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HSE machinery warning following finger injury
The HSE has renewed warnings to firms to watch out for faulty machinery, following the prosecution of another firm over a finger injury. Napier Brown & Co of Normanton was fined £3,000, and ordered to pay costs of £2,446 at Wakefield magistrates' court on 21 November. The prosecution followed an incident...
Case | 27 Nov 2008
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HSE warns against untrained workers operating machinery
The HSE has warned of the dangers of untrained staff using machinery after a worker in Bury had three fingers cut off. Tetrosyl Ltd pleaded guilty to two offences under health and safety legislation at Manchester Crown Court on Wednesday 29 July. It was fined £50,000 and ordered to pay full costs of £6,...
Case | 4 Aug 2009
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HSE warns firms to use adequate guarding after worker suffers severe hand injuries
The HSE has warned companies that they must take effective measures to prevent access to dangerous parts of machinery after an Essex worker suffered severe injuries to his right hand. The call follows the prosecution of Anglian Timber Ltd after the man had his index finger amputated and suffered signific...
Case | 4 Feb 2009
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HSE warns companies to clean machinery safely after latest prosecution
The HSE is warning employers to make sure that they have safe systems in place to clean and maintain machinery after an employee was seriously injured while working at a Kent plasterboard company. This follows the prosecution of Knauf UK GMBH, which pleaded guilty at Sittingbourne Magistrates Court and, on...
Case | 18 Nov 2008
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Water company fined after employee loses four fingers
The HSE is warning employers that they must regularly inspect and maintain their equipment to protect their workforce. This follows the HSE's prosecution of a Birmingham company after an incident that left a Derbyshire worker without four fingers and part of his palm. Severn Trent Water Ltd was fined £19,...
Case | 29 Jan 2008
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Employer prosecuted for factory injury to child
A Kings Lynn company has been fined £5,000 with £4,300 costs, and one of its directors fined £400 following the injury of a two-year-old child on a factory conveyor in November 2002. The HSE warned companies to ensure that machinery is correctly guarded and reminded business owners that children are not allowed in factories. HSE Inspector Steve Gill commented: “The HSE wishes to make it clear that we expect business risks to be properly managed and machinery to be guarded in acc...
Case | 29 Jun 2007
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Cutting corners led to employee’s fingers being amputated
The HSE has warned businesses not to try to save money by cutting corners on worker safety after a man lost three fingers operating an industrial power press. The warning came as Crane Hill Engineering was fined a total of £12,000 plus £2,300 costs by Northampton Magistrates following the accident. ...
Case | 12 Jun 2006
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Has the HSE lost its bite?
workplacelaw know-how to manage your workplace APRIL 2006 ISSUE 16 Health and safety policies and how to communicate them The Corporate Manslaughter Bill David Bergman on the CCA's objections Has the HSE lost its bite? The Executive's enforcement policy under attack Highly commended: PPA Magazine of the Year 2005 interactive business and professional Highly commended: AOP Online Publisher of the Year 2005 - business IN EVERY ISSUE: EMPLOYMENT LAW, HEALTH & SAFETY, PREMISES MANAGEMENT workplac...
Magazine issue | 1 Apr 2006
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Company fined £10,000 for worker who lost four fingers in machinery
The HSE is reminding companies of the importance of adequately guarded machinery following an accident where a man lost four fingers and part of his thumb. Tex Engineering Ltd, of Ipswich in Suffolk, was sentenced at Basingstoke Magistrates Court on Monday 12 October 2009 following an incident on 24 F...
Case | 13 Oct 2009
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Teenager seriously injured in printing accident
The HSE has warned of the importance of using safe working procedures when cleaning printing machinery. The warning follows the prosecution of East Lancashire Box Company after a 16-year-old employee's hand was dragged into a printing machine while he was cleaning it. The HSE has also reminded companie...
Case | 6 Feb 2009
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Company fined after two lose hands in separate incidents
A company that ignored a warning from the HSE that it was selling a potentially dangerous grass collecting product, and by doing so caused two people to have a hand amputated, has been fined £175,000 with costs of £21,894. Agricultural machinery firm Kubota UK was warned by the HSE in June 1999 that its bladed grass collector had injured...
Case | 5 Dec 2006
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Michelin fined
...£100,000 and ordered to pay £12,500 in costs at Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court. The company pleaded guilty to a breach of Regulation 11(1) of the Provision & Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998 at an earlier hearing at Newcastle Magistrates Court in January 2006. Following the prosecution, the HSE is warning businesses of the dangers of allowing people to adapt safety equipment on industrial machinery. HSE Investigating Inspector, Janice Dale, said: “In this case Michelin Tyres PLC failed to ensure that all safety measures were in place on their work equipment. If the guarding arra...
Case | 24 Jul 2006
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Dealing with bogus claimants
...of brand new films were just some of the ingredients that went into the 11th annual Workplace Law conference and dinner. 44 CLIENT FOCUS: WELL COORDINATED How Workplace Law helped a leading IT firm meet its health and safety requirements when preparing its new London office. teChniCaL 38 THE DATA HSE: In 2008/09 falls from height accounted for 35 fatal accidents at work and around 4,700 major injuries. They remain the single biggest cause of workplace deaths and one of the main causes of major injury. EAT: An experienced accountant, aged 50, who applied for jobs aimed at newly qualified account...
Magazine issue | 1 Mar 2010
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Killing time
...the organisation as a whole. Find out how the organisation has essentially reinvented itself from p. 26. Returning to practicalities briefly, key to how the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act will actually work in practice, is in its enforcement and investigation. It appears that the HSE will not be a prosecuting authority for Corporate Manslaughter. With the weight of investigation on the shoulders of the police, there are considerable implications for how this responsibility will be managed in terms of the resources and finances of the police service. At a recent corporate mansla...
Magazine issue | 27 Feb 2008
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Legalised ignorance? – the threat of health and safety legislative change
...hy changes such as those proposed by Mr Hepburn represent a threat to all UK directors not just those designated with responsibility for health and safety duties. The article also describes the problem of overlapping directors legal expenses insurance and the solution to the issue in this case. HSE -v- Wilcox – the facts Malcolm France died on 29 October 2001. He was an experienced maintenance engineer at a rubber factory. He had been employed at the factory for more than 20 years, was proud of his role and respected by his colleagues. He was known around the plant as "Mr Safety". M...
Case | 10 Mar 2005
