A North Yorkshire mining company has been fined £3.6 million and ordered to pay costs of £185,000 after two electricians suffered severe burns in separate incidents which occurred in 2016 and 2019. The HSE found deficiencies from the owner of the mine in risk assessment, planning of works, and shortfalls in providing warnings about which parts of the electrical systems the two electricians were working on remained live.

A South Yorkshire civil engineering company has been fined £600,000 after a seven-year-old boy died on a construction site.  HSE found that there was insufficient fencing in place to prevent unauthorised persons from accessing the site, a housing development adjacent to exiting properties, due to a combination of poor planning, management and monitoring of the site and its perimeter.

A midlands carpentry and joinery company has been fined £200,000 after a man cleaning office windows from an unsecured stillage on the forks of a fork-lift truck fell 3.5 metres to the ground. An investigation by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) found the company failed to identify that using a stillage to lift someone on the forks of a forklift truck, a method that they had used before, was unsafe.  There was a lack of training for employees on the dangers of working at height without the proper equipment and there were no systems of work or risk assessments in place.

A Wiltshire chemical company has been fined £40,000 following, in June 2019, a release of chlorine. The release resulted from the inadvertent discharge of an Intermediate Bulk Container (IBC) containing approximately 700 kg of concentrated sulphuric acid into a mixing vessel which already contained 1,600 litres of sodium hypochlorite solution. The large cloud of toxic gas permeated the factory and surrounding area. There was no clear evacuation plan for workers caught on-site, with several taken to hospital with breathing difficulties. A Health and Safety Executive (HSE) investigation found the incident happened because a dedicated mixing plant had not been brought back into service after maintenance work, and the company had failed to introduce effective records management for the temporary manual system.