A father-of-three was left paralysed from the chest down after falling through a ceiling at a house renovation in Derbyshire. Chesterfield builder Andrew Clifford remained lying face down on the floor ...

Britain’s workplace health and safety regulator, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), is calling on all employers during Stress Awareness Week 2024 to carry out their legal duty to prevent ...

A school trust in Surrey has been fined after part of a pupil’s finger was amputated. The five-year-old boy, a Year 1 pupil at Danetree Primary School in Epsom, had been leaving the toilet on 15 June ...

A farmer from Hampshire has received a suspended prison sentence after a worker fell to his death. Phillip France lost his ...

Sanctuary Housing Association, of Castle Street, Worcester pleaded guilty to breaching Section 3 (1) of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974. The company was fined £900,000 and ordered to pay ...

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ASM Metal Recycling Ltd, of 55 Station Road Beaconsfield Buckinghamshire HP9 1QL, pleaded guilty to breaching Section 2 (1) of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act. They were fined £650,000 and was ...

A contractor from Dorset has been fined after a tree fell onto a forestry worker and left him with life-changing injuries. The 61-year-old man, who was 58 at the time, is now paralysed from the ...

A company has been fined £80,000 after an employee sustained a fractured skull at its site in Glasgow. In addition to a fractured skull, the worker sustained a broken clavicle, a ripped earlobe and ...

A cosmetics company in Yorkshire has been fined more than £50,000 after an inspection by Britain’s workplace regulator uncovered serious electrical failings. Inspectors from the Health and Safety ...