Travis Perkins fined £2 million after load fell and killed driver
A court has fined builders’ merchant Travis Perkins £2 million after part of a timber load fell from one of its lorries, striking the windscreen of an oncoming car and…
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Category: Accidents in constuction
Timber frame company fined after worker loses three fingers
A timber frame company has been fined after an employee, David Broadway, 36, had three fingers severed by a panel saw at work. The incident occurred at Pemberton Timber Frame…
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EE Renewables Fined £120,000 After Worker’s Fall from Roof
A 23-year-old worker sustained a broken femur after falling four metres from a roof on Sherfield English Road while working for EE Renewables Limited on 16 December 2022 the firm…
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£1.6m fine after 24 year old lost life in accident
Tragic Fatality of Jack Phillips Highlights Failures in Workplace SafetyOn 8 August 2019, Jack Phillips tragically lost his life while working for Brand Energy and Infrastructure Services UK Ltd on…
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Scaffolder hit by 2 tonne weight at nuclear plant
Scaffolder Colin Dell, 62, suffered life-changing injuries while working near the main cooling water discharge valves at a site in Kent on 13 June 2022. Dell was conducting scaffolding work…
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A builder was left paralyzed and stranded on floor for six hours
A builder was left paralyzed from the chest down after falling through a ceiling at a housing site in Derbyshire. Father-of-three Andrew Clifford lay face down on the floor for…
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Balfour Beatty fined £2.8m after worker loses life on scissor lift
After the tragic incident where a worker lost his lift Balfour Beatty was fined £285,000 after a 62-year-old worker fell 10 metres to his death during construction of a new…
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Driver dies after being crushed by concrete blocks
A driver was crushed to death by falling concrete blocks at a construction site in South Lanarkshire the house builder was fined £333,000 after being found guilty. The driver Conor…
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TATA chemicals fined after scaffolders death
Tata Chemicals Europe Limited has been fined after a young father Michael Densmore died following an incident while erecting a scaffold tower in a chemical plant in Northwich. Michael Densmore,…
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Untrained worker suffers electrical burns from live cable
In a horrific accident a worker who was untrained in electrical works suffered burns to his face and body after the crowbar he was using came into contact with a…
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