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LATEST NEWS & EVENTS Lancashire couple prosecuted after work injuries  Personal injury claims can be often considered following work-based injuries and now a Lancashire couple has been prosecuted after 21-year-old employee Simon Davies was seriously injured twice in less than two months. Mr Davie was working for Village Pine on Newchurch Road, Bacup and was cutting a small groove into a pine door on 13 July 2009 when it shot out of the machine, cutting his left hand on a rotating blade, removing a large part of his nail and breaking his bone. The couple who run the business, Kenneth Bramhall, 51, and Gill Brown, 65, both pleaded guilty to breaching Regulations 9(1) and 12 of the Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998, while also being handed a £6,000 fine each. Michael Mullen, the investigating inspector at the Health and Safety Executive, said: "We had no other choice but to prosecute following the second incident, which could easily have been prevented." Furthermore, fairground ride owner Michael Searle from Essex and Michael Rodgers from Leicestershire were fined £3,000 each last week after two members of the public were thrown from a ride that they authorised at Silverstone, Buckinghamshire. Posted by Gaby Hamerton 
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