One of the world's biggest oil and gas producers has been fined after health and safety breaches which would have led to an explosion.   Shell UK failed to properly maintain pipework on its Brent Charlie platform in the North Sea for seven years, as well as failing to mintain ventilation fans.

A manufacturer of wood-burning stoves on the Isle of Wight has been fined £200,000 after an employee had his lower leg amputated following crush injuries caused when heavy metal sheets fell on him.  The man was working for A J Wells & Sons Ltd in Newport, when the incident happened on 15 August 2023. He had been moving a trolley loaded with approximately 30 pieces of sheet metal, each weighing more than 20kg, when it toppled over and fell onto his legs. His lower right leg was later amputated as a result of the injuries he sustained.

A Northampton roofing company has been fined £16,650 after an employee suffered serious injuries when he fell through a skylight opening.  Ryan Robinson, 31, was working for Kingsley Roofing Contractors Limited to recover a flat roof of single-storey extension at a domestic property on Sywell Road in Northampton.

A conveyor systems manufacturer based in Swadlincote has been fined £16,000 after an 18-year-old employee broke his arm when he became entangled in a manual lathe while deburring with emery cloth.  The incident happened on 1 December 2023 at Isoma Limited’s factory at George Holmes Business Park, Swadlincote. The young employee was deburring by hand without using a protective appliance when his arm became caught in the rotating lathe.

A manufacturing company has been fined £80,000 after a visiting lorry driver sustained life-changing injuries when he fell from a trailer during loading operations at a site in County Durham.  

A wind farm management services company has been fined £80,000 after a worker was seriously injured by an electrical flashover.  Natural Power Services Limited had sent the then 38-year-old to carry out maintenance work in an electrical substation within the Tom Nan Clach Wind Farm, near Inverness on 23rd June 2020. His injuries resulted in him sustained life-changing injuries that have required multiple surgeries.

Sprinklers could be mandatory in old buildings converted to hotels in Scotland, if a new fire safety law - named in memory of two men killed in a major blaze - is passed.  The fire at Cameron House, on the banks of Loch Lomond, claimed the lives of London couple Simon Midgley and Richard Dyson on 18 December 2017.

The Building Safety Regulator will be transferred out of the Health and Safety Executive in January, the building safety minister has confirmed.  The Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) announced over the summer the regulator would have its functions moved away from the body and into a new executive non-departmental public body sponsored by the department.

On 10 December 2022, 51-year-old Miguel Galvao was working as a drainage engineer for utility and infrastructure company Lanes Group, water jetting sewer lines in Southall, London. As Mr Galvao was priming the jetting hose for the first job of the day, the end of the hose whipped up at high speed, striking him in the chin and face. Mr Galvao was rushed to hospital and placed in an induced coma. With doctors unable to do anything to help him, Mr Galvao’s family took the decision to switch off his life support on 27 December 2022. He died later that day. Lanes Group was subsequently fined £800,000.

A construction company has been fined after a worker fell from the roof of a barn under construction in Oswestry, suffering serious injuries, including fractured ribs and a fractured skull.  The man had been installing roof sheets for Dewi Williams when he stepped onto a recently fitted sheet and fell to the ground on 2 September 2023.