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Roofworker injured at school

Two companies, Marnick Roofing Limited and Interserve Construction limited have been fined a total of £21,000 after a worker was seriously injured falling through an unprotected roof light opening at....

Added on: 08/05/2015

RR1045 – Development of a Health Risk Management Maturity Index (HeRMMIn) as a performance leading indicator within the construction industry

Safety cultural maturity reflects an organisation’s degree of readiness to tackle safety risks. Until recently, no equivalent model for occupational health (OH) had been developed. The current resea....

Added on: 01/05/2015

Toy firm and builder in court over warehouse roof death

A Lancashire-based toy distributor and a builder have been sentenced after a worker plunged to his death through a warehouse roof.....

Added on: 01/05/2015

Lewisham company in court over worker fall

A Lewisham roofing company has been fined for safety failings after a worker was seriously injured in a five metre fall from a property in Bromley. Daniel Dennis, 22, from Lewisham, fractured his pelv....

Added on: 01/05/2015

Fatality at construction site leads to fine

Mark Hammond was fined £12,500 after a 21 year old worker was electrocuted whilst carrying out works in the communication room in a basement on a construction site. Hammond, of Church Gresley, Swandi....

Added on: 01/05/2015

Essex builders sentenced over scaffold fall

A building firm was fined £11,000 with costs of £7729 after a site manager dismantled scaffolding and later fell from it. At Westminster Magistrates’ Court heard Abridge Developments Limited of Ep....

Added on: 01/05/2015

Pembrokeshire contractor fined for safety breaches at Wildlife Park

Construction contractor, Richard Lynch (42) was fined £2,000 with £1,002.80 costs at Haverford West Magistrates Court on Tuesday 21 April after he and another worker were injured. One worker was kn....

Added on: 24/04/2015

Construction client in court after concerns raised over work at height

Mark Hewitt, a construction client from Birmingham, was fined £3000 and ordered to pay £1255.30 in costs at Sandwell Magistrates Court for failing to properly plan or manage construction work. HSE i....

Added on: 24/04/2015

Two firms fined after worker seriously injured

A worker suffered fractures to his back, hip and leg after he was knocked over by a four-tonne piling hammer when it broke free while being lifted into position, a court has heard. Scene of the incide....

Added on: 24/04/2015

Steel firm sentenced over North Yorkshire worker’s death

A Sheffield steel company has been sentenced after a catalogue of safety failings led to a 42-year-old worker being killed when he was knocked off his lorry and then crushed by a three-tonnes load of ....

Added on: 24/04/2015