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.

An investigation has been launched after a council-contracted worker reportedly fell off the roof of a former school. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) confirmed to the ECHO it is investigating an incident involving a worker falling from the top of the Hamilton Building on Conway Street, Birkenhead. The incident took place on February 4.

Buckinghamshire Council has successfully prosecuted a garden furniture business whose health and safety failings led to an employee suffering serious head injuries after falling from an unguarded mezzanine floor.  Garden Furniture Global Ltd pleaded guilty to the charge of failing to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, the health, safety and welfare of its employees, when the case   came before the District Judge at High Wycombe Magistrates Court on Friday 7 February 2025.

Mortgage lenders are withdrawing offers to homebuyers with fire safety certificates issued by Adam Kiziak's company, Tri Fire.  An expert has been accused of signing off fire safety certificates for flats in high-rise blocks using the credentials and signature of another engineer without permission, the BBC has been told.

On May 13, 2020, father-of-three Jack Stevens, 28, who was driving a BMW, died when a strip of timber came loose from a Travis Perkins vehicle on the A26 after it left the company's Newhaven depot.  The court heard how only a single strap was used on the load which did not adequately secure it, and the lashing was insufficient.