Quarrying company fined for not reporting occupational illness

A quarrying company has been fined after an employee contracted the potentially fatal disease silicosis.

Robert Thomas Charlton, trading as Border Stone Quarries, of Kirkholmdale, Haltwhistle, was fined £6,000 plus £7,602 costs at Tynedale Magistrates' Court. Charlton pleaded guilty to charges, brought by HSE, of breaching:

regulations 7(1) and 11(1) of the Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations 2002 (as amended) - COSHH - by failing to ensure employees' exposur... (287 more words)

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