A company in the entertainment industry has been fined £16,000 following the death of a worker.  Russell Bowry, a self-employed rigger, was working at ELP Broadcast and Events Ltd’s Cardington Hangar Studios in Bedfordshire when he fell from height on 13 March 2018.

A crane operator has rescued a worker from a roof close to a burning building.  Firefighters were called to the Station Hill development in Reading, which has since been cordoned off, at 11:40 GMT.  Video footage from social media shows a person being lifted by a crane from the roof of a building, prompting applause from a crowd below.

MD Safety comment:  The use of seat belts in FLTs and other operating plant is essential to prevent the operator exiting the vehicle if it overturns.  Their use has to be enforced.  Had they been in this unfortunate case the outcome would have been different.

The mother of a man who was killed when the forklift truck he was driving overturned says she still feels angry as he ‘simply went to work and didn’t come home.’  Jamie Anderson was killed on 4 June 2019, when the forklift truck he was operating overturned at a depot in Newark.

A food company has admitted failures that led to one of its workers being strangled on a machine that makes carrot batons.  Remigiusz Cyrek was choked unconscious after being dragged into the machine and trapped by a giant roller.

Two men working on a residential tower under construction in London were fortunate to escape death when a defective cradle they were in fell about 90 feet.  

It’ll soon be International Men’s Day (Sunday 19 November) which this year comes with the theme, ‘Zero male suicide’. Statistics show that more men die by suicide than any other gender identity. So, writes Vikki Wealands, Chair of the IOSH Construction group, we have to keep talking about it and, even more importantly, do everything we can to help.

An operations manager at a funfair company has been jailed for six months and disqualified as a director for five years after a three-year-old girl died on a Norfolk beach. The funfair company he was working for has been fined £20,000.

A manufacturer of shopping trolleys has been fined after two men fell approximately three metres when a metal cage they were dismantling collapsed beneath them.  On 12th May 2018, two employees at Wanzl Limited were taking apart a large metal cage as part of an ongoing programme of improvement works at Prologis Park in Coventry.

MD Safety comment:  This unfortuante case highlights the dangeres of using mobile phones in any capacity when driving.  An enforced policy is essential.

A tractor driver who was looking at Snapchat before he crashed into a cyclist and killed her has been jailed.  Helen Wickham, 53, and her son, 19, were struck by the tractor towing a field roller as they were cycling along Holmes Chapel Road in Brereton Heath, Cheshire on 27 April 2020.

  A building firm has been fined £75,000 after health and safety breaches led to the “tragic death” of a Lowestoft man who was crushed while installing fridges.    Barry Challen, 50, died after suffering critical injuries when a fridge unit fell on him while he and colleagues were moving it at a Co-op store on the island of Guernsey in May 2018.