Risk management

Parcel giant Fedex UK has landed a £533,000 fine after an employee was seriously injured when he was struck by a forklift truck.

A Londonderry farmer and building contractor have each been fined £10,000 after a metal shuttering panel fell on an employee.

The boss of a coach company failed to provide training on the safe lifting of vehicles to a mechanic who died after being crushed under a bus, a court has been told.

Thames Water Utilities has been fined £300,000 following an incident in which three workers were carried along a sewer after a 150-year-old gate collapsed.  

An engineering firm in Birmingham has been fined £86,000 after two workers were seriously injured when they were thrown from the chuck of a large vertical boring machine.

Hampshire County Council has been sentenced after a six-year-old girl was injured while playing on a street bollard that had been secured with cable ties. 

The director of a skip hire firm who was prosecuted after an employee was crushed to death by a skid steer loader has been banned from being a company director after more safety breaches were discovered at a new business that he set up in the unit next door.

A Lancashire egg packing firm has been hit with a £60,000 fine after a worker was badly injured when a forklift truck overturned.

The Suzy Lamplugh Trust is calling on employers to sign up to its new charter to help keep lone working employees safer.