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SAFETY HELMET SAVED LIFE OF MAINTENANCE WORKER

Posted on 29th December 2011
Major steel firm fined following roller shutter door collapse during repairs

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COLLAPSE CAUSED BY INADEQUATE STABILITY MEASURES

Posted on 17th November 2011
Contractors fined after scaffolding crashed onto vehicles at trading estate

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COLLAPSE SHOWS DANGER OF UNREGULATED CONTRACTORS

Posted on 15th November 2011
Scaffold collapse caused by incompetent staff, inadequate design and tieing 

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ARCHITECT AND CONTRACTOR ADMIT GUILT AFTER SITE DEATH

Posted on 4th October 2011
Northern Ireland firms poor assessment, design and supervision led to collapse

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SCAFFOLDER AND FIRM FINED OVER UNSTABLE SCAFFOLD

Posted on 21st September 2011
Handover of unsecured scaffolding put building workers lives at risk

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SCAFFOLDING CONTRACTOR PROSECUTED AFTER COLLAPSE

Posted on 9th September 2011
False floor dropped 4m under 150 guests at marquee wedding breakfast

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INCIDENT: WORKMAN CRUSHED BY STEELWORK

Posted on 24th August 2011
Serious accident on major new refuse and recycling project site

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DIRECTOR PROSECUTED OVER DEATH OF CHILD

Posted on 10th August 2011
Company director faces manslaughter charge over collapsing wall fatality

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TEMPORARY WORKS NOT PROPERLY DESIGNED FOR SAFETY

Posted on 9th July 2011
Workmen fell on refurb project when concrete pour triggered decking collapse

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UNSTABLE STRUCTURE COLLAPSED ON DEMOLITION TEAM

Posted on 6th July 2011
Failure to properly assess and plan demolition work caused injury

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SHEETED SCAFFOLDING COLLAPSED DURING ROOF REFURB

Posted on 2nd June 2011
Falling structure untied and not installed in compliance with original drawings

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BUILDING COLLAPSED DURING DEMOLITION PROJECT

Posted on 12th May 2011
Firm sentenced after disused cinema collapses onto a dual carriageway

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TOWER CRANE COLLAPSE PROSECUTION COMMENCES

Posted on 21st April 2011
Contractor and structural engineers charged over Liverpool crane incident 

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SCAFFOLD COLLAPSE INJURED MEMBER OF PUBLIC

Posted on 17th March 2011
Contractors fined after passer-by seriously injured in scaffold collapse

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EXCAVATION WORK CAUSED SCAFFOLD COLLAPSE AND FALL

Posted on 16th March 2011
Two workmen injured when scaffolding collapsed on Sussex building site

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BUILDER FINED FOR STRUCTURAL COLLAPSE RISK

Posted on 10th February 2011
Public in danger from city centre building left at risk of collapse

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COUNCIL FINED FOLLOWING DEATH OF CHILD

Posted on 4th February 2011
Boundary wall collapse due to Council failure to maintain in safe condition 

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PROSECUTION FOLLOWS FAILURE TO TRAIN MANAGER

Posted on 25th January 2011
Leg amputated after floor collapse and fall on poorly supervised refurb site

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DEVELOPER FAILED TO ENSURE STABLE GROUND

Posted on 19th January 2011
Property company ignored HSE order to improve earth bank stability

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DEMOLITION CLIENT/CONTRACTOR PUT PUBLIC AT RISK

Posted on 17th January 2011
Inadequate demolition assessment and planning destabilised disused factory

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DEMO RISKS NOT PROPERLY IDENTIFIED AND CONTROLLED

Posted on 22nd November 2010
Workers fall and are injured as stone staircase collapses under their feet

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MAJOR CONTRACTOR FAILED TO DESIGN SAFE HOARDING

Posted on 7th October 2010
Liverpool retail park construction project hoarding collapsed on family    

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FALLING GABLE END WALL SERIOUSLY INJURED TEENAGER

Posted on 6th October 2010
Domestic restoration company fined after unplanned wall collapse

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MAJOR FOOD MANUFACTURER PROSECUTED AFTER PILLAR FELL

Posted on 14th September 2010

Minor structural dismantling work should have been carried out by specialists

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SCAFFOLD COLLAPSE ON PAVEMENT ENDS IN PROSECUTION

Posted on 21st July 2010
Contactor fined after lengthy scaffold overturns on a public street

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SCAFFOLDING CONTRACTOR PROSECUTED

Posted on 16th July 2010
Roofworker seriously injured after scaffold opened like a ’trapdoor’

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CONTRACTOR FAILED TO PLAN MANAGE AND MONITOR

Posted on 21st May 2010
Workman suffers serious injury as wall collapses in wind

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CONSULTING ENGINEERS PROSECUTED

Posted on 16th May 2010
Designer and contractor failed to spot basic error causing building collapse

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SCAFFOLD COLLAPSE CRUSHES CARS

Posted on 25th February 2010
Contractor fined after failing to tie windy location scaffold

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ILL-INFORMED DECISION ENDS IN TRAGEDY

Posted on 12th February 2010
Demolition contractors fined after falling prop fatality

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CLIENT FINED AFTER STRUCTURAL COLLAPSE

Posted on 12th January 2010
Collapse of East London Building puts client in court

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MILTON KEYNES SCAFFOLDING COLLAPSE

Posted on 23rd November 2009
Judge says scaffold collapse was a “disaster waiting to happen”

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WALL COLLAPSED DURING DEMOLITION

Posted on 13th November 2009
Untrained workforce and lack of planning caused demolition injury

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MILTON KEYNES SCAFFOLD COLLAPSE UPDATE

Posted on 29th September 2009
Contractor joins Principal Contractor in admitting offences

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BUILDER GIVEN THREE YEAR JAIL SENTENCE

Posted on 20th July 2009
Manslaughter of young building worker ends in prison for builder

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BUILDERS GUILTY OF MANSLAUGHTER

Posted on 14th July 2009
Defendants plead guilty to manslaughter and now await sentence

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PLATFORM FALL FATALITY VERDICT

Posted on 9th July 2009
Concrete contractor fined heavily after fatality at Wembley stadium

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DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR FINED

Posted on 27th April 2009
Building collapse during refurb project lands director in court

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MANSLAUGHTER TRIAL STARTS

Posted on 15th April 2009
Court to hear cases arising from death of young construction worker

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SENTENCE AWAITED ON WEMBLEY DEATH

Posted on 6th April 2009
Contractor faces fine after platform fatality at Wembley Stadium 

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PROSECUTION AFTER SCAFFOLD COLLAPSE

Posted on 18th March 2009
Workforce and public put at risk by scaffold falling on railway 

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SCAFFOLD COLLAPSE PROSECUTIONS UPDATE

Posted on 16th February 2009
Warrant issued for arrest of scaffolding contractor director   

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PROSECUTION STRUCTURAL COLLAPSE

Posted on 27th January 2009
Builder fined after joist collapse leads to serious injury  

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SCAFFOLD COLLAPSE PROSECUTIONS

Posted on 7th January 2009
Companies and director face prosecution over Milton Keynes collapse

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SCAFFOLD COLLAPSE PROSECUTION

Posted on 15th August 2008
Scaffold collapse injures three workers and contractor fined  

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