| Carlisle worker’s skull crushed in six metre fall | Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:30 |
| Two brothers have been fined a total of £13,000 after a worker was left with a crushed skull and permanent brain damage when he fell through an industrial roof in Carlisle.
Alan Hind, from Corrie Common near Lockerbie, was helping to demolish an industrial building in Carlisle when he fell six metres to the concrete floor [...] | |
| Architects and construction firm fined after worker falls nine metres to his death | Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:00 |
| An architect’s practice and a construction company involved in a Somerset development have today been fined a total of £195,000 following a fatality on the site.
Express Park Construction Company Limited (EPCC), of Harley Street, London, pleaded guilty to breaching Section 3(1) of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 for failing to safely [...] | |
| Construction Infonet – July 2010 | Tue, 27 Jul 2010 08:05 |
| July’s Construction infonet is now available online, June and May are also available from the archives.
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| Worker loses lower leg after paving machine crush | Thu, 22 Jul 2010 16:30 |
| A Somerset construction firm has today been fined £10,000 after a worker’s foot was crushed under a paving machine – and he had to have his lower leg amputated.
HSE prosecuted John Wainwright & Co Ltd for its role in the incident on School Road, Monkton in Heathfield on 29 August 2008.
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| Construction company put workers at risk of falls | Thu, 22 Jul 2010 16:00 |
| A major construction company has been fined today for failing to properly protect its workers from falls at height on a site in South Wales.
Gee Construction Ltd was the principal contractor on the site at Castlegate, Caerphilly when a HSE inspector visited on 22 October 2009.
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| FAQs – When do the CDM Regulations 2007 apply to a project? | Thu, 22 Jul 2010 09:00 |
| The Construction, Design and Management (CDM) 2007 Regulations apply to most common building, civil engineering and engineering construction work. You must notify HSE of the site if the construction work is expected to either last longer than 30 days or involve more than 500 person days of construction work.
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| Firm fined after scaffold collapse | Wed, 21 Jul 2010 15:00 |
| A scaffolding contractor from Teesside has been fined after a scaffold collapsed into a public street.
HSE prosecuted William Bedford, trading as B & J Scaffolding, following the incident in Jedburgh Street, Middlesbrough in 2008.
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| Scaffolding firm prosecuted for dangerous installation | Fri, 16 Jul 2010 14:55 |
| A roofer was seriously injured after plunging almost six metres when a scaffolding platform in Bridlington collapsed.
Local self-employed contractor Stephen Martin fell from the roofline of a domestic two-storey property on St Aiden Road, in Bridlington, on 17 April 2009 when the scaffold beneath him swung open like a trapdoor.
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| Safety notice – Avoiding trapping/crushing injuries to people in the platform of mobile elevating work platforms (MEWPs) | Fri, 16 Jul 2010 13:51 |
| More people die from falls at work than from any other cause. The use of mobile elevating work platforms/powered access equipment has been a major factor in the reduction in falls accidents. For temporary work at height this kind of equipment is often the safest solution.
However there are currently under investigation a number of fatal and [...] | |
| Safety notice – Risks associated with working on or near lamp columns with non-standard roots during excavation works | Thu, 15 Jul 2010 14:53 |
| In February 2010 a young child was killed and a woman injured when a lamp column fell on them. The lamp column fell outside the boundary of a site where street works were taking place.
The lamp column was of a non-standard root design being a cranked root where the foundation is offset from the lamp [...] | |
