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Fines, court rulings and incidents from Europe and North America: 756 cases from 32 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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Where?
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What for?
by action- Other €112,865 53 % · 1 case
- Fine €100,000 47 % · 1 case
Who?
by companyNo cases for this selection.
When?
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| Q1 2024 | 0 | — |
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| Q4 2024 | 0 | — |
| Q1 2025 | 1 | €100,000 |
| Q2 2025 | 0 | — |
| Q3 2025 | 0 | — |
| Q4 2025 | 1 | €112,865 |
| Q1 2026 | 0 | — |
| Q2 2026 | 0 | — |
| Q3 2026 | 0 | — |
2 cases
12 Nov 2025 Fatal fall of trailer chassis: managing director and safety officer convicted €112,865
In 2018, an employee died on the premises of a company (anonymised in the judgment as ‘D. AG’) when a steel lorry trailer chassis weighing around two tonnes fell while being lifted by crane: an unprotected lifting sling tore on a sharp edge, edge protection was missing, the employees had not been trained to keep out of the danger zone of suspended loads, and requirements imposed by SUVA (the Swiss accident insurance fund) in 2013/2014 had not been implemented. The Swiss Federal Supreme Court (Bundesgericht) upheld the convictions for negligent homicide against the managing director (180 daily rates of 410 CHF, suspended) and the safety officer (180 daily rates of 170 CHF, suspended), totalling 104,400 CHF (6B_521/2025, 6B_523/2025).
In Switzerland, managing directors and safety officers are personally criminally liable for occupational safety if crane work is not organised safely.
No standing under suspended loads
Missing or inadequate training played a role in the decision.
- Authority / court
- Schweizerisches Bundesgericht (Vorinstanz: Kantonsgericht Freiburg, Strafappellationshof)
- Area of law
- Health and safety and employment law · Workplace safety and accidents
- Legal basis
- Art. 117 StGB (fahrlässige Tötung) i. V. m. Sorgfaltspflichten der Arbeitssicherheit
- Action
- Other
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Manufacturing and mechanical engineering
- Culpability
- negligent
- Mitigating circumstances
- Monetary penalties imposed on a suspended basis.
- Liability of senior managers
- Managing director and safety officer personally convicted of negligent homicide.
Original amount 104,400 CHF, converted at the ECB reference rate of 12 Nov 2025.
- Bundesgericht, Urteil 6B_521/2025 vom 12.11.2025 Court decision
Checked against the official source on 25 Sep 2026 · Direct link
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10 Feb 2025 Fatal pallet fall in warehouse: 100,000 EUR fine for industrial door manufacturer €100,000
In January 2023, in the warehouse of a manufacturer of industrial doors in Didam (anonymised in the judgment), a 792 kg pallet fell from an unstable stack four high onto a new employee, who died; the forklift used, fitted with fork extensions, had no CE marking of its own and was unsuitable for the load, the risk assessment was incomplete and the instruction of the victim, who did not speak Dutch, was inadequate. The Overijssel District Court (Rechtbank Overijssel, economic division) imposed 100,000 EUR (of which 25,000 EUR suspended) for intentional violations of the Dutch Working Conditions Act (Arbowet), plus 17,500 EUR in damages to the mother (ECLI:NL:RBOVE:2025:711).
Instruct employees in a language they understand – and draw consequences from earlier reportable accidents.
Instruction of employees who speak other languages; safe stacking
Missing or inadequate training played a role in the decision.
- Authority / court
- Rechtbank Overijssel (economische kamer)
- Area of law
- Health and safety and employment law · Workplace safety and accidents
- Legal basis
- Art. 32 Arbeidsomstandighedenwet i. V. m. Art. 5 Abs. 1, 8 Abs. 1 Arbeidsomstandighedenwet; Art. 3.17, 7.2 Abs. 1, 7.18 Abs. 2 Arbeidsomstandighedenbesluit
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Manufacturing and mechanical engineering
- Culpability
- intentional
- Mitigating circumstances
- No previous convictions of the company; part of the fine suspended.
- Rechtbank Overijssel, ECLI:NL:RBOVE:2025:711 vom 10.02.2025 Court decision
Checked against the official source on 25 Sep 2026 · Direct link