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A toddler died after being hit by a tractor in Devon

Toddler dies following incident involving tractor

UK theme parks and fairgrounds face major health and safety checks after high speed incidents - list of rides

Extra safety checks on 100 fairground and theme park rides across UK

Prospect members on a picket line (Photo: Prospect)

Civil servants union strikes: Two strike days announced

Thirty-three people were injured when the RV Petrel tipped over while in dry dock at Leith. Picture: Andrew O'Brien.

Cranes at work to right toppled Leith ship

Leith Docks Major Incident: Fourteen people still in hospital after ship toppled in dry dock

Leith Docks: 11 people remain in hospital after ship tipped on side

Mullberry Homes received a series of Improvement and Prohibition Notices because of their unsafe work standards, but repeatedly failed to comply.

House builder fined £117,000 for multiple safety failings

No charges over massive Ayr gas blast

Dyson was founded by inventor Sir James Dyson, now a billionaire and one of the UK's wealthiest men

Dyson fined £1.2 million over crushed worker

As a heatwave hits the UK, here is what the law says about working in extreme temperatures (Getty Images)

How hot is too hot to work? UK heatwave and workers' rights

Rosyth Dockyard.

Police probe as worker, 23, dies after being injured at Rosyth Dockyard

Fife Ethylene Plant, Mossmorran

Mossmorran: UK safety watchdog seeks prosecution of hydrocarbon leaks at Fife pl...

Images sent to the Evening News this morning show a lack of social distancing between workers on site

No social distancing seen at Edinburgh St James following Covid-19 outbreak

PPE: West Lothian Council leader Lawrence Fitzpatrick

West Lothian Council brings in new PPE policy for staff

An explosion at a water treatment works in Bristol has killed four people - here...

Halfords offers free car check and discounts for teachers, emergency workers and...

These driving test centres are reopening their waiting rooms as DVSA eases restr...

Lee Dumayne, 50, was struck by falling masonry on Dalry Road, Edinburgh

Mum who faced death demands investigation be reopened

Burbage Primary School in Buxton, Derbyshire closed earlier this week - and schools across the UK could close for over two months in the event of a global pandemic (Getty Images)

UK schools could close for two months in the event of coronavirus pandemic

Amazon has opened its first ever supermarket - and you don’t have to go through ...

More than 600 workers have been seriously injured in Amazon UK warehouses

Shock as second man dies of Legionnaires’ disease