Firm fined £14,000 for flouting fire safety laws
A furniture firm owned by a Littleborough man has been fined £14,000 for flouting fire safety laws - the biggest fine secured in Greater Manchester under fire safety laws.
A County Durham engineering firm has been fined £100,000, and ordered to pay £44,000 in costs, after a worker was crushed to death while clearing a jam on a production line, after pleading guilty to breaching Section 2 of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974.