Adam Evans was landlord of property and failed to get safety checks on gas boiler for eight years His tenant was a woman who lived in the property with her five children Annual gas safety checks are a legal duty A landlord has been sentenced after failing to ensure gas safety checks were carried out

World Mental Health Day: Listen, identify and act on work-related stress  HSE urges employers to listen to workers, identify stress risks and take action this World Mental Health Day.  An estimated 964,000 workers are suffering from work-related stress, depression or anxiety, resulting in 22.1 million working days lost.  HSE’s Working Minds campaign offers free tools,

Employee lost part of his right thumb and suffered a crush injury to his hand during a manual handling task, just days after a near-identical incident HSE investigation found employee had not been given clear instructions on how to carry out task safely Worker was amateur boxer before hand injury – describing hobby as his

Connor Lambert, a trainee painter, was electrocuted while working in Chester The 24-year-old and his partner were expecting their first child His step dad has been sentenced for failing to properly plan for the work A sole trader has been sentenced after his stepson was fatally electrocuted while working on a domestic property in Chester.

Woman suffered burns to hands, face and legs when disposing of pyrotechnic waste at site in Lincolnshire GMK Limited had not risk assessed the work or provided her with suitable PPE HSE investigation also found company was in breach of its explosive licence One of the country’s leading distributors of firearms for sports shooting and

59-year-old father of two was killed when he fell from first floor The work had not been properly planned or measures put in place Falls from height remain leading cause of fatalities in construction industry An Oxfordshire-based construction company has been fined £120,000 after a carpenter died when he fell through an unsafe first floor

Worker died from crush injuries after being drawn into machinery through a gap in fixed guarding. Company fined and ordered to pay contribution to costs after pleading guilty to breaching PUWER 1998. Gill Aggregates Limited, which operates a site in Dagenham, East London, has been fined £24,000 after one of its workers was drawn into

74-year-old Grace Mecaley killed after being struck by a bus while using a pedestrian crossing TfL failed to properly manage risks to pedestrians at Walthamstow Bus Station Similar collision in 2022 and five near misses recorded in the two days before Grace’s death Transport for London (TfL) has been convicted and fined £2 million after

Mick Ferris, a coach driver on his break, was killed by a falling window pane from the 26th floor of the luxury Corniche development in London The Companies failed to effectively act after a near-miss one year earlier, when a window fell from the same penthouses and just missed workers. HSE investigation found the companies

Father-of-one Joseph Tuck sustained serious spinal injuries that prevented him returning to a physical job. Simple measures to prevent a fall, including securing the stairwell cover or installing edge protection, were not in place. HSE identified multiple failures in the management of work at height. A domestic house builder in Sowerby Bridge was fined after