A construction company has been sentenced following an incident where two bricklayers fell from height during the construction of a parapet wall. Manchester Magistrates’ Court heard that on 31 October 2019, two employees suffered serious injuries at a property in Over Alderley, Cheshire when the makeshift platform they were working on collapsed. The two men, along with plywood boards and bricks, fell approximately eight feet to the concrete floor below.

Infiniti Roofing and Construction Ltd has been sentenced for breaches of safety regulations after an employee fell through a gap in scaffolding and sustained multiple injuries whilst working on a building at Havers Hill, Eastfield, Scarborough.  York Magistrates’ Court heard that, on 15 November 2017, a 20-year-old labourer who was working on the roof, fell three metres through a gap in the scaffolding onto an office roof below causing injuries to his left wrist and hand.

J Murphy Aggregates Ltd, Shaun Murphy and James Duggan have been sentenced at Leeds Crown Court for safety breaches after a worker was struck by a falling excavator. In addition, J Murphy Aggregates Ltd was sentenced for safety breaches in a separate incident after a wagon driver sustained severe crush injuries to his right leg when he was dragged under a 360 excavator.

A North-East civil engineering company has been sentenced after a worker suffered life threatening injuries after falling 15 metres when a platform he was working on unexpectedly collapsed.  Teesside Magistrates Court heard how that on 31 July 2019, the worker was involved in the dismantling of the Brent Bravo, a former North Sea oil and gas platform.

A manufacturing company has been fined after an employee was found fatally injured under the forks of a side-loader lift truck.Dudley Magistrates’ Court heard that on 2 September 2019, a Cutting Edge Trading Limited employee, Mitchell Poutney, was fatally injured at the company site on Station Road, Rowley Regis, West Midlands during a lifting operation.

A company has been fined after an electrician died in fall of approximately eight metres when an access panel on the raised walkway of an overhead crane gave way beneath him. Teesside Crown Court heard that on 25 October 2016, whilst working at Cleveland Bridge UK Limited’s site in Yarm Road, Darlington, electrician Keith Poppleton was repairing wiring that had been causing a short circuit on the lifting equipment of a large overhead gantry crane, known as C25. As he was walking along the crane’s walkway, an access panel gave way beneath his feet, causing him to fall through to the ground below. 

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2021 saw some huge fines for the likes of Vue Entertainment, Drayton Manor, British Airways and NHS Trust, a £4m fine for National Grid and a £6.5m fine following the death of an 11-year-old boy at a freight terminal.

Developer Peel L&P has appointed Graham to build the first major housing phase of its planned Northbank neighbourhood at Wirral Waters.  Construction work will begin this spring on the £130m project, known as Wirral Waters One, set to be the biggest single development at Wirral Waters so far.

Three managers at midlands metal recycling firm Alutrade have admitted health and safety offences over an incident in which a worker died, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has said.  Alutrade as a company has admitted corporate manslaughter.  Stuart Towns, 35, died after being struck from above while working at Alutrade’s site in Oldbury on 24 July 2017.

Health and safety specialist, Arco, has opened a new Safety Centre in Trafford Park, Manchester, providing both safety training and essential kit in one facility.