Wallasey care home fined £40k over pneumonia risk.

August 2013

PLUS SAFETY Comment: Anywhere where ordinary water can reside between 20 and 45 degrees Celsius can provide the conditions for the…

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Two incidents at a sawmill have highlighted the importance of having safe maintenance procedures in place.  In the first incident a worker fell through a gap in the…

A worker in a factory, manufacturing lids for food containers, had four fingers severed in a lid-punching machine that had been modified by her employers.

Chadwicks of Bury Ltd, which…

An Edinburgh steel fabricating firm has been fined after an employee’s arm and hand were severely injured while lifting steel plates.

On 21 August 2009, Ian Sutherland was working with…

An employee of a major paper producer in North Wales has been left paralysed from the chest down after being crushed by a two tonne reel of paper.

Christopher John…

A Birmingham-based university has been fined, along with a security systems firm, after two workers were exposed to dangerous asbestos fibres while fitting CCTV cameras.

The worker and a 17-year-old…

A worker suffered injuries to his face and knees when he fell two metres in a maintenance hangar at Heathrow Airport.

John Nicholas, 59, from Gloucester, was employed by aircraft…

A laminate flooring firm has been sentenced after a worker at its Merseyside factory suffered severe injuries to his left hand.

Christopher Sillitoe now has difficulty dressing himself, and using…