A local authority has been sentenced after a worker lost his finger while operating a machine.  Adi Soday, a technician at The Forest School in Horsham, lost his right index finger when it was sliced off by a circular bench saw on 13 June 2022.

A manufacturer of military explosives has been fined £670,000 after an employee was killed and another seriously injured in an explosion at its factory near Salisbury.  The two men were working on the production of MTV – an explosive substance used in military flares – at the premises of Chemring Countermeasures Limited in High Post on 10 August 2018. They were cleaning a vessel used in the production and were removing residual explosive material in preparation for the next day’s shift.

MORE PEOPLE are being killed at work now after suffering a fall from height than in the last 17 years, according to the latest figures released by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE).  The Access Industry Forum (AIF), who represent the principal work at heighttrade associations and federations, reports that just-released HSE statistics on work-related fatal injuries show that shockingly, 50 workers died due to a fall from height in 2023/24 in Great Britain – an increase of 22% from 2022/23, which saw 41 deaths1.

An industrial door firm has been fined £165,000 after it admitted safety failings that led to the death of an employee.  Thirty-three-year-old Mark Mathers was strangled by his own hoodie when it became trapped in the mechanics of a roller door at Specialist Cars Volkswagen in Aberdeen. He died three days later in hospital.

Two companies have been fined after a teenage worker was exposed to asbestos.  The 16-year-old had been working for P Turnbull Joinery and Building Services Ltd on an outbuilding of a domestic property after the firm had been hired by Alt Berg Holding Limited to refurbish the property in Richmond, North Yorkshire.

A charitable trust has been fined after a volunteer lost his life during restoration work on the Wilts and Berks Canal.  Peter Konitzer was fatally crushed when a section of a wall collapsed onto him in an excavation at Pewsham locks on 24 August 2016.

A company in Berkshire has been fined £30,000 after a father-of-four was electrocuted.  Levi Alleyne (known as ‘Chunky’) lost his life while delivering crushed concrete at a construction site on Swallowfield Road, Reading, on 16 November 2020.

Prosecutors and police in Milan have been investigating whether workers have been exploited in supply chains linked to a dozen fashion brands as an extension of a long-standing probe into workers allegedly operating under illegal conditions.   A court in the Italian fashion capital appointed a special commissioner last week (10 June) to judicially administer an Italian-based subsidiary of French fashion giant Christian Dior, which is owned by French luxury giant LVMH, for a year.

A man has been given a suspended sentence after he carried out unsafe work on an extension to his own home in Manchester.  Abdul Rehman engaged operatives to help him build an extension to the property on Kings Crescent in Old Trafford – which was in addition to replacing the roof on the existing semi-detached house.

The flats near Cardinal Park were found to be unsafe and in breach of fire safety regulations.  Fire service bosses say they have sent a “clear message” to those who put “lives at risk” after a property firm was found to have endangered residents of flats.