A self-employed builder has today been given a suspended jail sentence after a three-year-old girl suffered severe head injuries when a length of timber fell on her whilst being hoisted…
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The latest IHS Markit/CIPS UK Construction Total Activity Index has revealed that commercial construction activity has fallen again. However, house building has helped UK construction sector return to growth in April with…
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Places for people and ilke have signed a pioneering joint venture with to deliver hundreds of modular homes, as confidence in offsite manufacturing (OSM) grows. 750 home commitment is huge…
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A construction company and its director have been fined after failing to ensure the safe removal of asbestos during demolition work. Greater Manchester Magistrates’ Court heard how Sherwood Homes Limited…
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A company, two directors and a self-employed contractor have been sentenced and fined after an electrician fell two storeys through an unprotected stairwell. Manchester and Salford Magistrates Court heard how,…
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A self-employed gas fitter has been jailed after he carried out unsafe gas work while falsely pretending to be Gas Safe registered. Marc Murrie misled homeowners on several occasions by…
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A digger has landed on a cherry picker while being loaded into a shaft at the Tideway site in Greenwich the mini excavator was dropped down a shaft landing on an…
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A massive five axle crane overturned on a job site in Uppsala, Sweden on Thursday. The crane a five axle Liebherr from the Estonian rental company Ehitustehnika/Viking Cranes was in…
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An Essex-based company has today been fined following the death of concrete worker Garry Louis at a dockside apron-upgrade project on the Port of Felixstowe. Chelmsford Crown Court heard how R….
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A Staffordshire-based landlord has been sentenced after failing to provide evidence that a gas safety check had been carried out at one of his tenanted properties. Newcastle-under-Lyme Magistrates’ Court heard…
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