Manufacture & Industrial News
Within the Manufacture and Industrial news page, we have included articles we feel would benefit those in this sector. The news page will regularly be updated with manufacturing and industrial articles.
HSE releases annual workplace fatality figures
Today annual figures for work- related fatalities, as well as the number of people known to have died from the asbestos-related cancer from 2015 has been shared by the Health and Safety Executive.
Roofing company fined after safety failings
Due to the fact, inadequate precautionary measures were failed to be put in place, a roofing company has today been sentenced for safety failings to working at height.
Spectral Colours fined due to machinery crushing employees foot
If spectral colours had been more thorough in ensuring that the installation of the machinery was completed properly, then the worker who sat on one of the clamping arms wouldn’t have toppled over and pinned the worker’s leg underneath the machine.
Two men Die within the Waste & Recycling Industry after being crushed
The waste and recycling industry has claimed two lives, with two men dying on separate incidents within a month of each other.
Trainee electrician falls after working at height
The apprentice, Soheil Afrapour, spent 23 days in hospital after suffering head injuries. He was installing wiring above the false ceiling for Mr Soheil Alipour.
£400k fine for packagers’ ‘utterly dangerous’ maintenance procedures
After one of its maintenance workers was dragged into machinery and injured a supplier of corrugated cardboard packaging has been prosecuted.
Two firms fined over worker falling from telehandler
Two companies from Carmarthenshire and West Midlands have been fined after a worker was killed when he fell from a telehandler.
Two-year jail sentence for director follows MEWP failure fatality
Donald Craig, who runs a company called Craig Services & Access, has been sentenced to two years’ imprisonment for breaches of Health and Safety law after his company hired an unsafe cherry picker, which buckled whilst it was in use, resulting in a death of one worker and seriously injuring another.
Director escapes manslaughter charge after band’s double fatality
The director of a manufacturer that made a two-tonne steel door that killed a band’s singer and its promoter has been cleared of gross negligence manslaughter in a jury trial at Guildford Crown Court.
The owner of a vehicle garage based in North London has been given a suspended prison sentence for breaches uncovered whilst a Health and Safety Executive (HSE) investigation took place due to an employee being attacked by a guard dog.
Somerset company fined over death
A company situated in Somerset has been fined as a result of the death of a worker who fell through a factory roof skylight.
An expensive way of not identifying vibration risk with power tools
A manufacturing company in Somerset has been fined for safety failings, and not creating suitable and sufficient assessment of risk
Manufacturer fined after worker was crushed by door
A manufacturer based in Worcestershire has been fined after one of their employees nearly lost their finger when a door collapsed and pinned him to a baler.
Worker suffers serious burns after clothes catch on fire
A foundry based in Batley has been fined after a worker suffered serious burns when his clothing caught fire.
Construction firm sentenced after worker falls down pit
Jehu Project Services Ltd, a Cardiff-based construction company, has been sentenced after one of their workers was seriously injured falling down a lift pit.
A company which manufactures rubber sealants has been fined after a worker contracted allergic contact dermatitis.
Vitacress Salad Limited
Vitacress Salad Limited, a company that grows and package salads, have received a fine because an employee lost the tips of their two fingers in a bagging machine.