Travis Perkins fined £2 million after load fell and killed driver
A court has fined builders’ merchant Travis Perkins £2 million after part of a timber load fell from one of its lorries, striking the windscreen of an oncoming car and…
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Tag: Deaths in construction
Company fined £1.5m after electrician died after 8m fall
An electrician died in fall of approximately eight metres when an access panel on the raised walkway of an overhead crane gave way beneath him the firm has been fined…
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Firm fined after worker falls from mobile tower and dies
A construction company has been fined after an employee died as a result of falling from a mobile tower while helping to lift and level a steel beam. Cambridge Magistrates…
Read MoreSon dies after father was fatally injured days earlier
A serious accident in Merseyside has now claimed both father and son after a external lift failed, the 17 year was old left critically injured after his father was killed working…
Read MoreWorker dies at Brymor construction site
A construction worker has died on a new housing development at the Basingstoke building site has been named by friends as Scott Grimes. The emergency services were called to Wiltshire Crescent,…
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Rose builders fined £225,000 after dumper driver killed
A leading construction company has been fined following an incident in which a worker was killed when a dumper truck overturned. Chelmsford Magistrates’ Court heard that on 3 October 2016,…
Read MoreWorker killed by remote controlled crane
An electricity and gas utility company has today been fined after a worker was killed on Winslow Road in East Claydon. Aylesbury Crown Court heard how, on 18 November 2016,…
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Worker fatally crushed between digger and dumper
A civil engineering company has been sentenced for safety breaches after father of three Darren Richardson suffered fatal crush injuries. Sheffield Crown Court heard in December 2014 RMB Contractors Ltd…
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Roofer dies after fall on loft conversion job
A Darwen firm have appeared in court after one of their employees, Graham Readfern (56 yrs old from Bacup), died after falling from the roof of a partly completed loft…
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Builders killed by wall collapse inquest begins
An inquest has begun into the events that lead to two ground workers who dies in a wall collapse at a barn renovation at the The Old Maltings building which was…
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