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.

A chemical company has been fined £100,000 after one of its workers was permanently scarred from burns from a steam hose at a site in Motherwell.  A 23-year-old was burnt across his back and other areas of his body as he attempted to clean a process water tank on 23 October 2019. At the time he had been working for Dundas Chemical Company (Mosspark) Limited at its site at Omoa Works in Newarthill for around two years.

David Bottomley, 53, and his son, Clayton, were working at the 21st floor at the Unity Building when the tragedy happened  Fraudulent safety certificates had been provided for a building site platform that collapsed and caused a father and son to fall to their deaths, a court has heard.