A railway maintenance company was fined £550,000 after an incident, in 2014, when a wall of a trench collapsed, burying a worker. The worker suffered serious injuries including a broken pelvis and several broken ribs and is still in pain and unable to work.  At the time of the collapse, the excavation was approximately two metres deep and had been constructed without any support to the sides. The investigation found that the company had decided not to use temporary works (such as trench supports) to shore up the excavation despite evidence of unstable ground conditions.  It was also found that the company had not adequately briefed its construction team on how to complete tasks and was not following its own methods.

A west country cheese maker has been fined £1,500,000 having been found guilty of a number of offenses. These included releasing a harmful biocide into the adjacent river which killed fish for over a two kilometres, coating the river with a noxious black sludge for five kilometres, consistently exceeding emission limits over a five year to 2021, repeatedly generating foul odours which affected local residents and failing to report significant events to the Environment Agency on seven separate occasions.    https://www.gov.uk/government/news/dairy-crest-given-record-fine-for-davidstow-environmental-offences

A Northamptonshire brewing company was fined £3 Million following an ammonia gas leak which occurred in 2016. Birmingham Crown Court heard that twenty people were exposed to ammonia, and one person died, following a large, uncontrolled leak during the removal of a compressor from a refrigeration system.  It was several days before the leak was contained and gas levels dropped to a safe level. https://press.hse.gov.uk/2022/06/28/carlsberg-fined-3m-following-2016-ammonia-gas-leak

A retail company and an electrical contracting company have been fined a total of just over one million pounds after an electrician suffered serious burns when he was caught in an explosion at a warehouse in Liverpool.  An HSE investigation found that the victim had been attempting to connect a generator to a low voltage supply to allow core site functions to continue to operate whilst high voltage maintenance was being undertaken. This work was complex involving several contractors and required co-ordination of different working parties with specific time limited requirements. The investigation found that there had been was insufficient planning between parties beforehand, including management responsibilities, coordination of work and exchange of relevant documentation.