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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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Where?
by authority- Lincoln Magistrates' Court (Anklage: Health and Safety Executive) €804,320 32 % · 1 case
- Birmingham Magistrates' Court (Anklage: Health and Safety Executive) €691,518 27 % · 1 case
- Environment Agency €483,564 19 % · 1 case
- Peterborough Magistrates' Court (Anklage: Health and Safety Executive) €153,837 6 % · 1 case
- Health and Safety Executive (Milton Keynes Magistrates' Court) €141,014 6 % · 1 case
- Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) €80,815 3 % · 1 case
- Health and Safety Executive (Aberdeen Sheriff Court) €61,335 2 % · 1 case
- Airdrie Sheriff Court (Ermittlungen: SEPA, Anklage: Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service) €58,610 2 % · 1 case
- Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) €29,885 1 % · 2 cases
- Employment Tribunal €23,018 1 % · 1 case
- 1 more€18,635
What for?
by area of lawAll areas of law
Who?
by company- Anonymised companies €1.32m 52 % · 3 cases
- Samworth Brothers Limited €691,518 27 % · 1 case
- MM Flowers Limited €153,837 6 % · 1 case
- Puratos Limited €141,014 6 % · 1 case
- Scottish Sea Farms Limited €80,815 3 % · 1 case
- Duncan Farms Limited €61,335 2 % · 1 case
- Devro (Scotland) Limited €58,610 2 % · 1 case
- Gate Gourmet €23,018 1 % · 1 case
- Manor Farm Dairy Ltd €18,635 1 % · 1 case
- Greencore Group plc – 0 % · 1 case
When?
per year, by date of decision| Period | Cases | Total |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 1 | €804,320 |
| 2024 | 2 | €513,449 |
| 2025 | 4 | €100,263 |
| 2026 | 5 | €1.13m |
12 cases
4 Sep 2026 Samworth Brothers LimitedSamworth Brothers: £594,000 after two workers scalded at steam line €691,518
At the Kettleby Foods plant in Melton Mowbray, an employee and a contractor were scalded with hot water while replacing a leaking gasket on an isolation valve of a steam line (burns to 4–5 % and 9 % of their body surface respectively). The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) found that the task had neither been assessed nor documented as a safe system of work, isolation and lock-off procedures had not been applied, fall protection was missing and supervision was inadequate. Following a guilty plea, a fine of £594,000, plus £6,000 compensation for the injured employee, costs and a victim surcharge.
Maintenance on steam and pressure lines requires a written isolation and lock-off procedure that is supervised on site.
Isolating and locking off equipment during maintenance (lockout/tagout)
- 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 Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Food and agriculture
- Published
- 16 Sep 2026
Original amount 594,000 GBP, converted at the ECB reference rate of 4 Sep 2026.
- Food manufacturing giant fined £594,000 after two workers scalded at Melton Mowbray site (HSE) Press release of an authority
Checked against the official source on 25 Sep 2026 · Direct link
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17 Jul 2026 Puratos LimitedPuratos: 120,000 GBP for flour dust above exposure limits and heavy sack handling €141,014
During an inspection in December 2024, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) found dust escaping from machinery, blowing down with compressed air and dry sweeping at the bakery ingredients factory; measurements confirmed that workplace exposure limits had been exceeded, with a risk of asthma. In addition, employees lifted 25 kg sacks by hand every day. The site had already been cited in 2021 for the same deficiencies; fine of 120,000 GBP plus 6,270 GBP in costs. According to the annual accounts filed with the UK companies register for financial year 2024, the company had around 116 employees.
Companies that do not permanently remedy deficiencies after a citation pay significantly more the next time – flour dust is a recognised cause of asthma.
Dust exposure and lifting heavy loads
- Authority / court
- Health and Safety Executive (Milton Keynes 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
- Food and agriculture
- Employees
- 50 to 249
- Repeat case
- yes
- Published
- 20 Jul 2026
Original amount 120,000 GBP, converted at the ECB reference rate of 17 Jul 2026.
- Food manufacturer fined £120,000 after workers exposed to hazardous dust and manual handling risks Press release of an authority
- Companies House: Registereintrag Puratos Limited (00949175) Official register or notice
Checked against the official source on 28 Sep 2026 · Version 3 · Direct link
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27 May 2026 Scottish Sea Farms LimitedScottish Sea Farms: £70,000 civil penalties over missing F-gas leak detection €80,815
Scotland's environmental regulator SEPA imposed two civil penalties of £35,000 each (£70,000 in total) on salmon processor Scottish Sea Farms. Two ice plants at the Gremista site in Lerwick (Shetland) contained fluorinated greenhouse gases above the threshold of 500 tonnes of CO2 equivalent but had no working leak detection system.
Large refrigeration systems need working leak detection; its absence is penalised even without a proven leak.
Obligations for refrigeration equipment containing fluorinated gases
- Authority / court
- Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA)
- Area of law
- Environment and sustainability · Emissions and permits
- Legal basis
- Fluorinated Greenhouse Gases Regulations 2015; Verordnung (EU) Nr. 517/2014
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Food and agriculture
- Mitigating circumstances
- The company has since brought the equipment into compliance.
- Published
- 27 May 2026
Original amount 70,000 GBP, converted at the ECB reference rate of 27 May 2026.
- SEPA: Salmon processor fined £70,000 over fluorinated greenhouse gas rule breaches (27.05.2026) Press release of an authority
Checked against the official source on 3 Oct 2026 · Direct link
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7 May 2026 Duncan Farms LimitedDuncan Farms: 53,000 GBP because a worker was caught in an unguarded conveyor €61,335
In October 2024, an employee of the egg producer climbed between two running manure conveyors to check a noise and was caught at the in-running nip; he suffered nerve damage to both arms. The drive had no fixed or interlocked guards – instruction and clothing rules alone were not sufficient. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) prosecution resulted in a fine of 53,000 GBP.
Instruction is no substitute for technical safeguards: in-running nips must be protected by fixed or interlocked guards.
Stopping machinery before intervening
- Authority / court
- Health and Safety Executive (Aberdeen Sheriff Court)
- Area of law
- Health and safety and employment law · Workplace safety and accidents
- Legal basis
- Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998, reg. 11(1) und (2); Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974, s. 33(1)(c)
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Food and agriculture
- Published
- 13 May 2026
Original amount 53,000 GBP, converted at the ECB reference rate of 7 May 2026.
- Egg farm fined after worker trapped in running conveyor machinery Press release of an authority
Checked against the official source on 25 Sep 2026 · Direct link
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10 Apr 2026 MM Flowers LimitedFlower supplier: leg amputated after roller deck accident – 134,000 GBP €153,837
While unloading stuck air cargo skids ahead of Valentine's Day 2023, an employee's leg became trapped in a 10 cm gap in the roller deck and was struck by a skid that slid forward; the leg had to be amputated. Employees had to free stuck loads by hand, and the gap had never been identified; fine of 134,000 GBP plus 4,908 GBP in costs. According to its annual accounts (financial year to August 2025), the flower supplier had an average of 882 employees.
Include everyday tasks such as freeing stuck loads in the risk assessment – especially for peak periods.
- Authority / court
- Peterborough 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
- Food and agriculture
- Employees
- 250 to 999
- Published
- 13 Apr 2026
Original amount 134,000 GBP, converted at the ECB reference rate of 10 Apr 2026.
- 'At one point I was genuinely terrified I was going to bleed out and die' (HSE) Press release of an authority
- Companies House: Registereintrag MM Flowers Limited (05697954) Official register or notice
Checked against the official source on 28 Sep 2026 · Version 2 · Direct link
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17 Dec 2025 Greencore Group plcGreencore/Bakkavor: takeover only with sale of sauce plant in Bristol Order
In the planned acquisition of the food manufacturer Bakkavor, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) found a substantial lessening of competition in chilled own-label sauces for UK supermarkets. It cleared the merger only because Greencore undertook to sell its entire chilled soups and sauces plant in Bristol, including its employees, to a pre-determined purchaser.
Even overlaps in small product segments can hold up an entire acquisition – prepare remedies early.
- Authority / court
- Competition and Markets Authority (CMA)
- Area of law
- Competition law · Merger control
- Legal basis
- Enterprise Act 2002, s. 73(2) (Undertakings in lieu of reference)
- Action
- Order
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Food and agriculture
- Published
- 18 Dec 2025
- CMA case page: Greencore / Bakkavor merger inquiry Official register or notice
- CMA: Decision on acceptance of undertakings in lieu of reference (ME/2257/25), 17.12.2025 Decision of an authority
Checked against the official source on 25 Sep 2026 · Direct link
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11 Nov 2025 Devro (Scotland) LimitedDevro (Scotland): 48,000 GBP fine for discharging industrial wastewater into burn €58,610
In July 2021, a blockage in the foul sewer at the Moodiesburn plant (collagen casings for sausages) caused untreated industrial wastewater to back up into the surface water system, polluting the Bothlin Burn with ammonia and organic load. The company pleaded guilty on 11 November 2025; on 24 March 2026, the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) reported a fine of 48,000 GBP plus a 3,600 GBP victim surcharge. According to the annual accounts filed with the UK companies register for financial year 2024, the company had around 316 employees.
On-site drainage needs monitoring and maintenance so that faults in the foul sewer do not reach watercourses via surface water pipes.
- Authority / court
- Airdrie Sheriff Court (Ermittlungen: SEPA, Anklage: Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service)
- Area of law
- Environment and sustainability · Emissions and permits
- Legal basis
- Regulations 4 und 44(1)(a) Water Environment (Controlled Activities) (Scotland) Regulations 2011; Section 20(3)(a) Water Environment and Water Services (Scotland) Act 2003
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Food and agriculture
- Employees
- 250 to 999
- Published
- 24 Mar 2026
Original amount 51,600 GBP, converted at the ECB reference rate of 11 Nov 2025.
- Sausage casing firm fined £48,000 for polluting North Lanarkshire burn with industrial effluent Press release of an authority
- Companies House: Registereintrag Devro (Scotland) Limited (SC129787) Official register or notice
Checked against the official source on 28 Sep 2026 · Version 3 · Direct link
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22 Oct 2025 Gate GourmetTribunal: Gate Gourmet files no response – £20,000 to whistleblower €23,018
Because Gate Gourmet failed to file a response to the claim despite repeated requests, the Manchester Employment Tribunal found that there had been detriment on grounds of a protected disclosure and in January 2026 awarded £15,000 for loss of earnings and £5,000 for injury to feelings. An application for reconsideration, based on an email inbox that was no longer monitored, was refused.
Correspondence from authorities and courts must go to monitored addresses – missed deadlines turn a defensible claim into a default judgment.
Managing deadlines and incoming mail in litigation
- Authority / court
- Employment Tribunal
- Area of law
- Whistleblower protection · Retaliation against whistleblowers
- Legal basis
- Employment Rights Act 1996, s. 47B (Benachteiligung wegen geschützter Offenlegung); Employment Tribunal Procedure Rules 2024, Rule 22
- Action
- Other
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Food and agriculture
- Published
- 7 Jan 2026
Original amount 20,000 GBP, converted at the ECB reference rate of 22 Oct 2025.
Checked against the official source on 28 Sep 2026 · Version 2 · Direct link
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8 Oct 2025 Manor Farm Dairy LtdManor Farm Dairy: fine after slurry overflow into stream near Dorchester €18,635
In March 2024, cattle slurry ran from the dairy farm's lagoons into a stream, seriously damaging it over more than 2 km, with effects up to 4.5 km downstream. The court imposed a fine of 6,000 GBP (reduced from 9,000 GBP because of an early guilty plea) and 10,158.50 GBP in costs; the Environment Agency described the incident as avoidable. The company is a micro-enterprise with fewer than 10 employees.
Farms must maintain sufficient slurry storage capacity and monitor lagoons.
- Authority / court
- Taunton Magistrates' Court (Anklage: Environment Agency)
- Area of law
- Environment and sustainability · Emissions and permits
- Legal basis
- Regulations 12(1)(b) und 38(1)(a) Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2016
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Food and agriculture
- Employees
- Under 50
- Culpability
- negligent
- Mitigating circumstances
- Early guilty plea (fine reduced from 9,000 to 6,000 GBP).
- Published
- 13 Oct 2025
Original amount 16,158.5 GBP, converted at the ECB reference rate of 8 Oct 2025.
- Manor Farm Dairy in Dorset fined for slurry polluting river Press release of an authority
Checked against the official source on 28 Sep 2026 · Version 3 · Direct link
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25 Sep 2024 a French sugar group and its UK subsidiaryCMA: GBP 25,000 fine for sugar group over incomplete response in merger review €29,885
In the in-depth review of a merger with another sugar business, the group provided only part of the board minutes and internal governance documents requested under a formal notice under section 109 of the Enterprise Act 2002, because, in the CMA's view, it read the scope of the notice in an untenably narrow way. The CMA imposed a fine of GBP 25,000; the statutory maximum at the time was GBP 30,000.
Answer information requests in merger control in full rather than on your own narrow reading – under the DMCCA the maximum penalty rises from GBP 30,000 to up to 1% of worldwide turnover.
Responding fully to formal information requests from authorities
- Authority / court
- Competition and Markets Authority (CMA)
- Area of law
- Competition law · Merger control
- Legal basis
- section 110 Enterprise Act 2002 (Nichtbefolgung eines Auskunftsverlangens nach section 109)
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Food and agriculture
- Published
- 26 Sep 2024
Original amount 25,000 GBP, converted at the ECB reference rate of 25 Sep 2024.
- CMA, Fälle (Übersicht) (Entscheidung 2024) Enforcement database of an authority
Checked against the official source on 3 Oct 2026 · Company name anonymised since 25 Sep 2026 · Direct link
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15 Aug 2024 a British beer importerBeer importer: £414,003.54 over breach of packaging rules €483,564
The beer importer paid £414,003.54 to an environmental charity under an enforcement undertaking and covered the agency's costs. Since 2004 the company had not registered as a packaging producer and had therefore not contributed to the recovery of its packaging waste. The amount corresponds to the costs avoided plus a 30 per cent surcharge.
Importers should check whether they must register as packaging producers; ignorance does not prevent repayment plus a surcharge.
Registration duties under extended producer responsibility for packaging
- Authority / court
- Environment Agency
- Area of law
- Environment and sustainability · Waste and hazardous substances
- Legal basis
- Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) Regulations
- Action
- Other
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Food and agriculture
- Mitigating circumstances
- The company said it had been unaware of the regulations, offered the payment itself and is now compliant.
- Published
- 15 Aug 2024
Original amount 414,003.54 GBP, converted at the ECB reference rate of 15 Aug 2024.
- Environment Agency, Behördenauftritt (Übersicht) (Entscheidung 2024) Press release of an authority
Checked against the official source on 3 Oct 2026 · Company name anonymised since 15 Aug 2026 · Direct link
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22 Nov 2023 a British food manufacturerFood manufacturer: £700,000 after finger amputation while cleaning a machine €804,320
An employee lost two fingers when his hand was drawn into a rotary valve while he was removing a piece of string from a chute on a breading line. The HSE criticised missing guarding, an inadequate risk assessment and inadequate training. Fine of £700,000 plus costs.
Cleaning and fault clearance are high-risk activities – guarding and training must cover precisely these situations.
Safe cleaning of machinery only when stopped
Missing or inadequate training played a role in the decision.
- Authority / court
- Lincoln 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 11(1) Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Food and agriculture
- Employees
- 1,000 to 9,999
- Published
- 22 Nov 2023
Original amount 700,000 GBP, converted at the ECB reference rate of 22 Nov 2023.
- HSE, Pressemitteilungen (Übersicht) (Entscheidung 2023) Press release of an authority
Checked against the official source on 28 Sep 2026 · Version 4 · Company name anonymised since 22 Nov 2025 · Direct link