Articles On: UK Industry Sectors
The UK landscape of industries that operate as workplaces
Boss of Scrap Company Runs Over Employee with Forklift Truck
Posted: 3 March 2022
Posted in: Moving Vehicles, Waste Management, Workplace Accidents Resulting in Injury
Both a vehicle scrap company, and its sole director, Ghol Mohammad Navabi, have been fined after causing serious crushing injuries to an employee whilst operating a forklift truck. The unnamed worker of Cambridge-based Queensferry Car Breakers Ltd suffered multiple fractures in both their legs in the workplace accident. On 1st March 2021, the employee was asked to collect a car bonnet by Navabi, who was operating the forklift truck. He left the container they were both in to fetch the object down a ramp, but he was quicker than expected.…
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18-Year-Old Injured by Negligent Recycling Company Suffers Several Broken Bones
Posted: 23 February 2022
Posted in: Falling From a Height, Waste Management, Workplace Accidents Resulting in Injury
After a young employee was injured clearing a blockage, HSE has fined the recycling company responsible for the workplace accident. The employee fell through a waste chute, 4 meters above concrete. A fellow employee spotted the fall and attempted to catch him using the telescopic handler he was riding in. However, the machine operator only served to hit the falling employee with the waste bucket, which resulted in several broken bones. HSE’s investigation concluded that the waste recycling company – PG Skips Ltd – did not risk assess or provide…
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Multiple Broken Arm Bones for Manufacturing Employee Working with Machine
Posted: 17 February 2022
Posted in: Contact with Moving Machinery, Manufacturing, Shoulders, Arms, Wrists, Hands & Fingers, Wales, Workplace Accidents Resulting in Injury
A manufacturer of self-adhesive vinyl and plastic films, Kay Premium Marking Films Ltd, has been fined after a worker suffered a severely broken arm. His hand was caught by two driven rollers, which pulled him further into the machine, causing significant personal injury. The workplace accident happened in summer 2019, when the employee was trying to clean the rollers with the slitter machine, which had glue on it. Due to a lack of guards on the machine, it was accessible to workers whilst it was running, causing the machine to…
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Farmer Imprisoned After Cattle Tramples a Walker to Death
Posted: 9 February 2022
Posted in: Agriculture, Forestry & Fishing, Fatal Accidents at Work, Injuries from Animals & Animal Attacks, Workplace Accidents Resulting in Injury, Workplace Personal Injury
Most farm animals are fairly innocuous, but large animals like cows and horses can pose a serious risk to people. In the event of David Tinniswood, the lack of appropriate safety measures led to an irreversible, but avoidable, tragedy. It’s instances of such misfortune that show businesses don’t just have a duty of care to their workers, but to the wider public who interact with them. On the 30th of May 2020, Tinniswood, his wife, and their two dogs were walking through a public right of way through Ivescar Farm,…
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Construction Employee Killed Falling Through Fragile Asbestos Roofing.
Posted: 1 February 2022
Posted in: Construction & Building, Falling From a Height, Fatal Accidents at Work, Workplace Accidents Resulting in Injury, Workplace Personal Injury
On the 22nd of May 2017, Marius Andrus was performing work on a replacement roof project in Liverpool. The roofer had reached a part of the roof made with old Asbestos cement sheets. They collapsed, and he fell through the roof, six metres down, sustaining fatal injuries. The company responsible for the tragic workplace death is a Powys construction company called AJM Services Ltd. They have been fined £51,000 and ordered to pay costs of £5,000 after pleading guilty to section 4(1) of the Work at Height Regulations 2005. The…
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