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Mobile access hire company Adastra Access Ltd has been fined £200,000 plus costs after two workers died in a mast climber work platform (MCWP) collapse. Father and son David Bottomley, 53, and 17-year-old Clayton Bottomley were working on the exterior facade at Unity Building in Liverpool. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) said they were

A joinery company in Middlesborough has been fined £10,000 after the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) found “multiple” health and safety breaches.   In an unannounced visit in May 2023, the regulator found Abbey Joinery and Manufacture Limited had failed to protect workers from exposure to wood dust and had failed to properly maintain its

Three major retailers have paid penalties for allegedly making false and misleading representations about their Black Friday sales. Each retailer paid a penalty of $19,800 after the ACCC issued them with one infringement notice each. This follows an ACCC sweep of dozens of sales advertisements for last year's Black Friday and post-Christmas sales events which

A construction firm has been fined £40,000 after an apprentice joiner had his thumb severed off by a rotating blade. The teenage apprentice was working for 3B Construction when the incident happened during the conversion of a 19th century hunting lodge into a luxury hotel in the Highlands. At the time of the incident on

A builder has been fined after admitting he dumped asbestos in a public car park. Ashley Ciminera had been replacing the roof of Harvst at Teifi Warehouse in Cardigan, Wales, in June 2023 when the material was discarded. “He dumped fragmented and broken corrugated asbestos roofing sheets into a car park that had open public

A firm manufacturing stone kitchen worktops has been fined £60,000 plus costs for repeated failures to protect workers from exposure to hazardous silica dust. In a statement yesterday (22 May), the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) said its investigators visited Inova Stone Ltd nine times in six years “and found little or no improvement across

A wood supplier has been fined £40,000 for failing to protect its workers from exposure to wood dust. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) launched an investigation into Fakenham-based Nat Pal Ltd after it discovered dust scattered across the floors of its premises, it said. The prosecution was launched after the firm ignored previous warnings

A construction company has been fined after a kitchen fitter was crushed to death by concrete blocks at a site in Gloucestershire. Martin Dunford, 33, was killed on 23 January 2020 while working on a Piper Homes Construction Ltd housing development at Ebrington Rise, near Chipping Campden. An investigation by the Health and Safety Executive