A father-of-three was left paralysed from the chest down after falling through a ceiling at a house renovation in Derbyshire.  Chesterfield builder Andrew Clifford remained lying face down on the floor for around six hours before he was found by a delivery driver. He judged the time by hearing hourly news bulletins from his radio.

A company has been fined £80,000 after an employee sustained a fractured skull at its site in Glasgow.  In addition to a fractured skull, the worker sustained a broken clavicle, a ripped earlobe and haematomas down his right side, caused by being struck by a telehandler bucket while working at Grayshill Limited on 19 October 2022.

A construction company has been fined £215,000 after a roofer was thrown from a cherry picker when it was hit by a double decker bus in Glasgow.  The worker fell on a parked car and then on the pavement in the incident in Castlemilk on 4 February, 2022.  He was left with serious and permanent injuries.

A company has been fined after a crane collapsed at its site on Falmouth Docks, putting more than 250 people at risk.  Emergency services declared a major incident following the collapse at A&P Falmouth on 10 May 2017 with the surrounding area being evacuated and cordoned off.

  A CHESHIRE West farm owner has been fined thousands of pounds after a roofing contractor fell from a crate on a forklift truck and tragically died.    Denis Thornhill, 78 and the company which he is a director of, DS Thornhill (Rushton) Limited, were each responsible for health and safety failings in the moments which led to the death of 64-year-old Mark Young at Moss Hill Farm, Rushton, near Tarporley.

THIS WORLD Mental Health Day (10 October), the UK’s leading health and safety organisations are coming together to address poor mental health at work and are calling on the Government, employers and those responsible for workplace health and safety to tackle the issue.

MD Safety comment: This case high;ights the need to undertale Work Equiopment Risk Assessments (as required by PUWER)

A manufacturing company has been fined after an employee broke his arm while operating machinery at its site in Warwickshire.  Andrew Elson, from Rugby, suffered multiple fractures to the ulna and radius bones in his right arm while working at Screening Consultancy and Supplies Ltd on 25 November 2022.

Health and safety experts are calling for urgent action to tackle an epidemic of long working hours.  It follows a study by the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH) which suggested that one in two workers are putting in two extra hours without pay every week.

A company has been fined more than a quarter of a million pounds after a 62-year-old worker fell and died during the construction of a new university building in Birmingham.  The Health and Safety Executive (HSE), the national regulator for workplace safety, investigated the fall and subsequently prosecuted the infrastructure company Balfour Beatty, with the firm fined £285,000 on Monday.

Twelve-year-old Louis Watkiss died after an accident at the Snowdome at Tamworth on 24 September 2021.After an initial joint investigation with Staffordshire Police, HSE can now confirm Snowdome Limited has been charged with breaching section 3 of Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974.The case is listed for a first hearing at Telford Magistrates Court on 9 October 2024.