Railcare Ltd has been fined £133,000 (reduced from £200,000 on account of their guilty plea) at Glasgow Sheriff Court for a breach of Section 2 of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974, following the death of one of their employees in December 2008. John Smith, a 53-year old employee of the company, died as a result of head injuries sustained whilst working at an axle lathe that had an unguarded chuck.
The company pled guilty to:
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Company fined after fatal accident at work
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on Thursday, 09 February 2012
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New figures show continued fall in workplace ill health and injury
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New figures have shown that the ongoing trend for falls in the number of people injured and made unwell at work has continued.
...Two thirds of Scottish workplace deaths in agriculture
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Nearly two thirds of Scots killed at work last year worked in agriculture, analysis of figures published earlier this year by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) have shown. Of the fifteen workplace fatalities that occurred between April 2010 and March 2011, nine were in agriculture.
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