Food Manufacturing Company Fined £1.8 Million After Two Workers Fall From Height A Yorkshire based food manufacturer has been sentenced today for health and safety failures in a 2016 incident in which two workers suffered serious injuries after falling through a rooflight during routine roof maintenance. The investigation, led by the Health and Safety Executive

Tragic death of a five year old girl   A five year old girl was in the lift at her family’s home and put her head through a damaged vision panel. The lift started moving upwards, trapping her between the lift and the ground floor ceiling. This resulted in fatal neck and back injuries. The

A British retailer fined £337k after customer falls through a trapdoor A 64-year-old woman was browsing birthday cards when she fell three metres through an open trapdoor into the store’s basement. A nearby shop employee tried to grab the woman as she was falling, but did not manage to stop her. This resulted in multiple

Data breach: airport fined for lost USB memory stick An airport was fined £120,000 after an employee lost a USB memory stick containing sensitive personal information. A member of the public found the memory stick on the street and viewed the files on a library computer. The contents on the USB included the times guards

£500k fine following the death of an employee A group of employees at a hot metal forging company were working on a task hammering pieces of hard alloy. One of the workers was working on a small but hard piece of metal. Because of the size of the metal, he had to kneel close to

Supermarket legally responsible for employee data leak Morrisons was found responsible for leaking thousands of employees’ data. The data was posted online by former senior internal auditor, Andrew Skelton. He posted information such as names, addresses, bank accounts and salaries, and risked Morrisons’ current employees to identity theft and financial loss. The reason for stealing