Birch Brothers (Kidderminster) Ltd was the principal contractor on a construction project in Derbyshire that was building a concrete overflow weir structure on the site. The Midlands firm had brought in steel fixers and joiners to undertake the work.

Chipboard manufacturer Norbord Europe Limited has been fined £2.15m after a four-week trial held at Perth Sheriff Court in Scotland found that a series of failings at its Cowie site in Stirlingshire had led to an employee’s death. Sixty-four-year-old George Laird sustained severe burns to 90% his body after being ‘enveloped’ in hot water, steam and ash and died in hospital the next day from his injuries.

A building firm has been fined £120,000 after two workers were seen fitting a stone on a new house from the airborne bucket of a digger.

A company has been ordered to pay more than £100,000 after a worker was left with life-changing injuries when a glass pallet fell on top of him.

Newcastle City Council has accepted responsibility for failing to properly manage the risk of a decayed willow tree that collapsed in strong winds and struck several children while they were playing at Gosforth Park First School in Newcastle upon Tyne during the lunch break.

The parent company of a contractor that was building a wind farm in Scotland and a security firm that employed staff to guard the remote site have been fined almost £900,000 after a security guard was trapped in snow for four and half hours and later died from hypothermia.

A Kent-based food production company has been fined £858,000 after a 26-year-old employee had to have his right arm surgically removed following an incident.

A man in his 40s has died after a ‘fatal traffic incident’ at the site of the nuclear power station being built in Somerset.

A Hertfordshire construction company has been fined after a worker fell through a skylight while working on a six-storey house.