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.

In recent inspections by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), 95% of employers failed to verify whether workers wearing hearing protection could still detect vital warning signals, such as fire alarms and vehicle reversing alerts.  Although one in four workplaces had noise levels requiring mandatory hearing protection, the HSE inspections revealed “concerning gaps” in implementation.

An Ipswich manufacturer has been issued with an immediate prohibition notice by the national health and safety regulator.    Orwell Pine Limited, in 497-499 Wherstead Road, has been issued with the notice after they failed to provide adequate guarding on dangerous machinery.

A worker who died after falling about 30ft (9m) into an empty silo at a factory will be 'deeply missed' by his colleagues, the company he worked for has said.  The 43-year-old died at the scene of the 'industrial incident' at Dugdale Nutrition on Woodend Avenue in the Speke area of Liverpool on Monday, Merseyside Police said.

The investigation into the death of George Gilbey is now being led by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE).  George, 40, was working in Shoeburyness, Essex on 27 March 2024, when he fell to his death.  The involvement of Essex Police has now concluded. HSE will now lead the criminal investigation.