Some of the country’s biggest contractors have agreed to hand out an estimated £80m in compensation to blacklisted workers, equating to an average individual payout of £65,000 to each of the 771…
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A company has been fined £2.6 million after an employee was killed when the trench he was working in collapsed on him in Lancashire. James Sim, a 32-year-old worker, from Barry,…
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A Birmingham maintenance company has been fined after a worker died as a result of falling from the roof of a five-storey building. Birmingham Crown Court heard how H20 Plumbing…
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The building site worker had to be airlifted to Royal Stoke University Hospital after the incident with a ‘large tracked excavator’ the incident happened at a site in Corporation Street,…
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With tensions still high at the Didcot site where one man was killed and three are still missing following the boiler house collapse in February demolition news has reported that…
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Leigh Day (instructed by the GMB), OH Parsons (instructed by UCATT) and GCR today announce that they have settled their outstanding claims in the Construction Industry Vetting Information Group Litigation….
Read MoreA total of 36,566 new homes were registered by NHBC in the first three months of the year in the UK, according to NHBC’s latest new home registration statistics. New…
Read MoreA 60-year-old construction worker has been killed after being hit by the boom of crane he was directing on the Queensferry Crossing project in Scotland. The ongoing dangers in the construction…
Read MoreNationaltradesmen.co.uk has reported on a number of stories involving fake CSCS cards and now the CITB have employed a former Superintendent, Ian Sidney, to find and investigate the rising fraud involving…
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A roofing firm from Malton was fined today for safety breaches after a worker fractured his skull following a fall from height. Mitchell Roofing Ltd, was contracted to replace existing…
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