Firm fined over cooling tower drowning
A maintenance contractor must pay a total of £155,000 after a man fell into a water filled sump at a North Wales power station and drowned. Michael Benn, 37, from Glenrothes, Fife was one of a team of three working to remove sludge and debris from part of a cooling tower at Connah’s Quay Power […]
Call for reduction in workplace dust level limits
The TUC is calling for urgent action to reduce dust levels in the workplace, a hazard which is responsible for thousands of deaths in the UK every year. The TUC publication says that there is now clear scientific evidence which suggests that the current UK limits for inhalable and respirable dust should be much lower. […]
Glasgow demolition worker fatally injured
Whiteinch Demolition Limited, a Glasgow demolition contractor, has been fined after a worker was killed when a weight from a face shovel machine fell on him. On 12 May 2008 Bernard McCarroll, aged 68 years from Croy, was dismantling a hydraulic excavator at the company’s yard in Glasgow by the process known as burning, using […]
Stewardess sues BA after injury at work
An air hostess is suing her employer, British Airways, after she was hit on the head by a falling ice canister while at work, reports the London Evening Standard. The 41-year old was fetching a drink for a passenger from the rear galley of the plane when the incident took place in 2008. The injury […]
