Lifting operations

A cargo firm has been ordered to pay £200,000 after an employee was crushed between two shipping containers.

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.

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.

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.