A gas distribution company was fined £5 Million and ordered to pay costs of £91,487. for safety breaches after a fire and gas explosion at residential premises resulted in the death of the homeowner. An investigation by the Health and Safety Executive found that the source of the gas escape was a fractured six-inch cast iron main running under the road to the front of the property. The investigation found that the main did not appear on the company’s network drawings.

A contractor and a water management company were fined a total of £395,000 with combined costs of £34,000 after a worker sustained an open compound fracture of his tibia and fibula when he was hit by a 1.5 tonne water valve.  A Health and Safety Executive (HSE) investigation found that both companies had failed to risk assess the work and also the additional hazards introduced by a change in the scope of work.  https://press.hse.gov.uk/2022/01/06/companies-fined-after-employee-fractures-leg-at-reservoir

A construction company was fined £400,000 with £5,300 costs after a groundworker received burns having struck a 415v power cable whilst carrying out excavation work.   An Investigation by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) found that site plans for buried cables had not been consulted and a cable avoidance tool had not been used to locate buried services in advance of carrying out the work. In addition, there was a lack of properly trained labour and supervision in place for the excavation works. One of the directors was sentenced to fourteen months imprisonment, suspended for two years, and 150 hours of community service. https://press.hse.gov.uk/2021/12/22/construction-company-and-its-groundworks-contractor-sentenced