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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.

A 63-year-old man has died after an 'industrial incident' involving a forklift truck at the Port of Liverpool.  Merseyside Police said the incident happened around 10:15 BST on Seaforth docks, and the man died at the scene.  A spokesperson said a joint investigation into the circumstances of his death would be carried out by detectives and the Health and Safety Executive. 

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A tanning salon owner has been jailed after a 15-year-old girl suffered life-changing burns which needed plastic surgery after using a sunbed.

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A County Durham quarry operator is facing trial later this year following a Health and Safety Executive (HSE) inquiry into a workplace injury accident.  Stonegrave Aggregates Ltd, which operates Aycliffe Quarry in Newton Aycliffe, is being prosecuted by the HSE for allegedly failing to ensure the safety of employees arising from the incident, on March 24, 2023, in which a worker was injured.

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A paddleboard business owner has been jailed for 10 years and six months for gross negligence manslaughter following the deaths of four people in 2021.  Nerys Lloyd, 39, from Aberavon, who was the owner and sole director of Salty Dog Co Ltd, was charged with the gross negligence manslaughter of Paul O’Dwyer, 42, Andrea Powell, 41, Morgan Rogers, 24, and Nicola Wheatley, 40, following their tragic deaths following the incident in Haverfordwest Town Weir on 30 October 2021.

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A road haulage company in Nuneaton has been fined £90,000 after a metal heat exchanger fell from its lorry killing a cyclist.  A Heavy Goods Vehicle (HGV), operated by JW Morley Transport Ltd, was driving down College Street, Nuneaton, on 18 June 2021 carrying four heat exchangers weighing over 10,000kg, when as it went round a bend, the load shifted in the vehicle causing one of the straps securing the load to snap.

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A social housing provider has been fined £140,000 following a prosecution by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE).  Stonewater Limited employed two men as estate assistants who worked at various sites near Tanyard Farm in Coventry.

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A waste company has been fined £250,000 after a man was run over on his first day at work. The 40-year-old new employee was picking waste at a site in Oldham when a moving shovel loader ran into him from behind.

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

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A BRADFORD builder has avoided jail after an asylum seeker earning £50 for a day’s work fell to his death.  Sarabjit Singh, 44, of Glenlee Road, Lidget Green, was found guilty of breaching Health and Safety regulations at Leeds Magistrates’ Court on March 5.    He was sentenced to six months imprisonment, suspended for 12 months.

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A London property developer has been fined £63,000 plus costs after Britain’s workplace regulator found multiple failures at a construction site in Dalston.  Nofax Enterprises Limited was investigated by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) following four visits to its site on Dalston Lane over a 13 month period between 2020 and 2021. The company was overseeing the construction of a four storey building on the site, containing nine flats and large basement to house a youth club.

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