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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- Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy Ltd €694,300 20 % · 1 case
- O-I Glass Limited €687,364 19 % · 1 case
- Multi Packaging Solutions UK Limited €496,828 14 % · 1 case
- Dairymaster Unlimited Company €400,000 11 % · 1 case
- Stars Engrg Pte Ltd €339,697 10 % · 1 case
- Emma Bridgewater Limited €311,752 9 % · 1 case
- Double J Smallwoods €304,230 9 % · 1 case
- Northwood Consumer Limited (heute NP Birmingham Limited) €276,021 8 % · 1 case
- Commercial Lines Limited (HLN Supplies) €18,494 1 % · 1 case
When?
per year, by date of decision| Period | Cases | Total |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3 | €1.06m |
| 2026 | 7 | €2.57m |
10 cases
27 Jul 2026 Dairymaster Unlimited Company€400,000 fine for Dairymaster after fatal incident involving milking parlour gate €400,000
In July 2020 a farmer on a dairy farm in County Limerick was fatally injured by a pneumatically operated milking parlour gate designed and manufactured by Dairymaster. The company pleaded guilty to six counts; the court imposed €200,000 each for breaches of s. 16(3) and s. 16(1)(a) of the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act 2005 (duties of designers and manufacturers), totalling €400,000, with the remaining counts taken into consideration.
Manufacturers of work equipment are criminally liable for safe design, testing and adequate safety information.
- Authority / court
- Limerick Circuit Criminal Court (Anklage: Health and Safety Authority)
- Area of law
- Health and safety and employment law · Workplace safety and accidents
- Legal basis
- s. 16(1)(a), 16(3) i. V. m. s. 77(2)(a), 77(9)(a) Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act 2005
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Manufacturing and mechanical engineering
- Published
- 28 Jul 2026
- HSA: Dairymaster Unlimited Company fined €400,000 following a fatal workplace incident (28.07.2026) Press release of an authority
Checked against the official source on 2 Oct 2026 · Direct link
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6 Jul 2026 Emma Bridgewater LimitedEmma Bridgewater: snow machine falls during Christmas lights event – 266,666 GBP €311,752
During a Christmas lights event at the factory shop in Hanley in November 2024, an unsecured artificial snow machine fell from a window; shards of glass injured a twelve-year-old girl on the head. The ceramics manufacturer had not assessed the risks and, contrary to the manufacturer's instructions, had not secured the machine; fine of 266,666 GBP plus 4,931 GBP in costs. According to its annual accounts (financial year to April 2025), the company had an average of 345 employees.
Treat marketing events as a health and safety matter: when installing equipment above the public, prevent objects from falling and follow the manufacturer's instructions.
- Authority / court
- Birmingham Magistrates' Court (Anklage: Health and Safety Executive)
- Area of law
- Health and safety and employment law · Workplace safety and accidents
- Legal basis
- Regulation 10(1) Work at Height Regulations 2005; Section 3(1) Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Manufacturing and mechanical engineering
- Employees
- 250 to 999
- Published
- 7 Jul 2026
Original amount 266,666 GBP, converted at the ECB reference rate of 6 Jul 2026.
- Emma Bridgewater fined £266,666 after falling shard of glass injures child (HSE) Press release of an authority
- Companies House: Registereintrag Emma Bridgewater Limited (01943787) Official register or notice
Checked against the official source on 28 Sep 2026 · Version 2 · Direct link
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25 Jun 2026 Stars Engrg Pte LtdStars Engrg: SGD 500,000 fine after fatal explosion €339,697
An explosion and fire at a heated mixer machine at Stars Engrg Pte Ltd's Tuas worksite on 24 February 2021 killed three workers and injured seven; the company was fined a total of SGD 500,000 under the Workplace Safety and Health Act. According to investigations by the Ministry of Manpower (MOM, Singapore's labour ministry) and an inquiry committee, the machine had been kept running despite repeated warning signs such as overheating, oil leaks, smoke and a fire shortly beforehand, and there were failures in risk assessment, safe work procedures, maintenance, supervision and training. After the incident, messages significant to the investigation were also deleted.
Taking machinery warning signs seriously; risk assessment, safe work procedures and training
Missing or inadequate training played a role in the decision.
- Authority / court
- Ministry of Manpower (MOM); Verurteilung durch ein Singapurer Strafgericht
- Area of law
- Health and safety and employment law · Workplace safety and accidents
- Legal basis
- Workplace Safety and Health Act 2006 (WSHA); Penal Code (Behinderung der Justiz, gegen Einzelpersonen)
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Manufacturing and mechanical engineering
- Liability of senior managers
- Measures against individuals are not set out here.
- Published
- 25 Jun 2026
Original amount 500,000 SGD, converted at the ECB reference rate of 25 Jun 2026.
- MOM: Stars Engrg – Workplace Explosion At Tuas Worksite; Company Also Penalised (25.06.2026) Press release of an authority
Checked against the official source on 4 Oct 2026 · Direct link
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22 May 2026 Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy LtdSiemens Gamesa: £600,000 fine after accident at Hull blade factory €694,300
Siemens Gamesa was fined £600,000 and ordered to pay £7,980.80 in costs. At the blade factory in Hull on 18 July 2024, a prefabricated component weighing around 800 kg fell onto an employee after support poles had been removed; she has since been paralysed from the waist down. The Health and Safety Executive found inadequate risk assessment, no safe system of work and insufficient training.
Where employees develop their own working methods, a binding and trained safe system of work is usually missing.
Risk assessment and safe systems of work in manufacturing
Missing or inadequate training played a role in the decision.
- Authority / court
- Grimsby 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
- Manufacturing and mechanical engineering
- Mitigating circumstances
- Guilty plea; after the accident the supports were secured with a key-controlled system.
- Published
- 26 May 2026
Original amount 600,000 GBP, converted at the ECB reference rate of 22 May 2026.
- HSE: Siemens fined £600,000 after employee left paralysed at site in Hull (26.05.2026) Press release of an authority
Checked against the official source on 3 Oct 2026 · Direct link
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26 Mar 2026 Commercial Lines Limited (HLN Supplies)Plastics fabricator: two finger injuries in ten days – 16,000 GBP €18,494
In August 2024 two employees of the Leeds plastics fabricator lost parts of fingers within ten days – one on an unguarded sanding machine, the other on a table saw. The HSE (Health and Safety Executive, Britain's workplace safety regulator) found inadequate guarding, insufficient saw training, no safe systems of work and no suitable risk assessment; fine of 16,000 GBP plus 6,534 GBP in costs for the business, which had 17 employees according to its annual accounts.
Treat an accident on one machine as a warning for all others – after the first incident, review all guarding and instruction immediately.
Safe use of saws and machinery
Missing or inadequate training played a role in the decision.
- Authority / court
- Leeds 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; Regulation 3(1) Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Manufacturing and mechanical engineering
- Employees
- Under 50
- Published
- 26 Mar 2026
Original amount 16,000 GBP, converted at the ECB reference rate of 26 Mar 2026.
- Plastics firm fined after two workers lose fingers in just ten days (HSE) Press release of an authority
- Companies House: Registereintrag Commercial Lines Limited (01762733) Official register or notice
Checked against the official source on 28 Sep 2026 · Version 2 · Direct link
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18 Mar 2026 Double J SmallwoodsDouble J Smallwoods sawmill: 601,250 NZD after two serious injuries €304,230
In June 2024 timber kicked back from an inadequately guarded stack saw at the Gisborne sawmill and seriously injured a worker's arm; seven weeks later another worker was crushed between two forklifts and suffered spinal and pelvic fractures. WorkSafe (New Zealand's workplace health and safety regulator) found systemic failings in machine guarding, risk assessment, traffic management, training and maintenance; the company had not notified the first incident and had not acted on earlier formal directions to fix the risks. On 18 March 2026 the Gisborne District Court imposed a fine of 601,250 NZD and 100,754 NZD in reparation.
Regulatory directions and first incidents call for immediate action – failing to notify incidents and leaving risks unaddressed invites further injuries.
Machine guarding, workplace traffic management and incident notification
Missing or inadequate training played a role in the decision.
- Authority / court
- Gisborne District Court (Anklage: WorkSafe New Zealand)
- Area of law
- Health and safety and employment law · Workplace safety and accidents
- Legal basis
- Health and Safety at Work Act 2015, ss 36(1)(a), 48(1), 48(2)(c)
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Manufacturing and mechanical engineering
- Published
- 30 Mar 2026
Original amount 601,250 NZD, converted at the ECB reference rate of 18 Mar 2026.
- WorkSafe New Zealand: Known risks ignored: sawmill penalised after two serious injuries (30.03.2026) Press release of an authority
Checked against the official source on 3 Oct 2026 · Direct link
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20 Jan 2026 Multi Packaging Solutions UK LimitedPackaging manufacturer: 4.5-tonne machine falls on worker – 433,333 GBP €496,828
During an improvised relocation of a 4.5-tonne machine without lifting points, using a forklift and skates, the load slid off the forks at the East Kilbride plant in 2023 and struck an employee working underneath it on the head; he suffered permanent damage to his sight, hearing and facial nerves. The lifting operation had not been planned by a competent person; fine of 433,333 GBP. According to its 2024 annual accounts, the company (now Smurfit Westrock Consumer Packaging UK Limited) employed an average of 1,397 people in the United Kingdom.
Have rare, non-routine lifting operations planned separately by a competent person before anyone steps under the load – they are the most dangerous.
- Authority / court
- Hamilton Sheriff Court (Ermittlung: Health and Safety Executive)
- Area of law
- Health and safety and employment law · Workplace safety and accidents
- Legal basis
- Regulation 8(1)(a) und (c) Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations 1998
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Manufacturing and mechanical engineering
- Employees
- 1,000 to 9,999
- Published
- 21 Jan 2026
Original amount 433,333 GBP, converted at the ECB reference rate of 20 Jan 2026.
- Packaging company fined after worker suffers life-changing head injuries (HSE) Press release of an authority
- Companies House: Registereintrag Multi Packaging Solutions UK Limited (02586987) Official register or notice
Checked against the official source on 28 Sep 2026 · Version 2 · Direct link
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6 Oct 2025 Northwood Consumer Limited (heute NP Birmingham Limited)Reversing HGV kills employee: manufacturer pays 240,000 GBP €276,021
In 2023 an employee was killed by a reversing HGV on the service road of the shared industrial estate in Birmingham. The company had not assessed the risks of workplace transport, had neither avoided reversing nor made it safer with banksmen or signage, and had not controlled HGV access; fine of 240,000 GBP plus 6,917 GBP in costs. According to its 2024 annual accounts, the company employed an average of 37 people.
Set clear rules for workplace transport: avoid or safeguard reversing and separate pedestrian routes from vehicle routes.
- Authority / court
- Birmingham 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) und 3(1) Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Manufacturing and mechanical engineering
- Employees
- Under 50
- Published
- 7 Oct 2025
Original amount 240,000 GBP, converted at the ECB reference rate of 6 Oct 2025.
- HSE, Pressemitteilung zu Northwood Consumer Limited (Entscheidung 2025) Press release of an authority
- Companies House: Registereintrag Northwood Consumer Limited (10296424) Official register or notice
Checked against the official source on 28 Sep 2026 · Version 3 · Direct link
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23 Sep 2025 O-I Glass LimitedO-I Glass: missing cab door on shovel loader, worker scalded – 600,000 GBP €687,364
At the Alloa glassworks, a shovel loader used to clear molten glass waste and hot water had been missing the protective cab door for almost two years, although the damage had been reported and other drivers had already been struck. In 2024 material spilled into the cab and scalded a 32-year-old; fine of 600,000 GBP. According to the HSE (Health and Safety Executive, Britain's workplace safety regulator), around 500 people work at the site; according to its 2024 annual accounts, the company employed an average of 642 people.
Set up a binding repair process for reported damage to safety equipment – a report that is not acted upon is a documented failure.
- Authority / court
- Stirling Sheriff Court (Ermittlung: Health and Safety Executive)
- Area of law
- Health and safety and employment law · Workplace safety and accidents
- Legal basis
- Regulation 5(1) Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998; Section 33(1) Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Manufacturing and mechanical engineering
- Employees
- 250 to 999
- Published
- 30 Sep 2025
Original amount 600,000 GBP, converted at the ECB reference rate of 23 Sep 2025.
- Global glass bottle maker fined £600k after worker injured (HSE) Press release of an authority
- Companies House: Registereintrag O-I Glass Limited (00526983) Official register or notice
Checked against the official source on 28 Sep 2026 · Version 2 · 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