided to retire early after the closure of the site and the replacement by a [...]
Tweet A manufacturer that produces farm machinery has been fined after pleading guilty for breaching Regulation 20 of the Provision of the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations. K Two Sales Limited was prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive after one of their workers suffered with sever leg injuries after his leg [...]
Tweet A factory worker’s forearm was broken in two places when it became entangled in a mesh conveyor belt at the premises of one of Europe’s largest ice-cream manufacturers. Sam Goodall, 20, Production operative of Northallerton, had been working on an ice cream production line at R&R Ice Cream in Leeming Bar on 8 August [...]
Tweet In May 2010 a normal day ended in tragedy when a grandfather was tragically killed at Dry Dock located at the Bridgewater Canal. Richard Ferris, a canal boat owner, slipped over on a plank which caused critical injuries to his head that proved to be fatal. When Mr Ferris fell he landed on a [...]