Companies fined for double fish farm deaths
Two companies have been fined a total of £640,000 following the death of two fish farm workers on a barge moored at a salmon farm on Loch Creran, Argyll & Bute. Scottish Sea Farms worker, Campbell Files and engineer Arthur Raikes – employed by Logan Inglis Limited, Cumbernauld – were fixing a hydraulic crane on […]
Increase in workplace fatalities
New official statistics have been published showing an increase in the number of workers killed in Britain last year. The Health and Safety Executive has released provisional data for the year April 2010 to March 2011, which shows the number of workers killed was 171, an increase on the previous year when 147 died – […]
