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Shropshire Council Pothole Consultant WIll Cost £1,000 Per Day

Shropshire Council has decided to use around £130,000 of taxpayers’ cash to pay £1,000 a day for a ‘pothole consultant’. The consultant will provide their advice on how to make crucial improvements based on their experience of running very successful highways operations elsewhere. A pothole is considered unsafe when it has a depth of more…

Worker Loses Two Fingers Due To Moulding Machine

It has been reported that company William Lee Ltd has been prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) following investigations into an accident that took place on 28th February 2018 after worker loses two fingers.   The Dronfield based engineering firm, who manufactures automotive components, was found to have had inadequate risk assessment in…

Workman Dies On-Site At University Of Birmingham

Following on from my article a few days ago detailing the death of an employee working in a greenhouse environment, it is sad to read that two employees were injured in a workplace accident on the grounds of the University of Birmingham last week (one fatally).   It is reported that the equipment being used…

Chatham Greenhouse Workplace Accident

Many people treat the coming of a new year as a new start and, for businesses, that could mean an overhaul of their procedures or a review of workplace safety. The importance of this is highlighted in an article in the Blackburn News about a Chatham Greenhouse workplace accident, which highlighted the catastrophic dangers employees…

Death At Work – Industrial Accident Inquest Ongoing

The inquest into the death of a Stourbridge man due to an industrial accident on the 2nd of September is still ongoing, the local newspaper writes. Twenty-three-year-old Mitchell Pountney died at his workplace, Cutting Edge Skirting in Rowley Regis, though there were no direct witnesses on the scene and no CCTV footage exists. Midlands Air…

Factory Worker – Death By Industrial Accident

The article in the Burnley Express today about the death by industrial accident of a young man whilst working in a food packaging and decorations company highlights the dangers of working with industrial machinery.   It is distressing to hear such accidents still happen and that, notwithstanding stringent laws ensuring employee safety, machinery can and…

Cyber Monday – Amazon Warehouse Workers Set To Strike

Amazon Warehouse distribution centres are under fire with a potential risk of a protest by the Members of the GMB union on Monday afternoon (2nd December 2019). Due to the appalling conditions and treatment of their workers, in the run-up to Black Friday and Cyber Monday. The number of workers injured due to poor health…

Couple Marry in Hospital Before Man Dies From Work Accident

A tragic incident resulted in childhood sweethearts marrying at hospital bedside, four days before he died, after a work accident left him brain-damaged. The worker got his arm caught in a conveyor belt while he was working on a newly-installed tyre shredding machine. This resulted in pressure being put on his neck crushing the main…

Child Scarred for Life Before a Family Holiday

A seven-year-old school girl was left with severe burns across her body 40 minutes into a four-hour flight of their first family holiday, when cabin crewmember spilled a cup of tea over her.   The flight attendant was passing the child’s mother a cup of tea. However, the lid wasn’t on properly and spilled on…

Company Fined £130,000 After Industrial Accident

Boal UK Ltd, in Shepshed, a company that produces aluminium products, has been fined more than £130,000 and ordered to pay costs of £6,346, after one of its workers was involved in an industrial accident.   The worker and four of his colleagues were involved with carrying out maintenance on a machine by replacing a…