A building company and its director have been fined a total of £30,000 after a worker fell nearly thirty feet from scaffolding at a building site in Llanfairfechan, sustaining severe injuries.
JBB Homes Ltd of St. Petersgate, Stockport in Cheshire - which has subsequently gone into liquidation - pleaded guilty to breaching Section 2(1) of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974. It was fined £20,000 and ordered to pay costs of £10,835.
A shop fitting company has been fined after five workers were exposed to potentially deadly asbestos fibres at the Arndale Centre in Manchester.
Eastern Regional Shopfitters Ltd was prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) after it ignored a report which stated asbestos was present in a shop it was working on.
A North Lincolnshire ship breaking company put its workers and others at risk of exposure to asbestos containing materials, a court heard.
Marine reclamation company Acetech Construction Limited, purchased a Polish former fishing vessel "The Patricia III" in 2007 for dismantling and selling on as scrap. The ship, built in the 1970s, had been lying unused at Grimsby Dock for around three years.
Body shop workers are being encouraged to do more to protect themselves when paint spraying, as new research suggests that some are still putting themselves at risk of developing asthma.
A report by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) into the use of two-pack paints containing isocyanates has identified that, while practices have improved greatly in recent years, there are still a number of areas of concern.
Mortgage lending to home buyers picked up again in June, the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) says.
Its figures showed that there were 52,000 new loans granted to home buyers, 19% more than in May and up 14% on the same month a year ago.
The CML said activity was "still on an upward trajectory" and described the rise in June as "significant".
However, the lenders' organisation said it was still cautious about the prospects for the coming months.
Drug giant AstraZeneca is to pay $198m to settle 17,500 US personal injury claims related to its schizophrenia and bipolar disorder drug Seroquel.
Seroquel was launched in 1997 and has been one of the firm's top earners. It had worldwide sales of $4.9bn in 2009, accounting for 15% of group revenue.
Thousands have sued the firm in US courts, claiming the anti-psychotic drug caused weight gain and diabetes.
The average sum of $11,300 per claim is less than some past medical payouts.
Thousands of workers suffering from asbestos-related diseases may be eligible for £5,000 grants as annouced by the Ministry of Justice today.
Despite Law Lords ruling, unchanged during the Labour Government, preventing sufferers of pleural plaques from claiming compensation, payments of £5,000 will be available to people already in the process of a legal claim for compensation.
This could affect up to 6,000 people.
The scheme opens on Tuesday and sufferers in England and Wales have until August 1, 2011 to lodge a claim.
UK house prices have continued to stabilise, according to the latest report from the Halifax.
Prices rose 0.6% in July, the Halifax said, reversing a fall seen in June, but values have changed little since the start of the year.
The annual house price inflation rate fell from 6.3% to 4.9%, with the average property now costing £167,425.
The owner of a Cornish vineyard died after a delivery of empty wine bottles crashed onto him when they fell from the tail lift of a lorry he was helping to unload.
Gregory Distribution Ltd of North Park, North Tawton was fined £200,000 with £16,993 costs at Truro Crown Court today (4 August) following a prosecution by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE).
One of the UK's leading food manufacturers was today (30 July) fined £10,000 after a worker had two fingers sliced off in one of its mixing machines.
McVities manufacturer United Biscuits (UK) Ltd, was prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) after an investigation into the incident on 9 April 2009 at a cake baking site in Halifax.
Halifax Magistrates court heard how an employee, who asked not to be named, lost two fingers on her right hand when she attempted to clear a blockage in an industrial sized mixer, used to combine ingredients for flapjacks.