A self-employed builder has today been given a suspended jail sentence after a three-year-old girl suffered severe head injuries when a length of timber fell on her whilst being hoisted up the outside of a scaffold. The Magistrates Court heard how on the 6 July 2018, the girl, and her mother, who was pushing her...
A recycling company has been sentenced after one of their employees, was fatally crushed by falling plastic bales. The Crown Court heard how, on 24 May 2017, waste plastic bales had been delivered to the company and were stacked as free-standing columns in a yard. During the morning, a fork lift truck (FLT) driver noticed...
A healthcare provider has today been fined £300,000 for its failings following the death of a 14-year-old patient. The Crown Court heard how the patient, who had complex mental health care needs, had been a patient in the high dependency unit (HDU), since 24 August 2012. She had been transferred to this facility after one...
A potato processing company has today been sentenced for safety breaches after a worker, was struck by a telehandler load. The Magistrates’ Court heard how, on 5 January 2018, a gentleman, aged 62, was walking across the middle yard to the maintenance workshop when he was struck by three potato boxes loaded on the tines...
A roofing company was sentenced today for safety breaches after a worker fell about three metres through a roof light and suffered a fractured pelvis and spinal injuries. The magistrates court heard how, on 17 March 2016, a self-employed roofer was on a roof laying wooden ‘lats’ and roofing felt, when he fell through a...
A food processing company, has today been sentenced after a worker was injured while unblocking a machine on the poultry slaughter line. The Magistrates’ Court heard how, on 6 September 2012, an employee of the company was attempting to clear a blockage on a conveying system when he was struck by a large metal stillage....
A manufacturing company today has been fined after a worker’s hand was caught in machinery. The Magistrates’ Court heard how, on the 5 July 2017, an employee of the manufacturing company was trying to clear a blockage from a metal cutting saw, when the blade cut through the knuckle of his left index finger damaging...
An engineering firm has been fined after a worker suffered a serious head injury whilst assembling a steel frame. The Magistrates’ Court heard how, on 12 March 2018, an employee from an engineering company was injured when a steel frame he was assembling came off two supporting battens and fell on him pinning his head...
A District Council has been fined after a member of public contracted Legionnaires’ Disease having been a regular user of its leisure centre facilities. The Magistrates’ Court heard how the member of public frequently used the showers at the leisure centre when, in November 2016, he fell seriously ill and was taken to hospital where...
