Tag: Prosecutions
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Builder avoids jail after roof collapse injures three and destroys home
However, on the day itself, he instructed his workers to remove key supporting timbers and steels. This resulted in the collapse of the brick gable wall, striking the workers and destroying the first floor of the home, which was occupied at the time. View the original article and our Inspiration here
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Contractor fined after collapsing wall kills ‘full of life’ employee
A building company has been fined £56,775 after an employee was crushed to death when a 1.8m-high retaining wall collapsed on him. Gary Anstey, 57, from Bristol, was working for H Mealing & Sons Ltd at a school construction site in Bath when the incident happened on 19 March 2019. An investigation by the Health…
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Builder fined after boy’s skull fractured by falling pipe
A construction company and its director have been fined after a five-year-old child was injured by a falling cast-iron pipe. The incident happened on 20 July 2021 when Sage Homes Ltd was carrying out work on an extension to a house in Totton, near a local primary school. A cast-iron pipe fell onto a passing…
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Suspended sentence for joiner who failed to pay over £300,000 in taxes
A Bedfordshire joiner whose two companies failed to pay more than £300,000 in tax has been sentenced after ignoring a director disqualification. Robert Kurzawa, 45, was banned as a director for three years in 2017 after his company, RK UK Construction Ltd, went into liquidation owing more than £195,000 in tax. However, Kurzawa continued acting…
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Roofer fined for failing to provide edge protection that led to serious injury
Gary Smith of Watling Street, Dunstable, pleaded guilty to a breach of Regulation 4(1) of the Work at Height Regulations 2005. He was fined £2,125 and ordered to pay costs of £5,445 at a hearing at Luton & South Bedfordshire Magistrates’ Court on 29 July 2025. View the original article and our Inspiration here
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Tata Steel fined £1.5m after ‘basic’ H&S failures that led to contractor’s death
Tata Steel has been fined £1.5m following the death of a contractor at its Port Talbot steelworks plant on 25 September 2019. Forty-four-year-old Justin Day was working at the steel manufacturer’s site in South Wales when he was crushed to death by a piece of machinery. On the day of the accident, a hydraulic leak…
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Developer fined after 23-year-old crushed by faulty lift
A London property developer has been fined £40,000 after a member of the public was crushed by a faulty falling lift at a residential property. The 23-year-old man had returned to the flats on Cambridge Heath Road, east London, with a group of friends after a night out on 9 September 2019. When he and…
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Gas fitter jailed after doing botched job while suspended
A gas fitter from Norfolk has been jailed after carrying out unsafe gas work in a residential property while suspended from the Gas Safe Register. An investigation by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) found that 52-year-old Antony Clifton, from Wymondham, had fitted a cooker at the home in Drayton that left gas leaking from…
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Footage captures aftermath of house blast that led to builder’s prosecution
Footage taken by a member of the public shows the immediate aftermath of a gas explosion that left a worker with burns so serious he has been unable to work since. Barry Newman, 58, the sole trader of Foster Brother Builders, was given a suspended sentence after his failures led to the blast. Newman had…
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Demolition firm prosecuted after worker falls 6m through roof
Lawrie (Demolition) Ltd, of Rigifa, Cove, Aberdeen, pleaded guilty to breaching Regulation 4 of the Work at Height Regulations 2005 and Section 33(1)(c) of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974. It was fined £40,562.50 at Aberdeen Sheriff Court on 12 June 2025. View the original article and our Inspiration here