A construction company and its Managing Director have been prosecuted for operating an unsafe construction site during the conversion of a building in Bollington. Manchester and Salford Magistrates’ Court heard…
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Two London based construction companies were prosecuted after a Health and Safety Executive (HSE) inspection identified serious safety breaches on a double basement construction project. Westminster Magistrates Court heard that…
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A London underground worker suffered several injuries, spending ten days in hospital after a 9.5m fall from a tower scaffold while cleaning a former lift shaft just over two years ago….
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A construction company from Northallerton has been fined after a worker suffered facial injury from a crowbar. Durham Crown Court heard how Walter Thompson (Contractors) Limited (WTL) was Principal Contractor…
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UCATT are at loggerheads with major contractor Laing O’Rourke’s over its policies which amount to backdoor blacklisting. Steve Dillon, Regional Secretary for UCATT Scotland held a meeting with Trevor Donoghue,…
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A Derbyshire based engineering construction company has been prosecuted after a worker fell and suffered severe injuries. A worker was repairing a fibreboard roof of a barn and using two…
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67 people have been killed and many more injured at a power plant in China during construction works, the latest deadly number of industrial accident the country which has poor…
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Laing O’Rourke is to sell 11 mobile cranes from its Select Plant arm which will be transferred to Ainscough boosting its fleet of mobile cranes. The operators some 16 in number…
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As previously reported by nationaltradesmen.co.uk that Hewdens was in dire straights the plant hirer called in administrators from Ernst and Young on Tuesday after losing its fight for survival weighed down by a massive…
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A rigger has been killed after falling while installing fall rest lines on pylons, Bilfinger Industrial Services (UK) Limited has been sentenced following the death of a worker who fell…
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