A scaffolding company has been up in court after a worker fractured his skull in a fall and lost his sight in one eye. Bristol Magistrates’ Court heard how an employee of RJ Scaffolding (Bristol) Ltd had to be put into an induced coma for two weeks after falling more than six metres from the…
Read articlePolice have charged a man after a worker died following an incident on a Springfield Lakes construction site earlier this year. A 24-year-old Yarrabilba man, Neil Edward Norris, was on Tuesday charged with one count of manslaughter following Workplace Health and Safety investigations. Just before 2pm on April 10, it will be alleged a man…
Read articleHealth and Safety report shows 45 people died in workplace incidents in 2016 Twenty people were killed in accidents on Irish farms last year, more than double the number of workplace fatalities in any other sector. The number of workplace fatalities in the agricultural sector is up from 18 recorded deaths in 2015, according to…
Read articleA Dorset based company has been fined £27,000 after a scaffold collapsed only narrowly missed a passer-by. Poole Magistrates’ Court heard how Swanage & Dorset Scaffolding & Roofing had been contracted to erect scaffolding at the industrial unit in Alder Hills Business Park, Wallisdown, Poole to provide edge protection for work to be carried out…
Read articleA Castlederg Sinn Féin councillor remains in hospital after suffering serious injuries in a workplace accident involving a forklift and metal cage. Kieran McGuire (40) from Aghyaran was transferred to an Intensive Care Unit at Altnagelvin hospital in Derry after undergoing surgery for a broken ankle and fibula last Thursday. His leg was also broken…
Read articleAs we strive to find ways to store vast amounts of data into smaller and smaller spaces, IBM has just managed to put 330TB into the palm of our hand. In collaboration with Sony Storage Media Solutions, IBM has managed to create a tiny storage cartridge with 330TB of capacity. To do so, it used…
Read articleMajor Rescue Operation to Recover Worker from Silo A Man has been rescued following a fall onto scaffolding at Irish Cement’s plant in Limerick. The worker, understood to be in his late 30s, is believed to have fallen around two metres from a ladder onto scaffolding while working on a large silo at the plant…
Read articleAn amusement park ride broke apart on the opening day of the Ohio State Fair in the US, hurling people through the air, leaving one man dead and injuring seven other people. Three of the injured were in a critical condition, authorities said. “The fair is about the best things in life and tonight with…
Read articleMore than a dozen passengers were escorted off the Oblivion rollercoaster at its highest point on Tuesday because of a “technical fault”. The incident at the Staffordshire theme park happened one month after a similar stoppage on the nearby Smiler rollercoaster, on which four people were badly injured in a crash two years ago. Staff…
Read articleFailure to maintain a storage tank has cost Yorkshire Water a £600,000 fine for a sewage leak. Yorkshire Water was prosecuted for polluting a Staithes watercourse with sewage that had leaked out from a poorly-maintained storage tank. The company was sentenced on 13th July at Leeds Crown Court, after admitting one charge of causing a…
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