An international firm has been fined more than £700,000 after two of its employees died in 2004 following an argon gas leak. The workers collapsed after the gas leaked from a large pressure vessel...
Drinks importer the Red Bull Company Limited has been handed a record fine of £261,278 for packaging waste offences. The London-based company pleaded guilty this month at Southwark Crown Court to...
Four men have been arrested this month after fuel laundering plants costing the Government £3.5 million a year in lost tax were dismantled in Northern Ireland.
Nine premises were raided in C...
Italy has warned of an ecological disaster as they battle to contain an oil spill that reached the Po river. Milan regional officials said the cause was almost certainly sabotage at a former refin...
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...
