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An employee in a Subway sandwich store has been awarded £15,484 after a tribunal judge ruled he was dismissed as a direct consequence of being autistic. Andrew Everitt’s employer, Regal [...]

An assistant farm manager from Norwich lost all his fingers and thumb of his left hand when it became caught in machinery. Norwich Magistrates’ Court heard how the farm manager was operating a [...]

A large steel fabrication company based in North Yorkshire, has been fined after a forklift truck (FLT) operator was killed when the truck he was operating overturned. However, the offence to [...]

A Suffolk cargo handling company has been fined £100,000 after an employee suffered serious injury when a sheet of marble weighing one tonne fell on him. Ipswich Crown Court heard how an employee [...]

A manufacturing company has been fined after an empty 45 gallon steel drum once containing flammable liquid caught fire and exploded when being cut in half. An employee of the company had [...]

A care provider has been prosecuted after a 60 year old man suffered severe scalding and later died after being lowered into a bath of hot water. The man suffered from both cerebral palsy and [...]

The director of a cinema has been fined after he put workers and members of the public at risk of exposure to asbestos during refurbishment works. An asbestos survey was only conducted after the [...]

A healthcare authority has been sentenced after an 82 year old man fell 12 feet to his death from an elevated walkway outside a health centre. It was heard in court how the man died after the [...]

A bar owner has been fined after serving a customer a glass of caustic soda (beer line cleaner) instead of beer. The customer was rushed to hospital where he was placed in an induced coma and [...]

A private landlord was prosecuted today after failing to provide gas safety certificates for two rented properties. The landlord did not comply with an improvement notice and pleaded guilty to [...]