Articles On: UK Industry Sectors
The UK landscape of industries that operate as workplaces
Scaffolding Company injures two employees after scaffold collapse.
Posted: 10 June 2022
Posted in: Construction & Building, Fractures, Struck by Moving Objects, Workplace Accidents Resulting in Injury
A company, operating in London and based in Kent, called RPS Scaffolding Ltd, has been fined after non-conforming scaffolding collapsed to cause injury to two workers in August 2020. The scaffold was erected without the necessary strength and stability calculations, leading to an entirely preventable workplace accident. The workers were on site to decorate a property in London. After accessing the top lift of the scaffold, the structure immediately collapsed. This left both workers with a fractured shoulder, and one with a fractured elbow and wrist. This could have also…
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Employee Found Fatally Injured by Side Loading Forklift Truck
Posted: 13 April 2022
Posted in: Contact with Moving Machinery, Fatal Accidents at Work, Manufacturing, Workplace Accidents Resulting in Injury, Workplace Personal Injury
A manufacturing company, Cutting Edge Trading Ltd, has been fined after their employee, Mitchell Poutney, was fatally injured when a forklift truck crushed him. An HSE investigation into the fatal injury caused by workplace machinery found that the forks which crushed Poutney were unsupported. They also observed that there was no safe working system in place for unloading pallets from the side-loader forklift truck. Meaning, other employees could potentially suffer from similar accidents at work. As Poutney had been working underneath when the loaded goods caused the forklift truck’s carriage…
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HSE Looks to Bring Down Occupational Lung Disease Rates by Tackling Wood Dust Exposure
Posted: 6 April 2022
Posted in: Manufacturing, Occupational Asthma, Work-related Illness, Disease & Ill-health, Work-related Lung Disease
The HSE has begun inspecting businesses across the UK that work with wood to reduce the rates of Occupational Lung Disease – caused by wood dust – one of the deadliest industrial diseases affecting UK workers. Woodworking companies, such as those operating sawmills, manufacturing composite wood board and carpenters are all likely to have an inspection in the near future, with a particular focus on those with wood dust exposure. Such exposure tends to lead to a high rate of occupational asthma – as well as aggravated existing asthma –…
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Faulty Brakes Seriously Injure Construction Employee Operating Truck
Posted: 30 March 2022
Posted in: Construction & Building, Internal Injuries & Organ Damage, Moving Vehicles
A company’s failure to maintain the working condition of a dumper truck has caused and employee to suffer serious personal injuries. Nelson Plant Hire, of Andover in Hampshire, neglected to keep the brakes of a key vehicle in working condition and have since been fined by HSE for the incident involving the faulty equipment. The workplace accident, which took place in May 2018, saw a large articulated dumper truck working on top of a steep slope, near a public road. The operator of the truck began reversing down the slope…
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Teaching Assistant Falls Through Ceiling and Breaks Back in School
Posted: 21 March 2022
Posted in: Education & Teaching, Falling From a Height, Workplace Accidents Resulting in Injury
A junior school in Todmorden has been sentenced after a teaching assistant fell through a fragile ceiling. The employee dropped four metres down through a loft space above the school hall, resulting in serious personal injury. The fall from height accident occurred after the TA, who entered the loft space to look for a spare desk, immediately stepped through a non-boarded area. After falling through the ceiling and down several meters, she suffered a broken back. She was hospitalised for three weeks. The school pleaded guilty to breaching section 6…
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