CQMS News
Stay up-to-date with the latest health and safety news from CQMS. Also, check out recent HSE and Corporate Manslaughter prosecutions.
10th January 2023
A council has been fined £280,000 after the death of a six-year-old girl who was hit by a falling tree in her school playground. Ella Henderson […]
6th January 2023
An aircraft maintenance company has been fined £230k after a worker fell from height while inspecting wings at its facility in Cardiff. Iain Mawson, a British […]
22nd December 2022
A property management company has been fined £200,000 after an employee was left in a wheelchair after falling eight metres through a rooflight. Robin Williamson, an […]
22nd December 2022
A building company has been fined £66,667 after a worker was injured when a floor that was under construction collapsed. The Lusson Ltd worker was one […]
22nd December 2022
A food production company has been fined £858,000 after an employee had his arm amputated after becoming entangled in an industrial food mixer. Lee Simpson was […]
15th December 2022
A family-run plumbing business has been fined £4,000 after a blind man fell into an open manhole. The 62-year-old registered-blind resident of Hanover Court, a sheltered […]
15th December 2022
A Scottish confectionery and meringue manufacturer has been fined £5,000 after a worker was badly injured in a fall from a forklift truck. The employee of […]
7th December 2022
A fire authority has been fined after a firefighter was trapped underneath a car in a training exercise, breaking his legs in more than a dozen […]
2nd December 2022
The wife of a man left severely disabled by a workplace accident says he is a “stranger in her husband’s body”. Sue McFarlane’s partner John suffered […]
2nd December 2022
A plumbing and heating engineer has been jailed for 20 weeks after carrying out illegal gas work. Peter Read, who traded as A.C.E Plumbing and Heating […]
2nd December 2022
A chemicals company has been fined £800,000 after a worker suffered life-changing injuries in an explosion. The employee of International Paint Limited spent eight days in […]
28th November 2022
A demolition firm has been fined and one of its directors ordered to do 250 hours of unpaid work after a 20-year-old worker was crushed. Ace […]
