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LATEST NEWS & EVENTS Recycling firm fined after accident at work  A £17,000 fine for a recycling firm highlights how an accident at work solicitor can be called in when companies fail to change unsafe processes after an incident. Environcom England Ltd was prosecuted after a worker was injured by a falling stack of cookers and washing machines at the company's Grantham site. The Polish agency worker suffered bruising to his back and chest as a result of the incident in 2009. A Health and Safety Executive (HSE) inspector later found that the company was still stacking appliances dangerously three months after the incident. After pleading guilty to two counts of breaching health and safety rules, the firm was fined a total of £17,000. HSE inspector Judith McNulty-Green said the worker had been very lucky to escape more serious injury. "Heavy machines like cookers and washers should never have been stacked so high," she added. "If they had been stacked on their side it would have provided a broader and more stable base and stacking them against a wall would also have given much more stability." In 2009/10, there were over 120,000 injuries to employees reported under RIDDOR, the regulations under which a company must notify the authorities of an accident. Posted by Georgina Price 
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