Health and Safety

Detectives investigating the Didcot Power Station collapse in which four men died will make a decision on whether to bring charges in the case next year, Thames Valley Police has said. Coleman & Company employees Ken Cresswell, 57, Chris Huxtable, 34, John Shaw, 61, and Mick Collings, 53, died when…

A Dorset contractor has been fined £100,000 after a steel-fixer was crushed by a wall during excavation work, days after consultants raised safety issues on site. According to a statement from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), 69-year-old Patrick Grant was left with life-changing injuries after the incident at a…

A firm acting as a principal contractor has been fined £45,000 after ignoring multiple warnings about site issues from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). An inspection by the HSE to a home-build project being undertaken by Stockport Development Ltd on Kingsley Road, Manchester, in November 2023 uncovered numerous health…

A group of 30 workers have been suspended from a chemical company’s construction site in Royston, Hertfordshire, after they downed tools over health and safety concerns. GMB and Unite have released separate statements alleging poor ventilation, grinding of paint with carcinogenic properties, lack of cold weather clothing, frozen pipes and…

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is still investigating a crane collapse that killed three men, almost eight-and-a-half years after the tragedy, Construction News can reveal. Rhys Barker, 18, from Castleford, West Yorkshire, David Newall, 36, from Bradford, West Yorkshire, and David Webb, 43, from Northampton, died following the crane…

A London-based property refurbishment company and a roofing contractor have been fined a total of £800,000 after a worker was injured in a fall from scaffolding. The man had been working as a labourer for Premier Property and Construction on a project managed by Axis Europe at Cathcart Hill in…

A construction company in Hampshire has been fined £80,000 after a man fell more than 15ft through a skylight during roof repair work. J Smith Construction Services Ltd had been carrying out repairs to a roof at The Tanneries Industrial Estate in Titchfield when a 29-year-old subcontractor fell, according to…

A “verbally abusive” roofer is facing a bill of more than £4,000 after refusing to cooperate with the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). Steven Hendry, trading as Apex Roofing & Property Services, was seen carrying out roof-replacement work without any scaffolding in place, the HSE said. The regulator itself then…

Two companies have been fined a combined £22,000 plus costs after an electrical apprentice fell from height while installing CCTV, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has said. The male apprentice was working for Tristan G Murless Ltd at a site on a commercial industrial estate in Weymouth, Dorset, on…

Hinkley Point C has halted lifting work and is checking its safety procedures after an incident involving panels being raised at height by a crane. The incident occurred earlier this month, when a panel fell onto scaffolding within an exclusion zone, a spokesperson for the project said. They added: “No…