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A skip-hire firm and its contractor have been fined almost £30,000 after a gas explosion led to the evacuation of a Derbyshire village. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) said Elliott Kirk, a contractor working for Belper Skip Hire Ltd, struck the gas main with a mechanical post knocker while installing fencing around Belper’s farm

A construction firm has been fined £800,000 after health and safety failures led to the death of a 10-year-old boy at one of its sites. Shea Ryan and other children entered RJ McLeod’s site at Drumchapel in Glasgow, which is next to a play park, on 16 July 2020 through insecure fencing. Shea began to

Both TSB and its CIO have now been fined for the catastrophic migration of TSB’s core banking system By Cliff Saran, Managing Editor Published: 14 Apr 2023 10:15 The Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) at the Bank of England has fined the former CIO of TSB bank for his part in the catastrophic migration of the

Amey Rail Ltd has been fined £533,000 by industry regulator the Office of Rail and Road after a worker was electrocuted. On Christmas Day 2019, Allister Hunt, a self-employed senior linesman for Amey, touched a live contact wire running 25,000 volts and suffered 55 per cent burns, which required multiple skin grafts. His eyesight and

A company with an £81m income has been ordered to pay £2.3m for a health and safety violation. Exolum Pipeline System workers (formerly CLH Pipeline System) were excavating a suspected pipeline leak in woodland near Holme, North Lincolnshire in March 2018. Workers mending the pipeline were at risk of being sprayed in petrol vapour. Petroleum

The site of the accident A London-based subcontractor has been fined £175,000 after a worker’s serious head injuries saw him hospitalised for seven months. The accident took place in March 2019 during concrete-pumping work at a domestic property in north London carried out by Singh Will Mix It. A concrete-pump operator, who was not qualified

The operator of the Sellafield nuclear site has been fined £400,000 after a worker suffered life-changing back injuries when he fell three metres from a scaffolding ladder.  Sellafield Ltd, which is controlled by government agency the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, was given the fine after admitting a health and safety breach. It was also ordered to

Winvic has been hit with a £160,000 fine and ordered to pay £25,000 in costs for polluting a brook in the East Midlands. The contractor worked on the £67m East Midlands Gateway (EMG), where it built a strategic rail freight interchange that included a rail interchange hub and 10 logistics plots for the likes of Amazon and Games