Recent Prosecutions

  A civil engineering construction company has been fined £600K for safety breaches after a seven-year-old child became trapped and suffocated on a construction site. Seven-year-old […]

A mining company has been fined after two electricians suffered severe burns in separate incidents. The owners of mining company Boulby Mine in Saltburn-by-the-Sea were fined […]

Technology firm Dyson has been fined £1.2m after an employee sustained head and chest injuries when he was struck by a 1.5 tonne milling machine. The […]

The grieving uncle of a four-year-old boy killed on a farm has urged everyone in agriculture to do more to keep children safe. Brian Nutter was […]

A retail company and an electrical contracting company have been fined after an electrician suffered serious burns to 15 per cent of his body when he […]

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is investigating the death of a 27-year-old worker at a steelworks in Scunthorpe. The incident happened on Saturday 16 July […]

A building owner has been sentenced to 12 months in prison after an employee was left paralysed when a hoist platform he was working from plummeted […]

A fire service has been prosecuted after two of its firefighters received serious head injuries – with one paralysed from the chest down – after a […]

A Health Board has been fined following the death of a vulnerable patient who left a hospital ward unnoticed through an unsecured door. The Health and […]