A Leeds Waste management company was fined £760,000 and ordered to pay costs of £16,170 after workers suffered multiple fractures. A metal grating failed as an employee walked over it. He fell four metres and sustained a double break to the left leg, a break to the right leg and a broken ankle. An agency worker came to assist him, but he also fell through the missing floor panel and sustained a dislocated and fractured shoulder. https://press.hse.gov.uk/2021/10/26/waste-management-company-fined-after-workers-suffered-multiple-fractures

A wind farm operator and a security company have been fined a total of £870,000 following an incident where a  guard died after being found lying face down and hypothermic, in deep snow, at a remote hillside in Ayrshire. The HSE investigation into the fatality found that when preparing their emergency weather plan the security company had failed to consider situations when nobody from the operating company would be present at the site. The operating company had failed to ensure there was a back-up generator at either of the guard’s locations to provide for heating and lighting should the main generator fail, despite this having occurred on several occasions previously. In addition the security company failed ensure that the deceased or his colleague had a reliable means of calling for help.  https://press.hse.gov.uk/2021/11/17/contractor-and-security-company-fined-after-security-guard-dies-of-hypothermia-at-windfarm

A North Wales quarrying company was fined £300.000 after a blasting operation put workers at risk.  An investigation by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) found that flyrock from the blasting operation, had landed approximately 270m away, punctured the roof of an occupied work shed, and put a hole in the outside pane of the occupied manager’s office skylight window.  HSE found that there were poor stemming practices, the written specification was prepared after the firing of the blast, and an inadequate danger zone was in place.

An oil company has been fined £500,000 following liquid petroleum gas leak in November 2015. The leak went undetected for around four hours before being discovered by an employee cycling home at the end of his shift. It took a further hour to establish the source of the leak with on-site emergency personnel having to enter the area to reset the valve.  An investigation by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) found that the leak occurred because LPG was put through the pipe work at too a high a pressure for the valve, there was no process in place to detect the discrepancy in the flow in the pipe and that the company had failed to take all measures necessary to prevent a major incident. https://press.hse.gov.uk/2021/12/07/oil-company-fined-following-liquid-petroleum-gas-leak