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by company- Somers Forge Limited €859,697 28 % · 1 case
- Anonymised companies €515,201 17 % · 3 cases
- Jindal Tubular USA LLC €425,293 14 % · 1 case
- Bridgnorth Aluminium Limited €345,742 11 % · 1 case
- United Steel Limited €181,678 6 % · 1 case
- All FAB Precision Sheetmetal, Inc. €180,168 6 % · 1 case
- Stanley Wire Limited €160,514 5 % · 1 case
- Brunner Manufacturing & Sales Ltd. (Tecna Forge) €140,306 5 % · 1 case
- Metex Heat Treating Ltd. €89,949 3 % · 1 case
- Fostermation Inc. €58,430 2 % · 1 case
- 3 more€108,894
When?
per year, by date of decision| Period | Cases | Total |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 5 | €1.12m |
| 2025 | 5 | €661,928 |
| 2026 | 5 | €1.28m |
15 cases
1 Sep 2026 PPS Metal Recycling LtdScrapyard: £40,000 fine after metal pile collapses on father and son €46,699
In February 2025, a pile of scrap collapsed on a father and his son at the metal recycler's site while an excavator had been working near them for around 20 minutes; one of them suffered a broken leg. Pedestrians were separated neither from machinery nor from unstable stockpiles, even though there had been a near miss involving the same excavator shortly before. Fine of £40,000 plus £6,181 costs. According to the annual accounts filed with the UK companies register for financial year 2025, the company had around 18 employees.
Companies that allow customers or visitors onto a site with machinery must physically separate pedestrians and vehicles and treat near misses as a warning sign.
- 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 3(1) Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Steel and metals
- Employees
- Under 50
- Mitigating circumstances
- After the accident, a separate unloading zone, signage, supervised procedures and fenced-off walkways were introduced.
- Published
- 2 Sep 2026
Original amount 40,000 GBP, converted at the ECB reference rate of 1 Sep 2026.
- Scrap yard fined after father and son injured by collapsing metal pile (HSE) Press release of an authority
- Companies House: Registereintrag PPS Metal Recycling Ltd (07991359) Official register or notice
Checked against the official source on 28 Sep 2026 · Version 3 · Direct link
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16 Jun 2026 Samson Containers LtdContainer manufacturer ignores notices on welding fume and hearing protection – £30,000 €34,694
Despite improvement notices from September 2024 and February 2025, the manufacturer of skips and metal containers failed to implement any measures against carcinogenic welding fume (mild steel) – with neither extraction nor respiratory protection; in addition, there was no health surveillance for hearing for employees exposed to noise. Fine of £30,000 plus costs. According to the annual accounts filed with the UK companies register for financial year 2024, the company had around 17 employees.
Regulatory orders on hazardous substances have deadlines – companies that let them lapse will be prosecuted regardless of whether an accident occurs.
- Authority / court
- Warrington Magistrates' Court (Anklage: Health and Safety Executive)
- Area of law
- Health and safety and employment law · Workplace safety and accidents
- Legal basis
- Section 33(1)(g) Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 (Nichtbefolgung von Improvement Notices)
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Steel and metals
- Employees
- Under 50
- Repeat case
- yes
- Published
- 18 Jun 2026
Original amount 30,000 GBP, converted at the ECB reference rate of 16 Jun 2026.
- Skip manufacturer fined £30,000 after failing to protect workers from carcinogenic fumes (HSE) Press release of an authority
- Companies House: Registereintrag Samson Containers Limited (11911188) Official register or notice
Checked against the official source on 28 Sep 2026 · Version 3 · Direct link
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26 Feb 2026 All FAB Precision Sheetmetal, Inc.Sheet metal fabricator: second amputation on the same press brake – Cal/OSHA $212,850 €180,168
In June 2025, an employee in San Jose lost a finger on a press brake without guarding – identical to an accident in June 2024 for which the business had already been fined $43,500. The California Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) imposed $212,850 (including a wilful repeat violation); the employer appealed.
After an accident, retrofitting the machine is mandatory – an identical second accident will be treated as wilful.
- Authority / court
- California Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA)
- Area of law
- Health and safety and employment law · Workplace safety and accidents
- Legal basis
- California Code of Regulations, Title 8 (Maschinenschutz)
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- under appeal
- Sector
- Steel and metals
- Culpability
- intentional
- Repeat case
- yes
- Published
- 26 Feb 2026
Original amount 212,850 USD, converted at the ECB reference rate of 26 Feb 2026.
- Cal/OSHA cites San Jose sheet metal company more than $212,000 following amputation accident (DIR) Press release of an authority
Checked against the official source on 25 Sep 2026 · Direct link
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18 Feb 2026 Somers Forge LimitedSomers Forge: 750,000 GBP after fatal accident on a 20-metre lathe €859,697
In December 2023, a machinist was caught by a lathe and fatally injured while finishing a rotating workpiece with emery cloth. The forge had not prohibited manual work with emery cloth, had not prevented access to moving parts and had not carried out a risk assessment; the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) prosecution resulted in a fine of 750,000 GBP plus 38,314 GBP in costs. According to the annual accounts filed with the UK companies register for financial year 2025, the company had around 136 employees.
Expressly prohibit dangerous habitual practices on machine tools and safeguard against them with guarding and instruction.
Safe working on rotating machinery
- Authority / court
- Health and Safety Executive (Walsall Magistrates' Court)
- Area of law
- Health and safety and employment law · Workplace safety and accidents
- Legal basis
- Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974, s. 2(1)
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Steel and metals
- Employees
- 50 to 249
- Published
- 18 Feb 2026
Original amount 750,000 GBP, converted at the ECB reference rate of 18 Feb 2026.
- Forging company fined over death of employee entangled in lathe Press release of an authority
- Companies House: Registereintrag Somers Forge Limited (00468767) Official register or notice
Checked against the official source on 28 Sep 2026 · Version 3 · Direct link
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22 Jan 2026 Stanley Wire LimitedWire drawing company: fatal accident at unguarded machine – 140,000 GBP €160,514
In 2021 a 45-year-old employee in Penistone became entangled in an unguarded wire drawing and recoiling machine and died. There was no risk assessment, no safe system of work, no fixed guards or interlocks and no formal training, only verbal instruction; after the accident eight prohibition notices were served. Fine of 140,000 GBP plus 6,652 GBP in costs for the business, which had 17 employees according to its annual accounts.
Provide formal training and physical guarding rather than relying on verbal instruction – make dangerous moving parts technically inaccessible.
Machinery safety and formal instruction
Missing or inadequate training played a role in the decision.
- Authority / court
- Sheffield 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
- Steel and metals
- Employees
- Under 50
- Mitigating circumstances
- Early guilty plea
- Published
- 23 Jan 2026
Original amount 140,000 GBP, converted at the ECB reference rate of 22 Jan 2026.
- Company fined after operative receives fatal head injury at work (HSE) Press release of an authority
- Companies House: Registereintrag Stanley Wire Limited (12783585) Official register or notice
Checked against the official source on 28 Sep 2026 · Version 2 · Direct link
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5 Dec 2025 FMP West Midlands LimitedMetal polishing firm: fine after crush injury on unguarded tube polishing machine €27,501
While feeding a tube polishing machine that had no guarding and defective rollers, an employee's hand was drawn into the machine; one finger was partially severed and two others were crushed. The business had not prevented access to dangerous machine parts. Fine of £24,000 plus costs. According to the annual accounts filed with the UK companies register for financial year 2025, the company had around 16 employees.
In-running nips on rollers must be protected by fixed guards; defective machines must be taken out of service, not kept running.
- 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 11(1) Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Steel and metals
- Employees
- Under 50
- Published
- 8 Dec 2025
Original amount 24,000 GBP, converted at the ECB reference rate of 5 Dec 2025.
- Metal polishing company fined after employee's hand crushed in machinery (HSE) Press release of an authority
- Companies House: Registereintrag FMP (West Midlands) Limited (15228193) Official register or notice
Checked against the official source on 28 Sep 2026 · Version 3 · Direct link
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13 Oct 2025 Bridgnorth Aluminium LimitedAluminium rolling mill: hydraulic arm falls on worker in casting mould – 300,000 GBP €345,742
In 2023 a worker was kneeling in a casting mould when the hydraulic launder arm, weighing around 1.5 tonnes, fell on him as a result of hydraulic failure; he was trapped for more than 20 minutes and has not been able to return to work since. The safety bar was not fit for purpose and the risk of the arm falling had never been assessed; fine of 300,000 GBP plus 8,301 GBP in costs. According to its 2025 annual accounts, the plant had an average of 345 employees.
Do not work beneath raised loads – where this cannot be avoided, use tested mechanical fall-prevention devices.
- Authority / court
- Cannock 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
- Steel and metals
- Employees
- 250 to 999
- Published
- 20 Oct 2025
Original amount 300,000 GBP, converted at the ECB reference rate of 13 Oct 2025.
- Aluminium manufacturer fined £300,000 after worker crushed (HSE) Press release of an authority
- Companies House: Registereintrag Bridgnorth Aluminium Limited (04155640) Official register or notice
Checked against the official source on 28 Sep 2026 · Version 2 · Direct link
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24 Jul 2025 Metex Heat Treating Ltd.Heat treatment firm Metex: CA$144,000 after flash fire during furnace start-up €89,949
When restarting a hardening furnace (hydrogen and oil quench bath) that had been shut down for weeks, residual vapours ignited because too much time elapsed between the nitrogen purge and ignition; two workers were seriously injured. Only one was wearing flame-resistant clothing; the other had not been provided with any. Fine of CA$144,000 plus victim fine surcharge.
Infrequently performed tasks such as restarting equipment require fixed step-by-step procedures and complete protective equipment for everyone involved.
Start-up procedures for industrial furnaces; protective clothing
- Authority / court
- Ontario Court of Justice Brampton (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
- Section 25(2)(h) Occupational Health and Safety Act (Ontario)
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Steel and metals
- Mitigating circumstances
- Guilty plea.
- Published
- 21 Aug 2025
Original amount 144,000 CAD, converted at the ECB reference rate of 24 Jul 2025.
- Brampton Company Fined $144,000 After Furnace Explosion Injures Workers (Ontario Newsroom, Court Bulletin) Press release of an authority
Checked against the official source on 25 Sep 2026 · Direct link
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22 May 2025 Brunner Manufacturing & Sales Ltd. (Tecna Forge)Forge Tecna Forge: fatal fall during first-time press maintenance – CA$220,000 €140,306
In 2023, two employees of the forge in Niagara Falls removed a spacer from a press for the first time; instead of the guide bolts prescribed in the manual, they used makeshift steel bolts and left the piston assembly, weighing around 1.25 t, hanging from the crane. The load swung out, and a worker fell to the ground with it and died. The company had not informed the employees of the dangers of deviating from the operating manual; fine of CA$220,000 plus victim fine surcharge.
Maintenance tasks performed for the first time require instruction based on the manufacturer's manual – improvising with heavy loads ends in fatalities.
Working in accordance with the operating manual on infrequent maintenance tasks
Missing or inadequate training played a role in the decision.
- Authority / court
- Provincial Offences Court Welland (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
- Section 25(2)(d) Occupational Health and Safety Act (Ontario)
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Steel and metals
- Mitigating circumstances
- Guilty plea.
- Published
- 20 Jun 2025
Original amount 220,000 CAD, converted at the ECB reference rate of 22 May 2025.
- Niagara Falls Manufacturer Fined $220,000 Following Workplace Fatality (Ontario Newsroom, Court Bulletin) Press release of an authority
Checked against the official source on 25 Sep 2026 · Direct link
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12 May 2025 Fostermation Inc.Fostermation: USD 64,892 for child labour and machine guarding failures €58,430
After a 16-year-old lost a thumb tip on a forming machine at metal components maker Fostermation in Meadville (Pennsylvania) in May 2024, the Wage and Hour Division and OSHA found breaches of child labour regulations and six serious and one other health and safety violation, including missing machine guards and deficient lockout/tagout procedures. The company paid 50,192 USD in civil money penalties for the child labour violations and 14,700 USD under a settlement with OSHA, a total of 64,892 USD. The authority allegedly made the findings set out here; this account is not based on a final judgment.
Minors must not operate hazardous forming machines – work schedules for young workers need a separate check against prohibited tasks.
Deploying minors on hazardous machinery
- Authority / court
- U.S. Department of Labor – Wage and Hour Division (WHD) und Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
- Area of law
- Health and safety and employment law · Workplace safety and accidents
- Legal basis
- Bundesrechtliche Kinderarbeitsvorschriften (Vollzug durch die Wage and Hour Division); OSHA-Standards zu Maschinenschutz und Lockout/Tagout
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Steel and metals
- Published
- 12 May 2025
Original amount 64,892 USD, converted at the ECB reference rate of 12 May 2025.
Checked against the official source on 3 Oct 2026 · Direct link
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22 Nov 2024 Jindal Tubular USA LLCPipe mill Jindal Tubular: $442,815 settlement after fatal pipe collapse €425,293
In January 2024, insecurely stacked steel pipes weighing around 900 kg fell at the plant in Bay Saint Louis (Mississippi); a 25-year-old died and a 20-year-old lost both legs. In a settlement with the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), the manufacturer of large steel pipes is paying $442,815 and must implement external safety consultants, monthly audits, safety professionals on every shift and three years of accident reporting; there had been 46 OSHA citations in five years.
Storage of heavy steel products requires binding stacking rules and exclusion zones – and repeated citations lead to far-reaching conditions.
- Authority / court
- U.S. Department of Labor – Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
- Area of law
- Health and safety and employment law · Workplace safety and accidents
- Legal basis
- Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970; 29 CFR 1910 (Maschinenschutz, Absturzsicherung, brennbarer Staub u. a.)
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Steel and metals
- Employees
- 250 to 999
- Repeat case
- yes
- Published
- 22 Nov 2024
Original amount 442,815 USD, converted at the ECB reference rate of 22 Nov 2024.
Checked against the official source on 28 Sep 2026 · Version 2 · Direct link
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1 Nov 2024 United Steel LimitedUnited Steel: 330,000 NZD after fatal collapse of a steel storage rack €181,678
In November 2020 a rack loaded with around nine tonnes of steel collapsed at the company's steel store in Wigram (Christchurch), killing a storeman; the racks were neither braced nor fixed to the floor, were not inspected regularly and had been built without engineering input. On 1 November 2024 the Christchurch District Court imposed a fine of 330,000 NZD (starting point 600,000 NZD) and 100,000 NZD in reparation for emotional harm; costs of 17,507.39 NZD were added.
Storage racks need proper design, anchoring, regular inspection and supervised instruction in safe loading.
Safe storage racking and loading rules
Missing or inadequate training played a role in the decision.
- Authority / court
- Christchurch 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
- final
- Sector
- Steel and metals
- Repeat case
- no
- Mitigating circumstances
- Reductions for cooperation (5%), remorse including payments already made to the family (10%), willingness to pay reparation (10%), guilty plea (15%) and no previous convictions in 43 years of trading (5%).
- Published
- 11 Nov 2024
Original amount 330,000 NZD, converted at the ECB reference rate of 1 Nov 2024.
- WorkSafe New Zealand: Storeman killed in racking collapse (11.11.2024) Press release of an authority
- WorkSafe New Zealand, Court summaries: United Steel Limited Enforcement database of an authority
- WorkSafe New Zealand v United Steel Limited [2024] NZDC 27062, Sentencing notes Court decision
Checked against the official source on 3 Oct 2026 · Direct link
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23 Jul 2024 an Australian steel processorAustralian steel processor: 92,000 AUD after three serious hand injuries on bending machines €56,111
The Gippsland steel processor (since renamed) was fined a total of 92,000 AUD (20,000, 32,000 and 40,000 AUD) by the Magistrates' Court in Latrobe after pleading guilty to three charges, and must also pay 15,836 AUD in costs. Between November 2020 and February 2023, three workers suffered serious hand injuries on machines used to bend and roll steel. Among other things, there was no additional activation safeguard besides the foot pedal, no supervision of an inexperienced operator and no working emergency stops and lockouts.
Machines with crushing hazards need working safeguards, regular maintenance and supervision of workers not yet deemed competent.
Machine safety and supervision on bending and rolling machines
- Authority / court
- WorkSafe Victoria
- Area of law
- Health and safety and employment law · Workplace safety and accidents
- Legal basis
- Occupational Health and Safety Act 2004 (Vic): sichere Anlagen, Aufsicht, sichere Arbeitssysteme
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Steel and metals
- Mitigating circumstances
- Guilty plea.
- Published
- 1 Aug 2024
Original amount 92,000 AUD, converted at the ECB reference rate of 23 Jul 2024.
- WorkSafe Victoria, Veröffentlichung der Behörde (Entscheidung 2024) Decision of an authority
Checked against the official source on 7 Oct 2026 · Company name anonymised since 23 Jul 2026 · Direct link
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26 Feb 2024 a Canadian steel producerSteel producer: CA$200,000 after fatal conveyor accident involving a lone worker €136,295
A coal worker working alone at the company's steelworks was presumably applying belt dressing spray between the running belt and the head pulley when he was fatally caught; the head section of the conveyor was not guarded, and there was no safe method for applying the spray while the belt was running. Fine of CA$200,000 plus victim fine surcharge.
Where employees have to intervene while equipment is running, a safe technical solution is needed – and lone working requires a monitoring concept.
No intervention in running conveyor systems; lone working
- Authority / court
- Ontario Court of Justice Hamilton (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
- Section 25(1)(c) Occupational Health and Safety Act (Ontario) i. V. m. s. 196(2)(a) O. Reg. 854 (Mines and Mining Plants)
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Steel and metals
- Mitigating circumstances
- Guilty plea; subsequently improved rules on lone working and machine guarding across the entire operation.
- Published
- 6 Mar 2024
Original amount 200,000 CAD, converted at the ECB reference rate of 26 Feb 2024.
- Ontario Ministry of Labour, Meldungen (Übersicht) (Entscheidung 2024) Press release of an authority
Checked against the official source on 28 Sep 2026 · Version 4 · Company name anonymised since 26 Feb 2026 · Direct link
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20 Feb 2024 a US steel fabrication businessSteel fabricator: OSHA proposes $348,683 over alleged deficiencies despite warning from its own consultant €322,795
According to the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), inspectors responding to a complaint found at a family-run steel fabrication business in New Jersey, among other things, missing medical evaluations for respirator users, uninspected overhead cranes, incorrectly used welding screens and missing chemical hazard training; according to OSHA, a safety consultant had identified the deficiencies months earlier. OSHA proposed penalties of $348,683 (4 violations classified as wilful, 7 as serious); the violations are alleged, and the company has contested the citations.
A consultant's report identifying known deficiencies that is not acted upon will later serve as evidence of wilfulness.
Hazardous substance training for new employees
Missing or inadequate training played a role in the decision.
- Authority / court
- U.S. Department of Labor – Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
- Area of law
- Health and safety and employment law · Workplace safety and accidents
- Legal basis
- 29 CFR 1910.134, 1910.179, 1910.1200 u. a.
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- under appeal
- Sector
- Steel and metals
- Culpability
- intentional
- Published
- 20 Feb 2024
Original amount 348,683 USD, converted at the ECB reference rate of 20 Feb 2024.
- OSHA, Pressemitteilungen (Übersicht) (Entscheidung 2024) Press release of an authority
Checked against the official source on 28 Sep 2026 · Version 5 · Company name anonymised since 20 Feb 2026 · Direct link