A scaffolding company was fined £30,000 after failing to ensure a tower scaffold was constructed correctly.

A South Wales renovation company has been fined £40,000 and ordered to pay almost £6,000 in costs after defying enforcement notices from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE).

Before the pandemic the death rate in construction was slowing. The latest HSE figures show that this has now reversed.

A specialist contractor with “outdated attitudes to managing health and safety” has been fined £60,000 after a worker fell to his death from a church steeple in Birmingham. David Clover,…

BAM Nuttall has been fined £800,000 after a 23-year-old agency worker died when a skip’s bale arm fell on him during the construction of a wind farm on the Shetland Islands.

A solar panel installation business has been fined £120,000 after an employee broke his leg while working on a property in Salisbury.

Two building control companies have been sanctioned following minor breaches of the code of conduct for approved inspectors. Building Consents Ltd and Integral Building Control Solutions Ltd faced separate disciplinary…

Balfour Beatty has been fined £285,000 after a worker died and another was seriously injured in a scissor lift accident.

A senior APS member has called on the HSE to re-examine the role of dutyholders under the CDM regulations in the light of an increase in fatalities in construction. Figures…

Health and Safety Executive inspectors are investigating the site of the fire that broke out at a block of flats in Dagenham in August. A total of 40 fire engines…

More people are being killed at work now after suffering a fall from height than in the last 17 years, according to the latest fatality figures released by the HSE…

Two companies have been fined a total of £76,000 after a engineer was crushed to death by a machine on 24 February 2020. Russell Hartley, 48, was a self-employed engineer…

A Cheshire-based electrical transmission company has been fined £240,000 after a worker was left paralysed from the chest down after a fall at work. Gavin Pugh, from Bangor in North…

EMC Elite Engineering Services Ltd has been fined £52,500 after an employee sustained serious injuries while working at an HS2 construction site in Hertfordshire. The man, who was employed as a…

Deaths in construction have risen with a worker dying almost every week. Last year, 51 people died at work in construction compared with 47 the previous year, Health and Safety…

Avant Homes has been fined £333,000 after a driver was crushed to death by falling concrete blocks at a construction site in South Lanarkshire. Conor Joseph Morgan, 45, had been…

Van Elle has been fined £233,000 after a 52-year-old HGV driver was struck and killed by the mast of a piling rig at a site in Annan, Dumfries and Galloway.

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has updated its guidance on registered building inspectors to include details about what constitutes a conflict of interest.