Articles On: Workplace Accidents Resulting in Injury
Accidents at work that result in injury to employees.
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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Significant casualties in American factory after workers given 20 minute Tornado warning – is this corporate manslaughter?
Posted: 15 December 2021
Posted in: Factory Working Environments, Fatal Accidents at Work, Manufacturing, Workplace Accidents Resulting in Injury, Workplace Personal Injury
A series of deadly tornados, including one category EF5, hit multiple US states last Friday evening (10th December 2021). EF5’s can reach speeds higher than 200mph. The “Quad-State Tornado” wreaked havoc across 200 miles of land, destroying homes, businesses, and claiming lives. In Mayfield, Kentucky, the strongest of these tornados hit Mayfield Consumer Products (MCP), a candle factory running around the clock to meet Christmas demand. The factory is the 3rd largest employer in the area, with 245 people staff and last year’s earning standing at $28.97million. 110 workers were…
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Are unionised workplaces better for employee health and safety?
Posted: 9 September 2020
Posted in: Workplace Accidents Resulting in Injury, Workplace Personal Injury
One published, peer-reviewed study by Cornell University’s ILR School in America has come to this conclusion. The research by Jooyoung Yang and Aaron Sojourner was conducted by examining tens of thousands of union election results and correlating them with safety inspections resulting from employee complaints. The study concluded that unionised companies were 30% more likely to have inspections for health and safety violations. Why might companies with a union be better for employee wellbeing? The theory posited by Sojourner suggests that workers belonging to a trade union are more familiar…
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