Farmer handed suspended prison sentence after worker dies from fall
A farmer from Hampshire has received a suspended prison sentence after a worker fell to his death. Phillip France lost his life after falling from the roof of a cow shed at Tickner Bros in Hampshire. The self-employer labourer had been dismantling the cow shed with two other workers when he fell through a rooflight, […]
Contractor fined after worker left paralysed by falling tree
A contractor from Dorset has been fined after a tree fell onto a forestry worker and left him with life-changing injuries. The 61-year-old man, who was 58 at the time, is now paralysed from the stomach down after the 21-metre ash tree landed on top of him at The Fonthill Estate in Salisbury, Wiltshire on […]