Lifting operations

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.

A pet centre has been fined £185,000 after a lorry driver was left tetraplegic when an 800kg pallet fell on him.

A construction firm must pay £63,000 after being spotted using a makeshift platform for a mobile crane and failing to use edge protection on a scaffold platform.

PCR Steel has been convicted of safety failings after a worker was crushed by a balcony frame weighing about 400kg.

More than half of Britain’s working days lost in 2019/20 were due to mental ill-health.

A transport company has been fined after a worker was fatally injured when the pallet of stone tiles he was attempting to deliver fell onto him.