Top five read stories of 2024
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Tag: Construction deaths
Worker Fatally Injured at Viking Site: BAM Nuttall Fined £800,000
Liam MacDonald, a 23-year-old agency worker from Tain, Ross-shire, tragically lost his life on 5 June 2022 while working at the Viking site on Upper Kergord. MacDonald had been employed…
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£1.6m fine after 24 year old lost life in accident
Tragic Fatality of Jack Phillips Highlights Failures in Workplace SafetyOn 8 August 2019, Jack Phillips tragically lost his life while working for Brand Energy and Infrastructure Services UK Ltd on…
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Worker killed after telehandler topples over
Scott Bradley, 44, tragically lost his life on 11 May 2022 after a telehandler he was operating slid down an embankment and overturned at a construction site on Stepford Road….
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Balfour Beatty fined £2.8m after worker loses life on scissor lift
After the tragic incident where a worker lost his lift Balfour Beatty was fined £285,000 after a 62-year-old worker fell 10 metres to his death during construction of a new…
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Driver dies after being crushed by concrete blocks
A driver was crushed to death by falling concrete blocks at a construction site in South Lanarkshire the house builder was fined £333,000 after being found guilty. The driver Conor…
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Van Elle fined £233,000 after piling rig fell and killed HGV driver
A tragic accident resulted in a HGV driver losing his life after a piling rig mast fell when being loaded onto the drivers HGV and killed the 52 year old….
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Double glazing boss avoids jail after worker died
A worker died while trying to retrieve a large toughened glass panel, the Croydon-based double glazing boss has avoided an immediate spell behind bars following the death a man described…
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Carpenter killed by roofing panels in high winds
A carpenter has died after he was struck by spandrel panels in high winds the carpentry contractor has been fined after the tragic accident. On 30 October 2019, Niall McCormack…
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Worker crushed to death while loading excavator grab
Erith Plant Services Limited in Kent has been fined £175,000 following the death of an 24 year old employee after a tragic accident. Liam McArdle, from Gravesend, was fatally crushed…
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