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A company and its director have been fined £18,000 after a man was injured when a wall collapse led to him bing buried during excavation work in West Sussex. The collapsed excavation JHE Construction and its director Jordan Hay-Ellis pleaded guilty to breaching health and safety laws following the incident on 23 February 2023, the

An Essex developer that showed a “total disregard” for its workers’ safety has been hit by a £63,000 fine, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has announced. Nine enforcement notices were served against Nofax Enterprises Ltd, including five prohibition notices, after the regulator said it found “multiple failures” at a construction site in East London.

Network Rail has been fined £3.41m following the death of a track worker in Surbiton.  Tyler Byrne died after being struck by a passenger train on 9 February 2021. He had been working as part of a four-man team undertaking track inspections while trains were running in both directions.  The Office for Rail and Road

A judge has fined Network Rail £3.75m over the death of two of its employees, who were killed after being hit by a train. The rail infrastructure operator pleaded guilty to breaching health and safety law in relation to the incident that happened in South Wales six years ago . Gareth Delbridge (left) and Mike

The death of a 47-year-old worker on a bridge project in North Carolina was a “preventable fatality,” and the construction company that employed him faces proposed penalties of $40,000, according to the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration. The diver was part of a four-man dive team employed by Maryland-based Coastal Gunite Construction Company to

By Mark Hunter 1 day agoTue Jan 28 2025 09:03:38 Reading Time: 2 minutes KuCoin has pleaded guilty to operating an unlicensed money-transmitting business The company has agreed to pay penalties totaling nearly $300 million KuCoin will exit the U.S. market for at least two years, and its founders will step down from management roles

A construction company has been fined after a 64-year-old worker plummeted to his death from a seat suspended from a church steeple. Ecclesiastical Steeplejacks, which has ceased trading, was ordered to pay £60,000 by Birmingham Magistrates’ Court last week. The firm had employed David Clover to carry out restoration work to St Nicolas’ Church in

Bam Nuttall has been fined £800,000 after the death of a 23-year-old at a windfarm site in Shetland. Liam MacDonald, from Tain in Rossshire, was killed while removing dried concrete from a skip at a site on Upper Kergord, according to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). The HSE statement said the agency worker, who