Risk management

A family building firm has been fined £225,000 after a 32 year old worker was crushed to death when his dumper truck overturned.

Boal UK has been ordered to pay £133,000 after a worker sustained serious hand and leg injuries during a failed lifting operation.

A school board of trustees has been ordered to pay NZ$100,000 (£49,338) after a teacher and student were knocked unconscious and left with brain damage after a mobile scaffold being used to set up lights in the school's auditorium toppled over.

Ferry operator Stena Line has been fined £400,000 after a workerwas struck by a 3.5-tonne delivery van being reversed out of a docked vessel.

Waste disposal firm Mid UK Recycling has been prosecuted after a worker’s arm was dragged into a conveyor belt, which led to a shredder. 

Private care provider Bupa has won an appeal against a £3m fine over the death of a pensioner at a nursing home.

The director of a building firm has been sentenced to ten months’ imprisonment after he fatally crushed an employee with a digger.

In what is thought to be the first reported case of burns from retro-reflective tape, an Australian doctor is warning of the dangers of wearing high-vis shirts in direct sunlight.

Bus company Cambus and Bedford Borough Council have been convicted of health and safety breaches after a woman was fatally hit by a lorry at a bus station.

A Co. Antrim man has been ordered to pay £20,000 after an employee had an arm amputated by a screw auger conveyor at an animal feed manufacturing site.