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Liquidated waste management company fined £1 after man loses both legs in excavator crush

21st April 2026

health and safety / Health and Safety Executive / Waste Management

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Recycling company fined after man suffers life-changing injuries

16th March 2026

health and safety / Recycling

News

Paper packaging manufacturer fined £400,000 after man suffers life changing injuries

26th January 2026

health and safety / packaging

News

Plastics firm fined £277,500 after fatal machinery accident

12th November 2025

health and safety / plastic

News

UK post-consumer plastic exports rely on ‘a broken system full of criminality and death’, investigation finds

26th September 2025

health and safety / Recycling / Waste Exports

News

87% of people employed in recycling and waste feel safe at work

28th November 2024

Environmental Services Association / health and safety

News

Waste management company fined £200,000 after man suffered serious burns

15th May 2024

health and safety / Health and Safety Executive

News

Metal recycling company fined £200,000 after employee’s arm severed

8th March 2024

health and safety / Metal Recycling

News

Recycling company fined £40,000 after 2019 employee death

12th October 2023

health and safety / Health and Safety Executive / Recycling

News

Hertfordshire recycling firm fined after employee’s leg amputated

17th May 2023

health and safety / Health and Safety Executive

News

Recycling firm wall collapse directors jailed after deaths of 5 men

16th May 2023

health and safety / Health and Safety at Work Act

Insight

Playing it safe: CIWM’s new level 3 health & safety programme

10th May 2023

CIWM / health and safety / training

News

HSE found serious safety concerns on 43% of waste site visits

20th April 2023

health and safety / HSE / waste and recycling sector

Feature

Improving safety in the waste & recycling sector

5th April 2023

health and safety / HSE / waste and recycling sector

News

Study: microplastics used in packaging and paint discovered in human veins

2nd February 2023

health and safety / Microplastics

Guidance

Disposing of redundant or time-expired flares (pyrotechnics)

17th January 2023

CIWM / health and safety / pyrotechnics

News

New EU-funded project aims to prevent fires caused by batteries at e-waste recycling facilities

28th November 2022

Batteries / health and safety / WEEE

News

Waste industry fatal injury rate 11 times the all industry rate, new figures show

28th November 2022

health and safety / HSE / waste industry

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