All Health and safety cases articles
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Balfour Beatty fined over London asbestos exposure
Contractor one of three firms ordered to pay more than £1m following 2012 incident
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Body found at Didcot power station six months after collapse
The boiler house at Didcot Power Station collapsed on 23 February
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Contractor replaced on Didcot collapse search
Coleman and Company replaced on ongoing search for three missing men
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Severfield fined after forklift death
The steel specialist was fined over the death of a forklift truck operator
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Firm fined over Battersea crane disaster deaths
Southwark Crown Court has sentenced Falcon Crane Hire over two deaths in London in 2006
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Balfour Beatty fined £1m for worker death
A subsidiary of Balfour Beatty has been fined £1m following the 2012 death of Larry Newman
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Boss faces court eight years after Battersea crane deaths
Falcon Cranes hearing scheduled more than eight years after disaster
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Firms to pay over £2.7m to crane collapse victim
Crane driver left paralysed from the waist down by crane colapse settles with firms
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Firms fined over lorry death
Two companies have been ordered to pay almost £800,000 in fines and costs after a driver was run over and killed by his own lorry
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Construction firms fined £60k after worker crushed
Worker suffers brain injury from falling equipment
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Leicestershire housebuilder fined £20,000 after eight-year-old injured
Boy suffered liver damage and abdominal bleeding when a stack of roof trusses fell on him
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Sir Robert McAlpine and others fined as worker loses leg on Arsenal job
Three contractors pleaded guilty to breaching the Health and Safety at Work Act on Emirates Stadium build
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Work related deaths: Swift justice
The third version of the Work Related Deaths Protocol came into effect on 1 October, and it could see firms responsible for a fatality on their site prosecuted a lot quicker
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Safety obligations: Common law liability
In a case concerning hearing loss among employees, the Supreme Court has come down in favour of a common law approach to safety, rather than stricter statutory law
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Firm fined £6K for flouting safety rules
Firm failed to address problems despite repeated calls
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The tragic case of a 15-year-old killed on site
Here’s a tragic case of a young man who was killed when a wall collapsed on him. His gaffer was a man of good character who didn’t mean anyone any harm. He got three years
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Scottish firm fined £9,000 for explosion injury
Graeme W Cheyne found at fault for joiner’s burns after HSE investigation
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Prepare yourself for a shock: D&O insurance for corporate manslaughter
The Corporate Manslaughter Act puts company executives in the firing line for breaches of health and safety, so it’s wise to get some protection