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Fines, court rulings and incidents from Europe, North America, Latin America, Asia-Pacific, Middle East and Africa: 2,207 cases from 44 jurisdictions, each with an official source and checked against that source before publication. Filter by country, area of law and sector. Click a chart to drill down one level.
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by company- Esso Petroleum Company Limited €1.16m 43 % · 1 case
- Shell UK Limited €637,233 24 % · 1 case
- Bio Dynamic (UK) Limited €365,964 14 % · 1 case
- China Power International Development Limited, Towngas - China Power (HK) Integrated Energy Company Limited, A. Kourage Limited u. a. (4 Unternehmen) €348,309 13 % · 1 case
- Hydro One Networks Inc. €168,543 6 % · 1 case
- Anonymised companies €27,000 1 % · 1 case
- Equinor – 0 % · 1 case
When?
per year, by date of decision| Period | Cases | Total |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 1 | €27,000 |
| 2024 | 2 | €534,507 |
| 2025 | 2 | €637,233 |
| 2026 | 2 | €1.51m |
7 cases
17 Sep 2026 China Power International Development Limited, Towngas - China Power (HK) Integrated Energy Company Limited, A. Kourage Limited u. a. (4 Unternehmen)Fatal electric shock at Science Park: four companies pay 3,137,250 HKD €348,309
On 17 September 2026 the Shatin Magistrates' Courts (a Hong Kong magistrates' court), on prosecutions brought by the Labour Department (Hong Kong's labour authority), fined four companies for breaches of the Factories and Industrial Undertakings Regulations, the Factories and Industrial Undertakings (Electricity) Regulations and the Construction Sites (Safety) Regulations (Hong Kong workplace safety rules). The case concerned a fatal accident on 10 September 2023 at Hong Kong Science Park, in which a worker received an electric shock while carrying out electrical work. China Power International Development Limited and Towngas - China Power (HK) Integrated Energy Company Limited pay 908,000 HKD each, A. Kourage Limited 904,250 HKD and Skynet Engineering Company Limited 417,000 HKD, 3,137,250 HKD in total.
In electrical work several companies involved can be criminally liable at the same time – workplace safety must be coordinated among all parties.
Electrical safety in installation and construction work
- Authority / court
- Shatin Magistrates' Courts, Hongkong (Anklage: Labour Department)
- Area of law
- Health and safety and employment law · Workplace safety and accidents
- Legal basis
- Factories and Industrial Undertakings Regulations; Factories and Industrial Undertakings (Electricity) Regulations; Construction Sites (Safety) Regulations
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Energy and utilities
- Published
- 17 Sep 2026
Original amount 3,137,250 HKD, converted at the ECB reference rate of 17 Sep 2026.
- HKSAR Government (Labour Department): Contractors fined for violation of safety legislation (17.09.2026) Press release of an authority
- Labour Department: Press Releases (Liste) Press release of an authority
Checked against the official source on 3 Oct 2026 · Direct link
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12 Jun 2026 Esso Petroleum Company LimitedEsso: £1m fine after LPG release at Fawley refinery €1.16m
Esso was fined £1m and ordered to pay £12,277 in costs. On 8 November 2022, a corroded steel tower at the Fawley refinery partially collapsed, damaged pipework and released around 2,400 kg of liquefied petroleum gas over 33 hours; workers were exposed to the risk of falling debris and potential burns. According to the Health and Safety Executive's investigation, the corrosion had been known since 2010 without appropriate action being taken.
Known corrosion findings on load-bearing structures must be assessed and remedied promptly, before they lead to a major incident.
Asset integrity and handling known corrosion findings
- Authority / court
- Southampton Magistrates' Court (Anklage: Health and Safety Executive)
- Area of law
- Health and safety and employment law · Workplace safety and accidents
- Legal basis
- Section 3(1) Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Energy and utilities
- Mitigating circumstances
- Guilty plea; no injuries.
- Published
- 15 Jun 2026
Original amount 1,000,000 GBP, converted at the ECB reference rate of 12 Jun 2026.
- HSE: Esso fined £1 million after major gas leak at Fawley refinery (15.06.2026) Press release of an authority
Checked against the official source on 3 Oct 2026 · Direct link
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25 Nov 2025 Shell UK LimitedShell UK: £560,000 fine after hydrocarbon release on Brent Charlie €637,233
Shell UK pleaded guilty to two charges under the offshore fire and explosion regulations (PFEER 1995) and was fined £560,000. On 19 May 2017, around 200 kg of gas and 1,550 kg of crude oil escaped into a concrete leg of the Brent Charlie platform from corroded pipework that had originally been installed only temporarily; the ventilation systems had also been inadequately maintained. More than 170 people on board were exposed to a potential fire and explosion risk.
Temporary installations need a fixed removal date and, until then, their own inspection regime.
Management of change for temporary pipework
- Authority / court
- Aberdeen Sheriff Court (Ermittlung: Health and Safety Executive)
- Area of law
- Health and safety and employment law · Workplace safety and accidents
- Legal basis
- Offshore Installations (Prevention of Fire and Explosion, and Emergency Response) Regulations 1995 (PFEER), zwei Anklagepunkte
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Energy and utilities
- Mitigating circumstances
- Guilty plea; the court set the fine after taking mitigating factors into account.
- Published
- 28 Nov 2025
Original amount 560,000 GBP, converted at the ECB reference rate of 25 Nov 2025.
- HSE: Shell UK fined £560,000 following major hydrocarbon release (28.11.2025) Press release of an authority
Checked against the official source on 3 Oct 2026 · Direct link
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20 Jun 2025 EquinorEquinor: Havtil order after health symptoms during work at Hammerfest LNG Order
Havindustritilsynet (Havtil, Norwegian Ocean Industry Authority) ordered Equinor to ensure and document that work in area L201 of the Hammerfest LNG plant is fully prudent before it resumes, including specialist analyses of exposure conditions at the work site. The order followed three incidents between June 2024 and June 2025 in the Snøhvit Future project in which workers developed symptoms – after the first, 17 people went to an emergency clinic; the authority considered Equinor's own criteria for resuming work to be insufficient.
After repeated health incidents, work should only resume once exposure conditions have been analysed by specialists and the findings are also applied by the contractors involved.
Workplace exposure and safe resumption of work
- Authority / court
- Havindustritilsynet (Havtil)
- Area of law
- Health and safety and employment law · Workplace safety and accidents
- Legal basis
- § 69 i. V. m. § 10 rammeforskriften; §§ 11, 16 und 18 styringsforskriften
- Action
- Order
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Energy and utilities
- Employees
- 10,000 or more
- Published
- 20 Jun 2025
- Havtil: Pålegg til Equinor – Hammerfest LNG – sikre og dokumentere forsvarlighet før gjenopptakelse av arbeid (20.06.2025) Press release of an authority
- Havtil: Order to Equinor – Hammerfest LNG – ensure and document prudence of activities before resumption of work (25.06.2025) Press release of an authority
Checked against the official source on 28 Sep 2026 · Direct link
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22 Nov 2024 Bio Dynamic (UK) LimitedBiogas plant: tank explodes during angle grinding – 304,500 GBP after joint HSE/EA prosecution €365,964
In 2017 two employees were cutting pipes with an angle grinder on top of an eleven-metre-high slurry tank without fall protection; sparks ignited gases, the tank exploded, both were seriously injured and one had a leg amputated. There was no safe tank design, no risk assessments, no permit-to-work procedures, no training and no supervision, and the operator also breached its environmental permit; fines totalling 304,500 GBP plus 229,988 GBP in costs. The company is a micro-enterprise with fewer than 10 employees.
Carry out hot work on plant containing flammable gases only with a permit to work, gas testing and fall protection – having a permit on paper does not protect against liability.
Hot work and permit-to-work procedures in explosive atmospheres
Missing or inadequate training played a role in the decision.
- Authority / court
- Nottingham Crown Court (Anklage: Environment Agency und Health and Safety Executive)
- Area of law
- Health and safety and employment law · Workplace safety and accidents
- Legal basis
- Section 2(1) und 3(1) Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974; Regulation 38(2) Environmental Permitting Regulations 2016; Section 33(1)(c) Environmental Protection Act 1990
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Energy and utilities
- Employees
- Under 50
- Published
- 28 Nov 2024
Original amount 304,500 GBP, converted at the ECB reference rate of 22 Nov 2024.
- Company fined after an explosion seriously injured two employees (Environment Agency) Press release of an authority
Checked against the official source on 28 Sep 2026 · Version 3 · Direct link
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19 Nov 2024 Hydro One Networks Inc.Hydro One: CA$250,000 after contact with live line €168,543
While copper conductors were being installed on a de-energised 44 kV line, a piece of conductor touched the uncovered 4.8 kV line running below it; a worker was seriously injured. The network operator had not complied with the safety rules for work near energised equipment. Fine of CA$250,000 (19 November 2024).
De-energising alone is not enough; adjacent lines that remain live must be covered.
Covering adjacent live parts
- Authority / court
- Provincial Offences Court Goderich (Ermittlung: Ontario Ministry of Labour, Immigration, Training and Skills Development)
- Area of law
- Health and safety and employment law · Workplace safety and accidents
- Legal basis
- Sections 181, 183 O. Reg. 213/91 (Construction Projects) i. V. m. s. 132 Electrical Utility Safety Rules; ss. 27(1)(a), 25(1)(c) Occupational Health and Safety Act (Ontario)
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Energy and utilities
- Mitigating circumstances
- Guilty plea.
- Liability of senior managers
- Measures against individuals are not reported here.
- Published
- 15 Jan 2025
Original amount 250,000 CAD, converted at the ECB reference rate of 19 Nov 2024.
- Ontario Newsroom, Court Bulletin zu Hydro One Networks Inc. (Entscheidung 2024) Press release of an authority
Checked against the official source on 28 Sep 2026 · Version 3 · Direct link
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13 Oct 2023 a Dutch offshore construction companyNetherlands: EUR 27,000 fine on an offshore construction company as project crew worked up to 27 days in a row €27,000
The Dutch Minister of Social Affairs and Employment fined a Dutch company whose activities include building and maintaining offshore wind farms EUR 27,000: according to the findings of the mining regulator Staatstoezicht op de Mijnen (Dutch State Supervision of Mines), twelve members of a project crew working on the construction of an offshore wind farm had worked on more than 14 consecutive days between 23 November and 20 December 2022; eleven of them for 20 days and one for 27 days in a row. The company argued without success that the working time rules for seafarers applied to the crew, which worked mainly on a crane vessel; the competent court dismissed its appeal on 20 November 2025.
For offshore work, the nature of the work determines which working time rules apply: anyone working for a wind farm is subject to the stricter offshore rules, even if the crew works mainly on board a ship.
Maximum number of consecutive working days in offshore work
- Authority / court
- Minister van Sociale Zaken en Werkgelegenheid (Bußgeld; Aufsicht: Staatstoezicht op de Mijnen); bestätigt durch Rechtbank Rotterdam
- Area of law
- Health and safety and employment law · Working time
- Legal basis
- Arbeidstijdenwet; Art. 5.14:2 Abs. 3 i. V. m. Art. 5.17:2 Arbeidstijdenbesluit (Arbeit auf, von oder für einen Windpark auf See)
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Energy and utilities
- Published
- 1 Dec 2025
Checked against the official source on 2 Oct 2026 · Company name anonymised since 13 Oct 2025 · Direct link