1103BRN.pdf (831.31 kb) Calsonic Kanei UK Limited fined £400,000 after death Defendant Calsonic Kanei UK Limited Reported 18 March 2011 Offence S2 & 3 HSWA Court Swansea Crown Court Penalty Fine £400,000 C... [More]

 1102BRN.pdf (778.00 kb)  Company fined after fatal warehouse roof fall Defendant Tullis Russell Papermaker Ltd Hearing 22 Feb 2011 Offence S3 HSWA Court Kirkaldy Sheriff Court Penalty Fine £260,000 Costs ... [More]

1101BRN.pdf (859.64 kb) Recycling company fined after man dies from being struck Defendant: Ling Metals Ltd Offences: s2, s3 HSWA, Lifting Operations and Lifting Appliances Regulations 1998 Penalty: Fine: £200,000 Costs: &pou... [More]

1012BRN.pdf (578.72 kb) Ed- Christmas time is always a difficult time is you have to associate the traditional family revelries with some tragic event.  With the a large number of cases relating to fatalities this month I feel personally for all affected by the bereavement who inevitably will ... [More]

  1011BRN.pdf (568.09 kb)   HSE Prosecutions Worker killed by swinging crane hook A Cardiff-based recycling company has ordered to pay over £230,000 after an employee died following an incident at its premises. John Penhalagan, 44, was employed by Celsa Manufacturing (UK) when ... [More]

1010BRN.pdf (1,023.79 kb) Enterprise Inns sentenced following landlord's death Enterprise Inns has been fined £300,000 after a landlord died from carbon monoxide poisoning, and tenants at another 474 pubs were put at risk. Paul Lee was found unconscious by a cleaner at the Aintree Hotel... [More]

1009BRN.pdf (1.00 mb) Editorial So what do we make of Lord Young's musings on health and safety and the compensation culture and the strident response of the Unions and others to those musings? Of course as matters stand Lord Young has not yet issued his report (that is set to be published after t... [More]

1008BRN.pdf (881.30 kb) Editorial August, traditionally is the month of summer holidays - or 'the long vac'. It used to be the case that few courts sat in August and any non-essential court business would be adjourned from mid-late July to September. Well those relaxed days are clearly on the wane... [More]

1007BRN.pdf (940.51 kb) Buncefield - £9.5m in fines and costs Following the explosions and fire at the Buncefield Oil Storage Depot in 2005 five companies have been ordered to pay £9.5 million. Part of this figure is made up of £1.3 million in fines for offences relating to the p... [More]

1006BRN.pdf (923.37 kb) 21-year-old employee killed Flowserve (GB) Ltd has been fined £150,000 by Lewes Crown Court following the death of a 21-year-old employee and pleading guilty to breaching s2(1) HSWA. Costs of £66,838 were also imposed. The prosecution followed an incident on 7 ... [More]

1005BRN.pdf (798.44 kb) Drug mix-up kills nurse hours after giving birth Great Western Hospitals NHS Trust has been prosecuted by the HSE after 30-year-old Mayra Cabrera died at the Marlborough Road hospital in Swindon on 11 May 2004. Mrs Cabrera, who was also a nurse at the hospital, was given a... [More]

  1004BRN.pdf (869.51 kb) Editorial I feel quite depressed putting together this edition of Brunswicks Regulatory News. As all readers will know each edition does cover a catalogue of death and destruction. However in this edition the death toll seems higher than one normally reports upo... [More]