• Wakefield company fined £110,000 after Edinburgh scaffolding collapse - 27 October 2006
  Two firms have today been fined a total of £132,000 at Edinburgh Sheriff Court. The case follows a scaffolding collapse at a site in the city's Hawkhill Avenue in May 2005 in which a worker was injured.
• Brick giant fines after quarry mans fall - 25 October 2006
  Brick company Hanson has been fined £95,000 under health and safety laws after a workman fell from a tower and injured his spine at a Stewartby claypit.
• Shock as council foots the bill - 20 October 2006
  Hackney council has been fined £10,000 pounds after a worker was left in a coma after he was thrown from a ladder following an electric shock.
• BT cleared over death of engineer - 19 October 2006
  A worker was killed when the telegraph pole she was working from collapsed after a low hanging cable was snagged by a high-sided vehicle.
• HSE prosecutes after Rugby worker injured - 19 October 2006
  The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has warned companies to ensure that adequate precautions are being taken to prevent injuries due to falling from height - which claim around 50 lives a year.
• Southport company pays over £7,000 for health and safety offences - 18 October 2006
  A Southport company has been fined a total of £5,000 and ordered to pay full costs of £2,145 after pleading guilty to two criminal charges brought by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) at Southport Magistrates' Court today after two teenage employees had been found standing 2.5 metres in the air on a pallet on the raised forks of fork lift truck.
• Sewage tank fall company fined £13,000 - 18 October 2006
  A Suffolk construction firm has been fined £13,000 after a worker fell five metres from the roof of a sewage tank.
• Crane death report published - 16 October 2006
  The UK's Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has published a report on its investigation into the death of a construction worker killed by a falling load. The HSE’s findings raise an issue for those undertaking routine examination and inspection of lifting tackle in respect of components that are not visible unless dismantled.
• Denbigh fined after man falls through roof - 13 October 2006
  The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is reminding businesses about the dangers their employees and contractors face in working at height and are urging them to ensure proper safety measures are taken.
• Scaffolding firm faces fresh probe after second collapse - 13 October 2006
  The scaffolding firm involved in a near-fatal accident in the Capital is facing a fresh investigation after a second of its structures collapsed. The Health and Safety Executive said it would be investigating the latest incident, in which scaffolding fell on to a parked car in a residential street in Slateford.
• Farmers in North East warned of falls risks - 6 October 2006
  More than 300 farmers were told how to cut agricultural accidents at a special event in the North-East yesterday.
• Two hurt in balcony fall - 05 October 2006
  Health and safety inspectors could investigate why a balcony collapsed on a Plymouth building site, injuring two workmen.
• Tree firm’s £1.7k fine after fall - 3 October 2006
  An out-of-work actor saw the curtain come down on his new career as a tree surgeon when he plunged 23 feet from a conifer.
• Campaign launched in Hampshire to cut falls in the workplace - 28 September 2006
  A NEW campaign is being launched in Hampshire to help prevent workers falling from a dangerous height.
• Cutting corners costs lives - 27 September 2006
  HSE warning after Pontypridd property developers fined for unsafe practices

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