Company fined £1.5m after electrician died after 8m fall
An electrician died in fall of approximately eight metres when an access panel on the raised walkway of an overhead crane gave way beneath him the firm has been fined…
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Category: Accidents in constuction
Scaffolding firm fined £50,0000 after worker seriously injured
A scaffolding company based in Ipswich Suffolk has been ordered to pay out more than £500,000 after a worker was left with a life-changing injury in an accident at the site….
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Unpaid worker falls 5m through fragile roof
A roofing firm has been sentenced after a young unpaid work experience worker fell through a skylight during the renovation of an old asbestos cement roof, at an industrial building…
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Firm fined after worker falls from mobile tower and dies
A construction company has been fined after an employee died as a result of falling from a mobile tower while helping to lift and level a steel beam. Cambridge Magistrates…
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A contractor and a water management company have both been fined £30,000 and costs £17,452.22 and a victim surcharge of £120 after a worker was injured when he was hit…
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Worker shocked after hitting cable installing ANPR camera
A construction firm company and its groundworks contractor have been fined after unsafe excavation work left a worker with serious burns to his hand and arm after striking a cable…
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Security guard dies from hypothermia at wind farm two firms fined
A security guard died after succumbing to freezing temperatures while working at a remote hillside in Ayrshire two companies have been fined following an incident. Ayr Sheriff Court heard that…
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Apprentice painter blinded by PVC hoarding
An apprentice has lost the sight in his right eye after he was injured when helping with a PVC hoarding the Bradford based construction company has been fined. Manchester Magistrates’…
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Breaker became detached from 360, worker loses leg
A firm has been fined after a worker was left with life changing injuries the company Hovington Ltd was sentenced today for safety breaches after a worker was struck by…
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Worker struck by excavator breaker after it came lose
A construction worker was hit by a breaker after it loosened it self from the quick hitch, when it fell it narrowly missed on worker and hit another on the…
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