£187,000 Fine in First Corporate Manslaughter Case in Northern Ireland

A Sheffield man is lucky to be alive after suffering multiple injuries in a three metre fall down a flight of stairs at his home.
Michael Hall fell from the top of a new staircase that had been left without a handrail by a local builder during refurbishment work at his home in Dobcroft Road.

A Hertfordshire building company has been fined for injuring a woman as she waited for a bus.

An animal feed producer and a maintenance contractor have been fined after a woman fell five metres through a fragile warehouse roof in Staffordshire.

Two Nottingham companies have been fined after a worker fell more than nine metres, injuring his back.

HSE Construction inspectors are carrying out an intensive inspection initiative during February and March 2012, focusing on the refurbishment/building site risks that make construction one of Britain’s most dangerous industries – working at height safely, good order on site, and the risks associated with the removal of asbestos.

Workers exposed to asbestos at Redditch industrial unit

The managing director of a St Helens gas supply firm has appeared in court after he and an employee suffered multiple burns in an explosion.
John Webster was prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) after he and another worker received burns to their faces, hands and legs at North West Gases Ltd. A third employee sustained minor injuries in the explosion, which lifted the roof off the building on Alma Street in St Helens.

A construction company and director have been fined following the death of a worker at a site in Hampstead.

A Staffordshire-based aluminium casting company has been prosecuted after a man was burned by molten metal at its Worcester factory.