Building company fined for risk of carbon monoxide
A building company and its director have been fined for breaching Gas Safety law after putting a childminder and children in her care at risk of carbon monoxide poisoning. Plastic…
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CITB Chief resigns after less than three years
CITB’s chief excutive has resigned after less than three years in the job after continued scrutiny Adrian Belton who was chief executive at the training body, which is now subject to a…
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Company and Director fined after Multiple Safety Failings on Construction Site
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 companies fined after basement collapse
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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London Underground fined £500,000 after worker fell 9.5 meters
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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Worker suffers facial injury by crowbar
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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Laing O’Rourke accused of backdoor blacklisting
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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Worker fell 6 meters using homemade boards
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 die in China scaffold collapse
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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Select mobile crane fleet sold by Laing O’Rourke
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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