Phillip Affleck – a building contractor from Cheshire – has been found guilty of serious health and safety breaches, in addition to failing to provide sufficient welfare facilities for his workers at a building site.
Health and safety failings result in scaffolder being given suspended prison sentences
Greg Pearson – a 33-year-old scaffolder trading as Pearsons Scaffolding – has been fined for allowing unsafe work at height in London.
Recycling company sentenced after health and safety failings result in worker’s death
Gwynn Davies-McTiffin Ltd – a waste recycling firm based in West Yorkshire – has been fined after pleading guilty to failing to rectify health and safety issues that resulted in the death of an employee.
Food manufacturing firm fined £60,000 after worker was crushed
An Atherstone food production firm – The Sandwich Factory Holdings Ltd – has been fined £60,000 and must cover costs of £57,790 after an agency worker was crushed between a forklift truck and a lorry at its factory.
Worker’s death at a Devon paper mill results in employer fine
DS Smith Paper Ltd – a paper firm based in London – has been fined £400,000 after one of its employees sustained fatal injuries at its paper mill in Devon, after getting trapped in machinery that had no safety guards in place.