Private Boarding School Fined £50,000

A private boarding school fined £50,000 after exposing two employees, five pupils, and two other children to high levels of radioactive radon gas.

Landowner fined after public attacked by cows

A landowner has been fined after public attacked by cows which resulted in serious injuries.  A fine of £15,000 was imposed after members of the public were seriously injured by cattle while walking along footpaths on the landowner’s estate.

Directors jailed after five men died

Two company directors jailed after five men died after a wall collapsed. The directors ran a Birmingham metal recycling business where a wall toppled over.

County Durham man sentenced after waste burnt

County Durham man sentenced after waste burnt on land near Derwent Reservoir following Environment Agency investigation.

Employee Died while Loading Lorry

An employee died while loading lorry at a landscaping company which resulted in the company being fined following a prosecution brought by the Health and Safety Executive. An East Yorkshire garden landscaping supply company has been fined £600,000 after an employee died while loading a lorry.

Corporate Manslaughter Prosecution

A corporate manslaughter prosecution by Dorset Police has resulted in convictions for a waste management company and its director.

A waste and recycling company has been sentenced for corporate manslaughter and other health and safety offences following the death of a man at a site in Poole. A company director has also been sentenced in connection with the incident.

North East Waste Operator Sentenced

A North East waste operator sentenced to 30 weeks imprisonment, suspended for 18 months following a successful prosecution by the Environment Agency.

Waste Wood Prosecutions

Waste wood prosecutions have resulted in fines and costs totalling £61,380 on a West Midlands company director and his waste wood recycling operations

Waste company fined for illegal sewage operation

Waste company fined for illegal sewage operation at Warminster.  Waste management company Cleansing Services Group Ltd, has been fined more than £72,000 after it treated sewage without a permit, despite knowing that they were acting illegally.

Council fined after death of girl

Council fined after death of girl hit by falling tree. A council has been fined £280,000 after the death of a six-year-old girl who was hit by a falling tree in her school playground.

Ella Henderson was playing with friends at Gosforth Park First School in Newcastle upon Tyne on 25 September 2020 when a decaying willow tree collapsed.