by Goldcross | Jan 18, 2023 | Accidents, Construction
Civil engineering firm Kier has been fined more than £4m after its workers twice struck overhead powerlines while working on the M6 motorway causing cables to land in the path of passing vehicles. In one incident, an overhead cable the workers brought down hit a...
by Goldcross | Dec 22, 2022 | Accidents, Construction
A building company has been fined £66,667 after a worker was injured when a floor that was under construction collapsed. The Lusson Ltd worker was one of three people who were on the incomplete first floor of a building that was being constructed in Croham Valley...
by Goldcross | 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 Goldcross | Nov 1, 2022 | Construction, General, Training
A building contractor has been fined £600,000 and its director has been ordered to complete 100 hours of unpaid work and fined £4,200 following serious and repeated failings in managing the risk of fire during work at a construction site. In January 2018 the Health...
by Goldcross | Oct 25, 2022 | Construction, General
A podcast for the construction industry has been launched this week by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). Supporting the Work Right Construction: Your Health. Your Future campaign, this new episode discusses the impact and the prevention of the serious aches,...
by Goldcross | 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,...