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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.

An employee was using an overhead crane with a C-shaped hook to clean underneath a vertical borer machine when a plate fell.

An Auckland company with a history of health and safety failings has appeared in court