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 Life-changing one tonne load fall results in £95,000 fine

Monday 13th March 2023
We spoke to Health and Safety Executive (HSE) inspector Andrew Johnson about a case where a one-tonne pallet of glass fell on a United Pallet Network (UK) Limited’s employee, causing life-changing injuries.
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  Inadequate supervision on night shift led to fatality at dock

Friday 2nd September 2022
A cargo firm has been ordered to pay £200,000 after an employee was crushed between two shipping containers.
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 ‘Lift shaft’ fall lands landlord with 12 months in prison

Tuesday 23rd August 2022
We speak to HSE Inspector Andy McGrory about how a difficult investigation into a rudimentary ‘lift shaft’ fall eventually put a 78-year-old landlord in jail for a year.
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 Dyson lands £1.2m fine after worker escapes more serious injuries

Friday 5th August 2022
Dyson Technologies has been handed a £1.2 million fine after a worker at its Wiltshire site narrowly escaped being crushed by a 1.5 tonne milling machine.
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 Management failings led to Jewson worker’s life-changing injuries and £400k fine

Tuesday 24th May 2022
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.
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 Gateshead transport and haulage business fined £200k for fatal container fall

Wednesday 13th April 2022
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.
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 £1.5 million fine for fatal crane fall

Thursday 10th March 2022
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.
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 Scaffolder’s £515k penalty for worker’s crush injury

Friday 4th March 2022
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.
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 Mobile tower fall death: background to a tragedy

Tuesday 1st February 2022
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.
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 £14,400 fine following care home lift shaft death

Tuesday 21st December 2021
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.
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