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School fined £30,000 after mountain rescue team called to evacuate children
8th March 2022
A group of schoolchildren had to be rescued by Keswick Mountain Rescue Team (KMRT) from Helvellyn after becoming stranded in winter conditions. Their school has been sentenced for its failures to adequately manage the risks posed by the trip.
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Farmer sentenced after walker killed by cattle
8th March 2022
Christopher Paul Sharpe, partner in J H Sharp and Son, has been sentenced for safety breaches after an 83-year-old man was fatally attacked by cattle.
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Pandemic medical waste poses global health risk
8th March 2022
COVID-19 has created huge amounts of extra medical waste globally including in the region of 140 million test kits, 731,000 litres of chemical waste, and 144,000 tonnes of waste from eight billion vaccinations, according to a World Health Organisation (WHO) report.
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Company fined £200,000 after a worker fell from height when platform collapsed
8th March 2022
A North-East civil engineering company has been sentenced following a worker suffering life threatening injuries after falling 15 metres when a platform he was working on unexpectedly collapsed.
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Care home company fined £640k after resident choked to death
1st February 2022
HC-One Limited has been fined following an incident when a resident choked to death on a jam doughnut.
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