Health and Safety

Parliamentary authorities expect to spend nearly £2m on procuring a contractor to repair the Palace of Westminster’s tallest structure, the Victoria Tower, after botching the first tender. Construction News revealed in April that the tender for the £95m job had to be re-run after errors were made in documents used…

Bam Nuttall has been fined £2.345m after a worker drowned in the River Aire in 2017.  Gary Webster was removing debris from the bottom of weir gates at Knostrop Weir, in south Leeds, with another worker when their boat capsized.   The boat had been pulled into turbulent water caused…

Van Elle has been fined £233,000 after a 52-year-old man died on a site in Annan, Dumfries and Galloway.  Gary Dobinson, an HGV driver employed by a separate company, was struck and killed by the mast of a piling rig at residential development Hallmeadow on 21 January 2021, according to…

A roofing firm in Manchester has been fined £20,000 after an employee fractured his back falling through a roof during a repair job, the health and safety watchdog has said. The Hightech Roofing N/W Limited worker fell about 4.8 metres through a roof light during the incident in Blackburn on…

A carpentry firm has been fined £8,000 after a 22-year-old died when struck by falling material at a construction site in Cambridgeshire, according to the health and safety watchdog. KM Carpentry Contractors, based in Higham Ferrers, Northamptonshire, was also ordered to pay almost £7,000 in costs after pleading guilty to…

The director of a Cornish housebuilder has been fined more than £60,000 after workers were exposed to asbestos during a hotel demolition job. Paul Stephens, director of Stephens Developers Ltd, pleaded guilty at Truro Crown Court to breaching asbestos regulations, according the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). The prosecution by…

A director has been given a suspended jail sentence after knowingly exposing workers to asbestos. Inspectors were called to a building site operated by Eye Track Ltd in Stretford, Manchester, over concerns about unsafe working at height while units were being demolished to make way for eight new homes, according…

The owner of the Crooked House pub has said it was demolished because of health and safety concerns partly caused by members of the public taking souvenirs from the building. In a planning appeal against an order to rebuild the venue, known as Britain’s wonkiest pub, exactly as it was…

Ardmore has paused work on part of a £75m development in east London while the council investigates reports of a chemical smell. The contractor stopped piling work at a site on the Hackney Yards scheme in Wallis Road, Hackney Wick, after nearby residents complained about air quality, according to a…

Erith Plant Services has been fined £175,000 after a worker was killed by a falling demolition grab at the firm’s workshop. Liam McArdle, 24, was at the facility in Swanscombe, Kent, when the excavator attachment fell onto him while it was being loaded onto a lorry. According to a statement…