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Who was sanctioned, and for what?
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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Where?
by authority- HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) / Export Control Joint Unit €7.48m 72 % · 1 case
- Grimsby Magistrates' Court (Anklage: Health and Safety Executive) €694,300 7 % · 1 case
- Stirling Sheriff Court (Ermittlung: Health and Safety Executive) €687,364 7 % · 1 case
- Birmingham Magistrates' Court (Anklage: Health and Safety Executive) €587,773 6 % · 2 cases
- Hamilton Sheriff Court (Ermittlung: Health and Safety Executive) €496,828 5 % · 1 case
- Bournemouth Crown Court (Anklage: Office for Product Safety and Standards (OPSS), Department for Business and Trade) €368,909 4 % · 1 case
- Leeds Magistrates' Court (Anklage: Health and Safety Executive) €18,494 0 % · 1 case
- Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) – 0 % · 2 cases
What for?
by area of lawAll areas of law
Who?
by company- Airbus Operations Limited €7.48m 72 % · 1 case
- Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy Ltd €694,300 7 % · 1 case
- O-I Glass Limited €687,364 7 % · 1 case
- Multi Packaging Solutions UK Limited €496,828 5 % · 1 case
- Sunseeker International Limited €368,909 4 % · 1 case
- Emma Bridgewater Limited €311,752 3 % · 1 case
- Northwood Consumer Limited (heute NP Birmingham Limited) €276,021 3 % · 1 case
- Commercial Lines Limited (HLN Supplies) €18,494 0 % · 1 case
- Anonymised companies – 0 % · 1 case
- Safran S.A. – 0 % · 1 case
When?
per year, by date of decision| Period | Cases | Total |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 2 | €368,909 |
| 2025 | 3 | €963,385 |
| 2026 | 5 | €9m |
10 cases
30 Jul 2026 Airbus Operations LimitedAirbus Operations pays 6.4 million GBP for export control breaches in technology transfer €7.48m
Over an extended period before November 2022, Airbus Operations Ltd breached the Export Control Order 2008: transfers of controlled technology under three open general export licences (OGEL) were not correctly documented, required registers were missing, and one individual licence was not complied with. The case came to light through voluntary disclosure and was concluded by HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) by way of a compound settlement (date of publication).
Technology transfers by e-mail or data room are also exports – conditions, registers and records of general licences must be put into practice day to day.
Licence conditions and record-keeping obligations in technology transfer
- Authority / court
- HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) / Export Control Joint Unit
- Area of law
- Sanctions and export control · Export control and dual-use goods
- Legal basis
- Export Control Order 2008, Art. 29(2) und 29(3) (Auflagen und Register bei OGELs) sowie Auflage einer SIEL; Straftaten nach Art. 38(1)(a) und (b); Compound Settlement durch HMRC
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Manufacturing and mechanical engineering
- Employees
- 10,000 or more
- Mitigating circumstances
- Voluntary disclosure, full cooperation, remedial measures
- Published
- 30 Jul 2026
Original amount 6,409,388 GBP, converted at the ECB reference rate of 30 Jul 2026.
- Notice to exporters 2026/17: company named in compound settlement for breaches of export control Press release of an authority
Checked against the official source on 25 Sep 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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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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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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17 Jun 2025 Safran S.A.Safran/Collins: clearance only in exchange for sale of actuation businesses Order
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) found that Safran’s acquisition of part of the actuation and flight control business of Collins Aerospace (RTX) would result in a substantial lessening of competition in horizontal stabiliser trim actuators. Clearance was granted only in return for the undertaking to divest Safran’s North American actuation business, including sites in Mexico, California and Canada, to a pre-approved purchaser (Woodward).
In acquisitions in concentrated supply markets, prepare remedies including a buyer early – here the CMA required an upfront buyer.
- Authority / court
- Competition and Markets Authority (CMA)
- Area of law
- Competition law · Merger control
- Legal basis
- Enterprise Act 2002, s. 73 (Undertakings in lieu of reference)
- Action
- Order
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Manufacturing and mechanical engineering
- Employees
- 10,000 or more
- Published
- 23 Jun 2025
- CMA case page: Safran / Collins merger inquiry Official register or notice
- CMA: Decision on acceptance of undertakings in lieu of reference (ME/7081/23) Decision of an authority
Checked against the official source on 25 Sep 2026 · Direct link
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22 Nov 2024 Sunseeker International LimitedSunseeker: 240,000 GBP fine and confiscation over Myanmar teak without due diligence €368,909
Between April 2021 and July 2022, the yacht builder imported eleven consignments of timber from the EU, including teak from Myanmar, without being able to demonstrate that the risk of illegal logging was negligible; its due diligence system was not maintained and documents were missing. Following a guilty plea, the Bournemouth Crown Court imposed a fine of 240,000 GBP and a confiscation of 66,950.64 GBP (plus costs of 51,619.96 GBP).
For timber from high-risk countries such as Myanmar, the risk can practically never be reduced to a negligible level – purchasing and design should switch to alternatives.
Due diligence for high-risk timber (Myanmar teak)
- Authority / court
- Bournemouth Crown Court (Anklage: Office for Product Safety and Standards (OPSS), Department for Business and Trade)
- Area of law
- Supply chain and human rights · Supply chain due diligence
- Legal basis
- Timber and Timber Products (Placing on the Market) Regulations 2013, Regulations 4(b), 4(c), 4(d)/4(e); Proceeds of Crime Act 2002
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Manufacturing and mechanical engineering
Original amount 306,950.64 GBP, converted at the ECB reference rate of 22 Nov 2024.
- OPSS enforcement actions 1 October 2024 to 31 March 2025 Enforcement database of an authority
Checked against the official source on 28 Sep 2026 · Version 2 · Direct link
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9 Aug 2024 a UK boiler manufacturerCMA: boiler manufacturer changes marketing of hydrogen-blend-ready boilers Other
The CMA was concerned that the manufacturer, by promoting the ability of its gas boilers to run on a blend of up to 20% hydrogen, gave the impression of an environmental benefit or of future-proofing consumers' heating. The company gave formal undertakings to change or remove such marketing claims, inform its installers and retailers and report to the CMA on compliance; it did not admit any breach of the law.
Environmental claims must reflect the actual benefit to consumers today – a technical option is not yet a climate benefit.
Environmental marketing claims (greenwashing)
- Authority / court
- Competition and Markets Authority (CMA)
- Area of law
- Environment and sustainability · Misleading environmental and sustainability claims
- Legal basis
- Part 8 Enterprise Act 2002 (Undertakings nach section 219); Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 2008
- Action
- Other
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Manufacturing and mechanical engineering
- Published
- 9 Aug 2024
- CMA, Fälle (Übersicht) (Entscheidung 2024) Enforcement database of an authority
Checked against the official source on 3 Oct 2026 · Company name anonymised since 9 Aug 2026 · Direct link