Siemens Plc has pleaded guilty to breaching s 33(1)(c) of the Health and Safety at Work Act after a self-employed contractor died at its Train Care Facility in west London.

Iain Mawson – an aircraft engineer employed by British Airways Maintenance Cardiff (BAMC) Ltd – fell from a maintenance dock at BAMC’s facility in Cardiff whilst inspecting the wing of a Boeing 747. Such was the extent of his injuries, including multiple skull fractures and a brain haemorrhage, Iain was placed into an induced coma for three weeks and has not returned to work since.

A factory that makes M&Ms and Mars Bars has been fined more than £12,000 after an accident in which two workers fell into a vat of chocolate and were injured.

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.