Prosecutions

DB Cargo (UK) Ltd has today been convicted after a four-week trial of one offence under the Health and Safety at Work etc Act, following a prosecution by the Office of Rail and Road (ORR).

Kier Infrastructure was today fined £600,000 after being convicted of one offence under the Health and Safety at Work etc Act.

Kier Infrastructure today pleaded guilty to one offence under the Health and Safety at Work etc Act at Newport Magistrates' Court.

South Devon Railway Trust has today been fined £40,000 by Newton Abbot Magistrates' Court after they admitted putting passengers at risk by failing to adequately bar entry to a toilet cubicle which was missing its floor.

Network Rail was today found guilty of one offence under the Health and Safety at Work Act.

BAM Nuttall and McNealy Brown were fined £900,000 and £65,000 respectively after they admitted failing to put proper procedures and safeguards in place to prevent painter Paul Welstead falling through a ceiling into a passenger waiting room.

Network Rail Infrastructure Limited has today been fined £733,000 at Bristol Crown Court for failing to undertake adequate maintenance to prevent the derailment of a freight train near Gloucester in October 2013.

Engineering company, Babcock Rail Limited, has today been fined £400,000 for breaching of health and safety laws which led to a rail worker suffering injuries while renewing rail track in Flintshire, north-east Wales, two years ago. This follows a prosecution brought by the Office of Rail and Road (ORR).

A qualified train driver, Andrew McKenna, was fined £2000 by the Birmingham Magistrates Court today and ordered to pay costs of £1,581.87 for failing to follow safety rules while driving a locomotive in April 2012 on the West Coast Main Line (WCML). Mr McKenna has pleaded guilty to a prosecution brought by the Office of Rail and Road (ORR) for a breach of health and safety law.