by Tech Support | Nov 20, 2022 | Accidents, Construction, General
A Wakefield roofing company has been fined and its sole director given a suspended prison sentence after a dad-of-two was killed when he fell 12 metres through a skylight. Jonathan May, 39, from Horbury, Wakefield, who was a subcontractor for Davis Industrial Roofing...
by Tech Support | Oct 13, 2022 | Accidents, Construction, General
A Kent groundwork contractor has been fined after a worker sustained serious burns following petrol being thrown on a bonfire. On 24 June 2020, a 26-year-old groundworker employed by Kent County Surfacing Ltd was working on a new residential development in Ramsgate,...
by Tech Support | Sep 6, 2022 | Accidents, Construction, General
Two companies and two people have been sentenced after an 18-year-old construction worker was fatally injured while working on a house-build construction site in Boston, Lincolnshire. P & R Plant Hire (Lincolnshire) Limited, D. Brown (Building Contractors)...
by Tech Support | Aug 15, 2022 | Accidents, Construction, General
A carpentry and joinery company has been fined after a man working unsecured on the forks of a fork-lift truck fell 3.5 metres to the ground. On 14 June 2021, the man was working for Staircraft Group Limited at their head office site at Bayton Road Industrial Estate,...
by Tech Support | Aug 7, 2022 | Accidents, Construction, General
A civil engineering firm has been fined £600K for safety breaches after a seven-year-old child became trapped and suffocated on a construction site. Seven-year-old Conley Thompson went missing from home on the morning of 26 July 2015 and was found the next morning by...
by Tech Support | Jul 21, 2022 | Accidents, Construction, General, Railway, Training
The Mineral Products Association (MPA) has launched a number of new resources, available to all, after identifying ‘Working at Height’ as one of the ‘Fatal 6’. As reported in the HSE statics there were 35 deaths attributed to falls from height in 2021/22 and they...