An Essex maritime terminal operator was fined £1.8 million and ordered to pay costs of £14,328 after a worker suffered serious injury, in June 2014, when his arm became wrapped around a powered capstan, while mooring an ocean-going vessel. The HSE investigation found that the defendant failed to suitably identify and control risk associated with the use of powered capstans at the port. Consequently, the system of work adopted was unsafe. Arrangements for instruction, training and supervision of workers using this equipment were inadequate, as were those for audit and monitoring of safety. Also taken into account by the court was the fact that, the defendant failed to suitably heed warnings raised by its workers prior to the incident.

A Borough Council was fined £100,000 with £20,000 costs following the death of a pensioner resulting from exposure to legionella. HSE stated that failure of arrangements to control and manage potential risks from legionella in the care home in question were systemic and had continued over a period of time.

A Runcorn haulage firm has been fined £90,000 and ordered to pay £67,500 in prosecution costs after an employee was crushed to death, in January 2011, by a runaway lorry. The HSE investigation found that the deceased did not normally drive articulated vehicles, had not received training on coupling lorries, and there was no written procedure for the work

A Cheshire construction company has been fined £97,500 with £300,000 costs following an accident in 2011 at a site in Wimslow when an employee sustained fatal crush injuries when a pack of bricks fell on him. An HSE investigation found that the storage of materials was poorly organised and pallets used to store and move bricks around the site were also in poor condition.