A business owner in Hull has been prosecuted after an employee fell nearly four metres while painting the top of a water storage tank and shattered his left leg.
The 58 year-old decorator, from north-west Hull, will never be able to go back to his lifetime trade or any other construction-related wo…
A Newquay building contractor has been fined for allowing multiple safety failings at a new-build construction site, exposing workers to serious risk of injury.
On 28 November, Bodmin Magistrates' Court heard that Paul David Brannan was the principal contractor at the four-storey apartment block in…
An Essex manufacturing firm has been fined after a contractor suffered
multiple fractures to his skull, leg, back and wrist when he fell from
an unsecured platform.
The 34-year-old from Colchester, who does not wish to be named, was replacing a light fitting from a makeshift work platform der…
Bradford Council has been fined for breaching safety regulations after a
school caretaker was left with permanent disabilities when he fell
through the school hall ceiling five days before his retirement.
David O'Hanlon, 62, was putting a new light bulb in a roof void of the old Beckfoot Scho…
A Merseyside firm has been sentenced after a worker received life-threatening injuries when he fell from scaffolding at a Croxteth sports centre.
The 43-year-old man from West Derby suffered a brain haemorrhage, fractured skull and collapsed lung in the incident at Croxteth Sports and Wellbei…
A Monmouth roof refurbishment company has been fined after an employee was injured in a six-metre fall from the roof of a house in Cirencester.
On 17 September, Cheltenham Magistrates' Court heard that 26 year-old Lee Hanson, from South Shields, was using a roof ladder as he replaced tiles …
A Bridgend firm has been sentenced for safety failings after a teenage worker plunged nearly six metres through a fragile roof at a children's activity centre.
Joshua Harry, 18, from Swansea, escaped with severe bruising to his back following the incident at Cantref Adventure Farm, Brecon, on…
A Shropshire firm, which hires out equipment for working safely at height, has been fined after a worker suffered multiple injuries when he fell from a cherry picker.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) prosecuted UK Platforms Ltd. following the incident at the company's depot in Halesfield…
A Leicestershire house builder has been fined after two self-employed bricklayers fell more than two metres from a scaffold.
Darren Bird and James Allies were contracted to help build houses at a small development in Normanton, near Bottesford, by Cairns Heritage Homes No2 Limited.
On 8 Decemb…
A Norwich scaffolding firm has been fined after a self-employed aircraft painter was injured after falling more than two metres when a wooden scaffold board broke.
The 37-year-old, from Basildon Essex, who does not wish to be named, was working on an aircraft at the Air Livery, Aviation Way, …
A Darlington contractor has been fined after a worker was left severely brain damaged following a fall from a house roof.
Mark Lambton, 50, from Darlington, was working for James Wilson, trading as J Wilson Home Improvements, when the incident happened on 2 July 2011.
Mr Wilson had secured wor…
A housing repair and maintenance company has been fined after a Nottingham worker suffered serious neck and back fractures falling 2.4 metres through a fragile roof.
The 49-year-old employee needed to wear a body and neck brace for three months after falling head first through an outhouse r…
A construction firm and a roofing company have been fined for their part in a fall at a Lincoln retail park.
Taylor Pearson Construction Limited was the principal contractor building a new retail unit at The Carlton Centre on Outer Circle Road. The company sub-contracted roof cladding work to R…
A company which makes modular timber buildings has been fined after an
employee suffered multiple injuries falling from a canopy at a
Shropshire school.
RG Stones (Buildings) Ltd. had been contracted to replace the canopy between two temporary buildings at Lakelands School on Oswestry Road in…
Three companies were ordered to pay a total of £232,000 in fines and costs after two workers on an Exeter building site suffered severe injuries when the platform they were working on collapsed and fell four storeys down a lift shaft.
On 3 August, Exeter Crown Court heard that the men were wo…
A construction and design company in Berkshire has been prosecuted for safety failings after a bricklayer was seriously injured when he fell three metres through a skylight opening in a flat roof.
The worker broke his pelvis and wrist in the fall at Holmsbury St. Mary, Surrey, on 18 November …
A beef supplier has been fined after a worker fractured his spine and heel bone after falling during dangerous work at height at a Lincoln abattoir.
The maintenance engineer has been told he may never fully recover from the injuries he sustained in the incident at Dovecote Park Ltd., Skelli…
Two workers were fortunate to escape with only minor injuries when they fell from a school roof in Didsbury, a court has heard.
The men had been investigating a leak in the flat roof at Barlow Moor High School when one of them leant on a wooden handrail that collapsed. The other worker tried to…
An Essex car parts manufacturer has been prosecuted for safety failings after an employee fell through a mezzanine floor at a Hawkwell factory.
The Auto-Plas worker required stitches to a hand injury and was off works for two weeks as a result of the incident on 17 May last year.
On 18…
