The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has fined a manufacturing company £240,000 after a worker was killed by a reversing HGV in Birmingham.   David Saint was working as an engineering manager at Northwood Consumer's site in Birmingham when he was struck by an HGV while walking across a service road on an industrial estate on 19 October 2023, the HSE reported.

Autostructures UK, formerly GKN Autostructures, admitted a charge of failing to discharge the employer's general duty under the Health and Safety at Work Act.  An employee who was struck in the head by a piece of machinery died four days later, a court heard.

A London contractor has been given a suspended prison sentenced after risking the lives of workers and ignoring action taken by Britain’s workplace regulator.  The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) ordered Mohammed Mehdi Ali to stop working at a construction site in Willesden on 7 September 2018. Inspectors visited the Willesden Lane site and found unplanned, unsupervised and unsafe work was putting people at serious risk of injury.

The partner of a man critically injured by an exploding jet hose waited until after Christmas to agree to switch off life support.  Estefania Fonseca, who planned to marry Miguel Galvao the following year, was placed in this impossible position following failures by Lanes Group Limited, who have been fined £800,000 following an investigation by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE).

A Worcester-based waste and recycling company has been fined £160,000 after a loading shovel bucket fell onto a maintenance worker.  Blackpole Recycling Limited was prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) following the incident at its site on Blackpole Trading Estate West in Worcester.

A builder has been given a suspended prison sentence after a roof collapse destroyed a home and injured three workers in Windsor.  Jack Savva, 70, was given a 13-month custodial sentence, suspended for two years, following the incident on 6 August 2020. Savva, of Wraysbury in Surrey, was carrying out a loft conversion on the property in Springfield Road, when the gable wall fell into the building after the roof was removed.

The incident happened at a site off Glendower Street in Kirkdale, on Tuesday.  Three people have been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter after a man died in an industrial incident. The man, in his 50s, was injured at a site off Glendower Street, Kirkdale, Liverpool, when a heavy load fell on top of him, Merseyside Police said.  

Qube Containers Limited, which operates on Ipswich docks, has been fined £30,000 after an employee was run over and dragged by a forklift causing serious injuries to his ankle.  The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) brought the prosecution following its investigation of the incident involving Harvey Addison, from Ipswich, on 11 December 2023.

A construction company and its director have been fined after being found guilty of safety breaches that resulted in a five-year-old child being injured by a falling cast iron pipe.  Sage Homes Limited and its director were convicted on Monday 4 August 2025, at Southampton Crown Court, for failing to properly assess a foreseeable risk.

A second company has been fined after an investigation by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) into high-hazard infectious agents.  Lab 21 Healthcare Ltd, a clinical diagnostics company that operated a high-containment laboratory at Millwey Rise Industrial Estate in Axminster, was fined £52,000. It followed similar action taken against the Devon site’s previous operator Omega Diagnostics Ltd, after that company was fined £35,000 in May of this year.