A specialist plastering contractor has been fined after two workers were seriously injured during construction of Derby’s Westfield shopping centre.

The workers, who have asked not to be named, fell around seven metres when the scissor lift they were using to transport plasterboards between floor levels overturned. The incident happened on 16 August 2007.A 22-year-old from [...]

A paper firm has been fined after a Derbyshire worker suffered severe and permanent hand injuries.

This incident took place July 2008.
A young construction worker suffered life-changing injuries after falling six metres through the roof of a farm building a court has heard.

The incident took place on 20th Novemeber 2009.
A factory worker, who was working as a team leader, was operating a core-treater line, which coats paper with resin so that it can be cut into blocks and used for the back of laminated products when his hand was drawn inbetween 2no rotating metal rollers on the [...]

A haulage company, this month, has been fined £5,000 after one of its employees suffered brain damage when he was struck on the head by a 290kg panel saw.
The injured party was delivering panel saws to to an equipment retailer, on 16 August 2007 when one fell off the vehicle, hitting him on the head [...]

A shopfitting contractor has been fined in the last week following the exposure of five workers to Asbestos fibres.
The contractor in question have been prosecuted by the HSE for ignoring the asbestos report for the unit within the Arndale Centre they were working on, which stated that there was asbestos present.  In October 2009 two workers [...]

On 21st November 2008 a mobile plant fitter was crushed to death whilst working under neath an excavator to remove the transmission at a quarry in Scotland.  The Fitter was not familiar with the vehicle and had not previously carried out this task.  As he had not received any information/methodology on how to carry out [...]

Following at fatality on a site in Somerset an architectural practice and a construction company have been fined a total of £195,000.
The project was to build a new conference centre, which was completed and in use when a fault was reported with the air-conditioning.  On 26 January 2005, the contractor in question contracted an air conditioning [...]

Avoiding trapping/crushing injuries to people in the platform of Mobile Elevating Work Platforms (MEWPs)
The HSE have recently issued a Safety Bulletin in relation to the prevention of entrapment of operators using MEWPs adjacent to obstructions. 
The use of MEWPs has contributed to the reduction of falls from heights since their introduction, and they are often [...]

A construction company contracted to carry out rennovations to a large detached house in Brighton together with two of the company directors have been fined in excess of £90,000 following the death of a member of the public.
On 29th June 2008, a 24 year old man had been out drinking with his friends, and during [...]