A company and its operations manager have both been fined after a man fell to his death through a roof at its site in Dudley.  Maciej Rozanski, who was 42, had been working to remove a redundant steel cleaning machine from the company’s Sovereign Works site on Deepdale Lane, on 29 June 2018. However, during the work, Mr Rozanski stepped onto a fragile roof and fell more than 20 feet to the floor below. He suffered serious injuries and was pronounced dead at the scene.

The owners of a Camberwell bakery have been prosecuted for breaching health and safety regulations.  The case, brought by Southwark council against Spice N Nice, was heard at Croydon Magistrates’ Court on March 3, culminating in the defendants, Mark Scott and Dezrene Judith Clarke, pleading guilty to breaches to the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974.

As part of its attempts to reduce the regulatory burden on UK business, the government has announced a review of older prescriptive health & safety legislation, specifically the Lifting Operations & Lifting Equipment Regulations (LOLER) 1998 and the Pressure Systems Safety Regulations 2000.  The Health & Safety Executive (HSE) plans a consultation process to identify and remove what might be considered to be unnecessary regulatory burdens and identify potential changes to legislation to reflect technological advances and reliability of work equipment.

A hydraulics company, with locations throughout the UK, has been fined after an employee became trapped in a machine that he was working on at a customer’s premises in Plymouth.  David Lawrence, a 63-year-old engineer, was undertaking fault finding on a laser cutting machine for Pearson Hydraulics Ltd, on 26 July 2023, when the cutting bed of the machine dropped and trapped both of his legs. After spending five weeks in hospital, Mr Lawrence had to have his right leg amputated above the knee. Despite extensive surgery to save his left leg, Mr Lawrence faces the possibility of having it amputated in the future.

A renovation company in South Wales has been sentenced after defying enforcement notices from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE).  Inspectors say Greenlife Property Developments Ltd failed to heed their warnings about the dangers posed to workers by a two-and-a-half metre deep excavation of the entire back garden of a house in Pit Place, Cwmbach, Aberdare.

The company in question, A.I.M Access Solutions Ltd has been fined £30,000 for its failure to assemble safe scaffolding following an investigation by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE).  

NETWORK RAIL has been fined £3.4m and ordered to pay costs of £43,096 after pleading guilty to an offence under the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974, which followed an investigation and prosecution by industry regulator the Office of Rail and Road (ORR).  The incident occurred on 9 February 2021 at Surbiton when Tyler Robert Byrne, a Network Rail track worker, was struck by a passenger train, and fatally injured. Mr. Byrne was a member of a four-person group of track workers, undertaking inspections at the location while trains were running in both directions. There was no protection and an inadequate warning system in place, which exposed all members of the working party to the risk of being struck by a train in the course of their work.

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

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.

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.