Lifting operations

Builders’ merchant Jewson has been fined £400,000 by Folkestone Magistrates’ Court following an incident where a tonne of iron mesh sheets fell onto two of its workers, leaving one with life-changing injuries. Matt Lamy spoke to Thanet District Council’s Public Protection Officer Simon Hogben about what happened.

A family-run transport and haulage company founded in Newcastle upon Tyne in the 1930s has been fined £200,000 after a longstanding employee died from injuries sustained in a fatal fall.

World-renowned former steelwork specialist, Cleveland Bridge UK Ltd, has been fined £1.5 million by Teesside Crown Court following a case where an electrician fell more than 20 feet to his death from a gantry crane.

A Suffolk-based scaffolding firm that pleaded guilty to multiple safety failings has been ordered to pay more than £515k after one of its employees sustained a life-changing crush injury.

On 15 January 2022 at Cambridge Magistrates Court, Peter Saunders Builders Ltd was fined £16,000 after pleading guilty to breaching regulation 8 (a) of the Work at Height Regulations 2005, following an incident that saw one of its workers, Sean Harding, fall from height and subsequently die.

Poor maintenance meant the lift door at Serendipity Care Home was damaged, causing it to bend and then buckle under its own weight, before dropping uncontrolled to the basement.

A care home firm in Flintshire, Wales has been fined £90,000 after one of its staff – a newly-recruited care home manager – fell down a lift shaft.

Rotherham’s Principal Environmental Health Officer Adrian Monkhouse explains how a crane engineer’s six-metre fall resulted in fines totalling £100,000 and a renewed focus on contractor safety.

A Birmingham tyre firm and its landlord have been fined a total of £43,333 at Birmingham Magistrates’ Court after pleading guilty to breaching health and safety legislation.

A distribution firm has been fined £300,000 over safety failings after a conveyor belt collapsed in a ‘scissor-like motion’ and crushed one of its workers.