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Fines, court rulings and incidents from Europe and North America: 1,370 cases from 35 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.

1case from 1 jurisdiction
€2.54mTotal of monetary amounts
€2.54mLargest single case: Huws Gray Limited
€2.54mMedian per case with an amount

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  1. United Kingdom €2.54m 100 % · 1 case

What for?

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  1. Workplace safety and accidents €2.54m 100 % · 1 case

Who?

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  1. Anonymised companies €7.01m 71 % · 3 cases
  2. Huws Gray Limited €2.54m 26 % · 1 case
  3. FleetPride Inc. €231,790 2 % · 1 case
  4. Ideal Supply Inc. €43,239 0 % · 1 case

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1 case

26 Mar 2026 Huws Gray LimitedBuilders' merchant Huws Gray: 2.2 million GBP after fatal conveyor accident United KingdomWorkplace safety and accidents €2.54m

At Herringswell sawmill in 2024 a labourer was crushed by a pack of timber weighing around three tonnes after a colleague started the conveyor without seeing him inside the conveyor framework. The company knew that workers were entering the danger zone – CCTV showed 19 occasions between 14 April and 23 May 2024 – but only put up stickers; fine of 2.2 million GBP plus 9,929 GBP in costs. According to its 2025 annual accounts, the company had an average of 4,570 employees.

What organisations can take from it

Where you know of unsafe behaviour at machinery, prevent it by technical means – warning signs alone will not satisfy a court.

Authority / court
Chelmsford Magistrates' Court (Anklage: Health and Safety Executive)
Area of law
Health and safety and employment law · Workplace safety and accidents
Legal basis
Section 2(1) Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974
Action
Fine
Status of proceedings
unknown
Sector
Retail and e-commerce
Employees
1,000 to 9,999
Published
27 Mar 2026

Original amount 2,200,000 GBP, converted at the ECB reference rate of 26 Mar 2026.

Checked against the official source on 28 Sep 2026 · Version 2 · Direct link

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