A dental practice in Sheffield has been prosecuted and fined £18,500 and ordered to pay costs of over £70,000 after one of its receptionists suffered a fall at work through a sky light, suffering serious personal injury as a result. Catherine Scarborough, 40, was working at the Blyde Road based Firvale Dental Practice in the South Yorkshire city when the … Read
Dog owners who allow their pet to cause personal injury will now face tougher sentences in a move welcomed by the Liverpool Echo’s Bite Back campaign. The Sentencing Council has published new guidelines that will allow judges to impose a jail term of 18 months for the owner of a dog who causes personal injury when dangerously of control. Anyone … Read
Swindon company, Roberts and Prowse has been fined £5,000 after an apprentice electrician suffered serious back injuries from falls that could have been prevented had adequate safety procedures been put in place. Richard O’Connor, who was 18 years old at the time of the workplace accident, fell through a ceiling while working in a loft space above Swindon youth centre … Read
A Northamptonshire construction company has been fined £10,000 after a self-employed ground worker became the latest statistic for accidents in the workplace, breaking his foot after a six-tonne dumper ran over it. Ross Smith, from March in Cambridgeshire, was part of a project building a roadway as part of a construction site in Lincoln on 11 March 2011 when the … Read
A roofer from Aberdeenshire has suffered serious fall from height injuries after a workplace accident on a flat roof in Strathdon. Alister McNeilly, 26, was working alongside a colleague on behalf of Donside Slating on 10 November 2010, to fix a flat roof. He was throwing lead cut-offs from the roof to the ground below when he lost his balance … Read
A report by the Government into the PIP implant scandal has concluded that lessons need to be learned by both the Department of Health and the Healthcare Products Regulatory Authority (MHRA). Health Minister Lord Howe stated that the MHRA had acted ‘appropriately’ both before and after the scandal broke, but said that communication could have been improved to ensure that … Read
A man crushed to death at a recycling firm in Newport, South Wales, could have been saved from his fate should the proper safety measures have been put in place by the company he worked for. 56 year old Norman Mayne, became trapped between a skip and a container on site at Amber Services Ltd at Dyffryn Business Park on … Read
Hundreds of women in Merseyside affected by the faulty PIP implants have been referred to the NHS after they were unable to receive help from their private clinics. The Government has stated that the NHS would step in when private clinics refused to help, or were no longer in business and the Liverpool Echo has revealed how NHS clinics on … Read
A woman from the Swansea area is making a compensation claim worth £300,000 against a bus driver and the company he worked for, Briggs Coaches, after an accident on the bus he was driving left her suffering severe head injuries. Natasha Flockhart, 20, from the Hafod area of Swansea, fell through the open doors of a minibus in June 2008 … Read
The landlord involved in a fatal accident at work during a roof replacement on one of his properties, has been fined £4,000. Mr Jagdev Singh Bal, was contacted by his letting agency to inform him of a wet ceiling in an upstairs bathroom of his property on Upton Road in Hounslow. He arranged for Sarabjit Singh Sanghera to conduct the … Read
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