Roofer dies after falling from unsafe ladder
An Aberdeen based roofing contractor has been fined after an employee fell to his death from a ladder while exiting a scaffold at Jute Street in the city. Aberdeen Sheriff…
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Category: Accidents in constuction
PDR Construction fined £225,000 for KFC roof fall
Two companies, P.D.R. Construction Limited and Metcalfe Roofing & Building Services Limited, have been fined after a worker fell through a fragile mesh roof whilst carrying out work at height….
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Security guards hand severed after helping digger driver
A groundworks company has been fined after a security guard suffered serious hand injuries. Bristol Magistrates’ Court heard how on 17 November 2017 at the site on Ableton Lane in…
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Surgeons save carpenters hand after he cuts it off with chop saw
A carpenter had cut off his thumb and index finger with a chop saw and brought to a plastic surgeons at St George’s Hospital in Tooting where they reattached a…
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Worker killed in £40m Scotland cinema build
A construction worker was killed on the St Enoch Centre site in Glasgow yesterday. A Police Scotland spokesperson said: “A 43-year-old man has died after sustaining serious injuries while working…
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Clancy Docwra fined after worker struck and another killed by excavator
A construction company and one of its employees have been sentenced for health and safety breaches after another worker was struck by an excavator and was killed. Southwark Crown Court…
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Roofing Boss blown of roof suffers serious injuries
Three construction companies have been fined after the director of one of the firms received serious injuries after falling 11 metres when a gust of wind blew him off a…
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Apprentice bricklayer 18 fell 3m through stairwell
Construction company Trumax Building Ltd was sentenced today for safety breaches after an employee under the age of 18 fell 2.62 metres through a stairway opening at a site in…
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Two seriously injured when RRV backed into them
The extent to which drivers of road-rail vehicles can or cannot see the railway line in front of and behind them has been put in the spotlight by the Rail…
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Fabricated staircase slipped causing amputation of leg
A company specialising in the manufacture and installation of industrial staircases has been fined following an incident where a worker became trapped at a site on Fenchurch Avenue in London….
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