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Balfour Beatty sentenced and fined after worker falls from height

Construction company Balfour Beatty has been sentenced after a 62-year-old worker fell 10 metres to the ground and died during the assembly of a new university facility.   The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) investigated the fall and prosecuted Balfour Beatty, with the firm fined £285,000 on Monday 16th of September.     The incident…

National Grid fined £3.2million after pylon worker suffers serious burns

The National Grid has been fined more than £3 million after a father-of-two was left with life-changing injuries whilst working on a pylon in South Wales.   Justin Hollins was replacing step bolts on the pylon at Treforest Industrial Estate in Pontypridd, when he received an electric shock of 33 thousand volts. The 50-year-old sustained…

Company fined after worker suffers double amputation

A company has been fined £160,000 after an employee lost both legs whilst working at its site near Warrington.   On 20 June 2022, Andrew McAuley, from Runcorn, an employee of William Stobart & Son Limited was picking orders at the firm’s warehouse in Appleton Thorn.     The 64-year-old was working in close proximity…

Company fined £1million after worker falls from a height

A company has been fined £1 million after an employee fell over 10 metres and sustained serious injuries.   Christopher Hooper, 31, suffered fractures to his skull, back, pelvis, arm, wrist and ankle after falling 11 metres at DP World Southampton’s terminal on 20 September 2022.     The 31-year-old, from Winchester, had fallen through…

Companies fined after ‘fantastic father’ crushed to death at work

Two companies have been fined after a father-of-three was crushed to death by a machine at work.   The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) investigation found the incident was entirely avoidable and Russell Hartley, 48 would still be alive had this work been planned, managed and monitored to a sufficient standard.     Mr. Hartley,…

Engineering firm fined after worker suffers multiple injuries on construction site

An engineering firm has been fined after an employee suffered multiple injuries while working at an HS2 construction site.   The man, employed as a mechanical engineer by EMC Elite Engineering Services Ltd, had been repairing a conveyor at the site on Chalfont Lane, West Hyde when he fell 11 metres on 20 November 2022.…

Company fined after worker, 35, left paralysed after fall

A Cheshire-based electrical transmission company, Wood Transmission and Distribution Limited, has been fined £240,000 after a worker was left paralysed following a workplace accident.   The incident involved Gavin Pugh, a 35-year-old linesman from Bangor, North Wales, who fell more than 30 feet while demolishing and replacing electricity pylons in East Staffordshire on April 6,…

Council fined after worker loses finger at school

A local authority has been fined and sentenced after a school worker lost his finger while preparing wood for a design and technology lesson.   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 on 13 June 2022.  …

Company fined after delivery driver electrocuted in lorry

A company has been fined £30,000 after a delivery driver suffered a fatal accident at work.   Father-of-four Levi Alleyne (known as ‘Chunky’) lost his life whilst he delivered crushed concrete to a construction site on Swallowfield Road, Reading, on 16 November 2020.  The devastating incident occurred when the crane arm on Mr Alleyne’s delivery lorry…

Company fined £75k after man trampled to death by cow at auction

A company has been fined more than £75,000 after a man was killed by a cow that had escaped from an auction in Wales.   Father-of-two Huw Evans was knocked down and trampled by a cow that was being sold at a livestock market run by J.J. Morris Limited on 19 November 2022.    …