Work equipment

A meat processing plant in New Zealand has been ordered to pay almost $300,000 after a worker suffered severe burns to most of his body when a boiler exploded.

A tile manufacturer has been prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) after an employee's arm was drawn into the in-running nip of a conveyor tail drum.

An independent school in Scotland has been prosecuted by the HSE after a pupil seriously damaged his hand in a technology lesson

A textile manufacturer has been convicted of safety failings after a worker was killed when he was dragged into a stretch roller

No guard meant agency worker’s arm was dragged into machine

The HSA has amended the welfare regs on the use of work equipment

Investigators found no emergency stop on poultry processing machine

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has prosecuted a Surrey firm after a child sustained multiple fractures to her pelvis and internal injuries when a 5m-long gate fell on her.

De La Rue, the company that prints the UK's banknotes, has appeared in court after an employee had to have his face reconstructed when his head got trapped in a gap in a paper press machine.

The materials division of French glazing giant Saint-Gobain has been prosecuted after a worker’s left arm had to be amputated after he was seriously injured when a rock handling belt failed at the company’s Barrow plant.