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Carlsberg fined £3m following 2016 ammonia gas leak
7th July 2022
Carlsberg has been fined £3 million after a contractor died and another was seriously injured following an ammonia gas leak at Carlsberg’s site in Northampton.
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Shepherd’s Bush high-rise fire caused by e-bike prompts safety warning from firefighters
7th July 2022
London Fire Brigade have issued an urgent e-bike safety warning following a serious blaze at a block of flats in Shepherd’s Bush.
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Workplace fatality figures published by HSE
7th July 2022
123 workers were killed in work-related accidents in Great Britain in the last year, according to figures published by the HSE.
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Parcel company fined after employee crushed to death
7th July 2022
Delivery firm Hermes has been fined £850,000 after a man was crushed to death at one of the company’s depots.
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Rail company fined £550,000 after regulator finds health and safety failings
7th June 2022
Railway infrastructure company, VolkerRail Ltd. has been fined £550,000 after pleading guilty to an offence under the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 after an investigation and prosecution by industry regulator the Office of Rail and Road (ORR). VolkerRail Ltd. was found to have failed to prevent danger to workers undertaking excavation work beside the railway.
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