A north-east England transport and haulage company was fined £200,000 and ordered to pay costs of £15,322 after a worker died after falling from the rear of a shipping container. An investigation by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) found that although the company had various generic risk assessments and safe working method statements, it had not put in place the simple control measures to prevent or mitigate a fall from the rear of this container.  It also failed to carry out a suitable or sufficient risk assessment for this specific work activity. https://press.hse.gov.uk/2022/03/31/company-fined-after-worker-died-following-fall-from-shipping-container

An East Yorkshire chemical company was fined £480,000 and ordered to pay costs of £13,441 following an ignition of flammable vapours, which resulted in a worker suffering serious burns to his right arm and hand. The incident occurred during the manufacture of a batch of hairspray. An investigation by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) found that the extraction system used to remove vapours was not adequate to prevent a build-up of a flammable atmosphere. https://press.hse.gov.uk/2022/04/07/chemical-company-fined-after-worker-suffered-burns

A Yorkshire goat farming company has been fined £180,000 and ordered to pay £20,000 in costs after a farm worker was run over and fatally wounded. An investigation by the HSE found that the employee had stepped out from a door into the path of a reversing telehandler. The driver was unable to see the worker so could not take action, and she was struck by the vehicle. This incident could so easily have been avoided by simply segregating vehicles and pedestrians.

A Shetland fish processing firm was fined £80,000 after a worker died  following injuries sustained when she was run over, in 2018, by a forklift. An investigation found that no site-specific workplace transport risk assessment had been carried out and no control measures had been put in place to separate pedestrians and vehicles.  It was also found that the company had no effective arrangements for the management of health and safety and had failed to act on the advice of a health and safety consultant several years prior to the incident.