articleStevedores fined after trailer fall injury
A Glamorgan stevedoring company has been fined for breaking safety legislation after an employee suffered severe leg injuries falling from a trailer.
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newsWorkers burned when crane spilled 300 tonnes of molten steel at Tata
Global steel giant Tata has been prosecuted after three employees suffered serious burns when tonnes of molten metal spilled onto the factory floor and ignited.
articleLack of planning and supervision behind heavy lifting injury
Court found the complicated lift of a two tonne metal frame involving two forklifts swung out of control with a bystander hit and injured.
articleWorker loses leg after forklift drops heavy load
A Tameside factory worker had to have part of his left leg amputated after he was struck by an 850kg metal frame being delivered to a plant in Glossop, a court has heard.
articleAgency worker leg crushed under half tonne A-frame
A Forfar metal galvanising company has been sentenced after an agency worker suffered serious leg injuries when a half-tonne A-frame slipped and fell onto him from a forklift truck.
articleWarehouse team leader trapped between two forklifts
An East Yorkshire produce company has been ordered to pay more than £46,000 after two workers were seriously injured by reversing forklift trucks in separate incidents at its vegetable processing factory in Chicksands, Bedfordshire.
articleSuspended prison sentence for man over warehouse roof death
A Lancashire-based toy distributor and a builder have been sentenced after a worker plunged to his death through a warehouse roof.
productDelivery driver killed as forklift drops load
A Sheffield steel company has been sentenced after a catalogue of safety failings led to a 42-year-old worker being killed when he was knocked off his lorry and then crushed by a three-tonnes load of steel tubes.
newsYard worker injured due to poor segregation
A fuel supply business has been sentenced after one of its workers was injured after being struck by a vehicle in a works yard.
newsWorker buried alive under load tipped by lorry
A transport company was fined £80,000 after one of its employees died when he was buried under tonnes of wheat being unloaded from a lorry.
articleOperator killed by over-turned reach truck
Aluminium fabricator Boal UK was fined £140,000 after the worker was crushed under the forklift, which had hit an overhead beam.
articleSling snaps during lift crushing worker
Pelloby Engineering has been fined after a beam weighing two tonnes fell onto an employee causing severe injuries.
articlePoorly managed awkward lift leads to crush death
A father-of-two died when a metal frame being loaded onto a lorry trailer by a forklift fell on top of him.
product‘A miracle he was not killed’ says judge
Logistics firm hit by £100,000+ penalties after a worker suffered life-changing injuries in a fall from a roof.
articleWheeled crane causes serious arm injury
Totternhoe Metal Recycling Limited (TMR) have been fined after a worker was injured while delivering waste metal.
articleAgency worker hurled from forklift tines
The 26 year old was thrown from the forks of a forklift truck and crushed between it and the back of a lorry suffering broken vertebrae, a fractured pelvis and blood blisters all over his body.
articleCorporate manslaughter analysis
CAV Aerospace was fined £600,000 and ordered to pay £125,000 costs, after being found guilty of corporate manslaughter and putting their employees at risk following the death of one of its employees in 2013. HSS asks industry experts to offer their best practice advice on how this kind of incident can be avoided.
newsLife-changing injuries after poorly planned lift
A transport company firm has been fined for safety failings after a worker suffered serious injuries when a crate fell on him while he was unloading crates from a container.
news“Pedestrians routinely weaved between forklifts”
A logistics company was fined £20,000 after a worker was hit by a fork-lift truck in a busy yard and suffered head injuries.
articleHelping you be part of the solution
HSE praises materials handling industry for ‘heartening work’ tackling health and safety issues.
