Health and Safety

NG Bailey has been fined £135,000 after a subcontracted worker died at a site in Aberdeen. Alistair Hutton, 51, was struck by a metal lintel while navigating a mobile elevating work platform (MEWP) during the construction of the Baird Family Hospital. Hutton, who lived in Forfar, immediately lost consciousness and…

A contractor has been fined £25,000 after one of its workers died after falling almost 2 metres. According to the  the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), Mark Tolley was helping to construct six houses in Kent when he fell through an “unguarded opening” in the scaffold. He was installing vertical…

Morgan Sindall has improved its safety practices following a crane incident at a nuclear site. In August last year, a rail load was dropped from a crane controlled by Morgan Sindall at the Devonshire Dock Hall nuclear submarine building facility at Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria. The incident passed without injuring any people…

A Labour MP has called for women to be explicitly mentioned in the law about the provision of personal protective equipment at work – saying its absence has “significant real-world consequences”. Emma Hardy, MP for Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle, said women “are not just smaller men”, and suggested…

Police officers have carried out new interviews in the criminal investigation into the fatal building collapse at Didcot Power Station. Tomorrow marks the eighth anniversary of the tragedy. Four men – Michael Collings, Ken Cresswell, Christopher Huxtable and John Shaw – died after the boiler house at the disused coal-fired…

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has taken over the criminal investigation into the death of a worker on Laing O’Rourke’s Everton Stadium project. Michael Jones, 26, died from head injuries on 14 August last year at Bramley-Moore Dock. Jones died after being crushed between a scissor ladder and a beam,…

A company has been fined £450,000 and its director handed a suspended sentence after a worker died at a construction site in Birmingham, according to the Crown Prosecution Service. Oleksander Rudyy, 49, was crushed to death in May 2019 when the structure he was standing on collapsed. He had earlier…

Police and the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) have launched a joint investigation after a worker was injured on a construction site near Manchester. Police and ambulance services were called shortly before 1pm yesterday (12 February) to the West Vale housing development in Oldham, which is being built by Caddick…

A member of the public has died after apparently falling from a building site crane during the night. West Yorkshire Police said they were called to the site in Central Road in Leeds city centre just before 8am on Wednesday (7 February) after a body was found. A spokesperson said:…

Unite has said it is “alarming” that the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) does not keep track of the number of investigations it carries out involving cranes. In December, Construction News reported on calls for the re-establishment of the national crane register in the wake of a number of site…