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Engineering firm fined following electrician's death

A Scottish engineering firm has been fined £300,000 following the electrocution of an employee in 2005.Electrician Michael Adamson, 26, a qualified electrician, was working at the JJB Sports Centre and Retail Outlet, which was under construction at the Gallagher Retail Park in Dundee. He was installing cables, fixtures ...

Case | 24 Oct 2008
Survival of the fit note?

...ring Shell pleaded guilty to seven charges covering safety, environmental control and pollutionprevention failures at the plant which led to the blast. Shell UK was fined a total of £1m and ordered to pay £242,000 costs. CASES IN BRIEF Carlisle firm fined over death at tractor pulling contest An engineering firm has been sentenced following the death of a man in a high-speed crash at a tractor pulling competition in Lancashire. Jan van Alphen was competing in the Euro Challenge Cup when his tractor was crushed after a 12-tonne box of weights, attached to the trailer he was pulling, hit the back of his...

Magazine issue | 5 Jul 2011