Road worker killed by unhitched load
HGV drivers are frequently putting lives at risk by not following basic safety procedures when coupling and uncoupling vehicles, the Health and Safety Executive warned today. The workplace health and…
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Balfour Beatty fined £2.6 m after worker killed in trench collapse
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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Worker dies in fall from roof
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…
Read MoreBanks man killed by boom of crane on new Queensferry Crossing on the Forth
A 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…
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Six months sentence after worker killed in trench collapse
A self-employed contractor has been sentenced after an employee was killed when the trench he was working in collapsed on him. Swansea Magistrates’ Court heard how William Ryan Evans was contracted…
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8 die after construction workers accidentally trigger fire extinguishers
It has been reported that 8 bank workers have died after construction workers accidental trigger fire extinguishers in the basement of a multinational bank in Bangkok. Reports are that the…
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Worker killed after re-bar falls from mobile crane
Eighteen sheets of reinforced wire mesh weighing five tonnes fell from a crane onto the worker while being lifted from truck to site. A construction worker was crushed to death…
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Bricklayer dies after pack of bricks crushed him
A Cheshire construction company has been prosecuted following a fatal accident in 2011 at a site in Wimslow. Liverpool Crown Court heard that Edgemere Projects Ltd of Tarporley, Cheshire, was…
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Balfour Beatty fined £1 million after worker killed
A construction operative working for Balfour Beatty was killed while repairing a central reservation barrier by a mounted lorry crane. The workers were trying to remove the footings of a post…
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Worker dies on Third Don Bridge construction
A construction worker has been killed on the Third Don bridge the emergency services were called to the site around 4.45pm. Balfour Beatty is main contractor on the £18m project…
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