A major UK construction company has been fined £185,000 after an Oldham worker suffered life-threatening injuries when he was run over by a reversing truck. The Health and Safe...
Tate and Lyle Industries Ltd has been fined £270,000, with costs of £90,000, after the death of a contractor working on one of its ships. The Health and Safety Executive (H...
Two firms have been fined a total of £126,000 plus costs after the death of a workman at a hotel in Buckinghamshire. John Robinson of Milton Keynes died when he fell 100ft when scaffolding collaps...
A Fermanagh-based timber company has been fined £50,000 for a breach of health and safety which led to a workers death. In 2006, Michael Lukan was crushed inside a machine he was repairing at Balc...
SITA Metal Recycling, a Norfolk based company, has become the first company to be prosecuted for breaching the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Regulations SI 2006/3289...
A Nottinghamshire man caught by a hidden camera set up by the Environment Agency in March last year, pleaded guilty at Mansfield Magistrates' Court on 27 January 2010, to tw...
The owner of a Swindon-based company which sent "toxic" waste to Brazil has been ordered to pay a shipping firm more than £730,000 in compensation.
Containers sent by Worldwide Biorecyclabl...
A cement factory in Flintshire has admitted breaches in legislation which would potentially have caused a cancer risk. Castle Cement Ltd admitted four charges relating to dust and noise at Padeswo...
Speaking during an Assembly Environment Committee meeting this month, the SDLP's John Dallat has said that there are no figures available for the collection of fines for illegal waste in Northern I...
A Leeds bottle manufacturer was this month fined a total of £13,173 by Leeds Magistrates' Court after a worker sustained serious injuries when he plunged two metres onto a concrete floor. Allied G...
There has been a fatal accident this month at a sewage treatment works near Ballymena. The victim, who is believed to be in his 40s, died in the incident at the Northern Ireland Water Facility on...
Two men who allowed their land in Northern Ireland to be used to dump illegal waste from the Republic have been hit with hard penalties under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002. Under the Act, Turloug...
The trial of Cotswold Geotechnical Holdings, the first company charged under the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007, has been adjourned until October 201...
Troubled global steelmaker Corus has been fined £100,000 after an overloaded mobile crane overturned.
On 4 September 2008, a crane operator was instructed to use a mobile crane to load steel...
A Wales construction company has been fined after one of its employees had his head crushed at a site in Gloucestershire. Macob Administration Limited, based in Bridgend, was charged by the
