Michael Turner, 49, of Earls Colne, Colchester, appeared at Inner London Crown Court after pleading guilty to gross negligent manslaughter after one of his employees, and friend of 15 years,…
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A building company firm has been fined for safety failings after an employee suffered permanent injury to his eye from lack of correct protection. Luton Magistrates’ Court heard how on…
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Base Build Services Limited has been prosecuted after a worker was injured by a boom type mobile elevated working platform (MEWP) when it fell from the forks of a tele-handler…
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A large digger has crippled a lengthy stretch of the London Overground in White city near Mitre Bridge when it ran into and tore down the overhead cables that supplied…
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A scaffold firm was fined after a worker was seriously injured after falling nine metres. Bristol Magistrates’ Court heard how an employee of Bristol-based Tubular Access Scaffolds Limited was dismantling…
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A man sustained serious, life-changing injuries after striking a 415v electricity cable during work to refurbish a pharmacy in central London. The labourer struck the underground cable while digging a…
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Two associate companies have been fined after the death of a worker in London, killed when concrete joists fell on him. Electrician John Walker, who worked for 777 Environmental Limited,…
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A concrete pumping company has been fined after a worker was injured when his foot got trapped by the paddles in the hopper of a concrete pump. The Health and…
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Two companies Siemens and Flour have been fined £650,000 over an accident with a wind turbine blade that left one man dead and seriously injured another. Danish worker Per Terp…
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An agricultural services company was fined following an incident in which two workers were injured during construction work at a farm in Goxill, north Lincolnshire. Scunthorpe Magistrates’ Court heard two…
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