Newcastle City Council has been fined after a five-year-old girl needed surgery when she was injured by an interactive exhibit at one of its museums.
The child was visiting the Discovery Museum in Newcastle with her family when she placed her hand in an opening of the "Floating on Air" exhibit on 17 August 2009.
The opening led down into the rotating blades of a fan which powered the air flow through the machine. The opening should have been protected by a guard which was missing and so the girl's hand came into contact with the rotating blades of the fan.
Union leaders have claimed that many workplace accidents go unreported, with an estimated 1.2 million people suffering from work-related illnesses.
The TUC said more than 20,000 people were killed prematurely by their work each year.
It wants a health and safety "tsar" appointed to help prevent deaths caused by issues such as occupational cancers, exposure to fumes and road accidents.
The government is currently reviewing health and safety laws.
A Shropshire boarding school has today been fined £25,000 after a worker was killed while demolishing a building on the site.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) prosecuted Moor Park Charitable Trust Ltd which runs Moor Park School, after it arranged for a team of inexperienced building workers to demolish a large wooden classroom on 14 August 2007.
The HSE investigation revealed the workers had no effective plan in place and removed integral supports within the classroom’s structure, causing the roof to collapse while five men were inside.
A building company and its director have been fined a total of £30,000 after a worker fell nearly thirty feet from scaffolding at a building site in Llanfairfechan, sustaining severe injuries.
JBB Homes Ltd of St. Petersgate, Stockport in Cheshire - which has subsequently gone into liquidation - pleaded guilty to breaching Section 2(1) of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974. It was fined £20,000 and ordered to pay costs of £10,835.
A shop fitting company has been fined after five workers were exposed to potentially deadly asbestos fibres at the Arndale Centre in Manchester.
Eastern Regional Shopfitters Ltd was prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) after it ignored a report which stated asbestos was present in a shop it was working on.
A North Lincolnshire ship breaking company put its workers and others at risk of exposure to asbestos containing materials, a court heard.
Marine reclamation company Acetech Construction Limited, purchased a Polish former fishing vessel "The Patricia III" in 2007 for dismantling and selling on as scrap. The ship, built in the 1970s, had been lying unused at Grimsby Dock for around three years.
Body shop workers are being encouraged to do more to protect themselves when paint spraying, as new research suggests that some are still putting themselves at risk of developing asthma.
A report by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) into the use of two-pack paints containing isocyanates has identified that, while practices have improved greatly in recent years, there are still a number of areas of concern.
Drug giant AstraZeneca is to pay $198m to settle 17,500 US personal injury claims related to its schizophrenia and bipolar disorder drug Seroquel.
Seroquel was launched in 1997 and has been one of the firm's top earners. It had worldwide sales of $4.9bn in 2009, accounting for 15% of group revenue.
Thousands have sued the firm in US courts, claiming the anti-psychotic drug caused weight gain and diabetes.
The average sum of $11,300 per claim is less than some past medical payouts.
Thousands of workers suffering from asbestos-related diseases may be eligible for £5,000 grants as annouced by the Ministry of Justice today.
Despite Law Lords ruling, unchanged during the Labour Government, preventing sufferers of pleural plaques from claiming compensation, payments of £5,000 will be available to people already in the process of a legal claim for compensation.
This could affect up to 6,000 people.
The scheme opens on Tuesday and sufferers in England and Wales have until August 1, 2011 to lodge a claim.
The owner of a Cornish vineyard died after a delivery of empty wine bottles crashed onto him when they fell from the tail lift of a lorry he was helping to unload.
Gregory Distribution Ltd of North Park, North Tawton was fined £200,000 with £16,993 costs at Truro Crown Court today (4 August) following a prosecution by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE).