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We scour the Internet for Health and Safety related news items on an almost daily basis.

The news articles and clippings, curated by MD Safety, highlight the requirements for compliance with UK Health and Safety Legislation and best practice across all industry sectors.

The majority of the information and cases will apply to a greater or lesser degree to our broad range of Clients and lessons to be learned will be able to be gained.

Joshua Hardman sustained fatal head injuries after a 'catastrophic release' of compressed air from a tractor tyre propelled the wheel rim into the 23-year-old

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A self-employed roofer has received a suspended prison sentence after a man suffered serious injuries after falling from scaffold in Devon.  Daniel Hooper was given a 16-week custodial sentence, which will be suspended for a period of 12 months, following Iain Smith, 36, falling from a height of more than 25 feet while working for him, on 13 June 2023.

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A Norfolk dealership has been fined £200,000 in a prosecution this month by the Health and Safety Executive after one of its technicians died in a horrific workplace accident.  The business, Ford and Slater at King's Lynn, had not carried out a proper risk assessment, the HSE found, and hadn't provided the technician with the necessary equipment and safeguards for the job.

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An investigation has been launched after a council-contracted worker reportedly fell off the roof of a former school. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) confirmed to the ECHO it is investigating an incident involving a worker falling from the top of the Hamilton Building on Conway Street, Birkenhead. The incident took place on February 4.

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Buckinghamshire Council has successfully prosecuted a garden furniture business whose health and safety failings led to an employee suffering serious head injuries after falling from an unguarded mezzanine floor.  Garden Furniture Global Ltd pleaded guilty to the charge of failing to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, the health, safety and welfare of its employees, when the case   came before the District Judge at High Wycombe Magistrates Court on Friday 7 February 2025.

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Mortgage lenders are withdrawing offers to homebuyers with fire safety certificates issued by Adam Kiziak's company, Tri Fire.  An expert has been accused of signing off fire safety certificates for flats in high-rise blocks using the credentials and signature of another engineer without permission, the BBC has been told.

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On May 13, 2020, father-of-three Jack Stevens, 28, who was driving a BMW, died when a strip of timber came loose from a Travis Perkins vehicle on the A26 after it left the company's Newhaven depot.  The court heard how only a single strap was used on the load which did not adequately secure it, and the lashing was insufficient.

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A manufacturing firm in Ipswich has been fined after two workers were struck by slabs of stone, with one of the men sustaining multiple bone fractures as a result.  Three slabs of quartz stone fell from a stillage onto Steven Constable and Struan Dunsmore while they worked at Bespoke Stone Ltd’s workshop on Dales Road.

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An MOT test centre in London has been fined £10,000 after a 14-year-old boy was pinned to the wall by a vehicle while he was sitting in a waiting area.  On 4 May 2022, the boy was sitting alongside an adult at New Auto Tech Ltd, awaiting the completion of an MOT. The chair was positioned right in front of the brake rollers; however, as the MOT technician attempted to reverse the car, it unexpectedly surged forward off the brake rollers, pinning the child against the wall.

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A manufacturer in Sheffield has been fined after a steel pallet landed on an employee, leaving him permanently disabled.  The 800kg load crushed Wayne Hatton’s legs during a night shift at Amber Precast Ltd’s factory on 14 January 2021.  Mr Hatton, from Doncaster, had his right lower leg amputated with two toes on his left foot also being removed following the incident at Davy Business Park.

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