Worker fell five meters while installing roof light
A worker was seriously injured after he fell from approximately five meters the firm has fined after an employee fractured his back and ribs following a fall from a house…
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Timber and brick socks rise as housing sector slows
Brick and timber supplies are largely returning to normal after supplies chains were hit hard in the pandemic and after the crisis due to upsurge in demand. Bricks have started…
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Construction firm fined for un-fulshable toilet
A construction company has been taken to court and fined after it failed to provide suitable welfare facilities at a construction site in Belsize Park, North London. The East Sussex…
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Electrician died after falling from roof of building
A electrical firm has been fined £120,000 after a dad died following a fall from the roof of a building site after work was poorly planned. Father-of-one Dennis Vincent, 36,…
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Plumber jailed for illegal gas work
A plumber has been jailed after carrying out illegal gas installation on 81 year old’s property after she believed he was gas safe. Christopher Roland Shaw, who was also known…
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Companies fined after site had multiple HSE failings
Two companies have been fined £20,000 for a catalogue of health and safety failings at former bank being converted at building site inLondon Road Alderley Edge in the Cheshire village. The…
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Construction buyers see brighter days ahead
With new build taking the biggest hit according to he latest bellwether S&P Global/CIPS UK Construction Purchasing Managers’ Index but buyers insist that despite recession fears construction still looks ok….
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Two builders caught in excavator bucket lifting keystone
A construction company firm has been fined for a series of Health and safety failings one included two workers being hoisted in a excavator bucket to lay a keystone on…
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Carpenter crushed to death by excavator firm dissolved upon prosecution
A Construction company has been fined £146k after a carpenter was crushed to death by a 20 tonne excavator while he was woking on containment works on a concrete overflow…
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Building firm fined for dangerous work after being served prohibition order
A building firm has been fined after putting workers working at height at risk during the refurbishment of a former warehouse building in London and for breaching a Prohibition Notice….
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