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Construction - In court articles

Combined fines of £130,000 for excavator fatality

16 May 2012

Guilty verdicts in Liverpool crane disaster

10 May 2012

Poor site management was a result of recklessness

26 April 2012

Bus collided with “invisible” cherry-picker

17 April 2012

Seven workers injured in building collapse at university

12 April 2012

Building firm failed to learn lessons from earlier prosecution

12 April 2012

Six-metre steel tube punctured lorry driver through his chest

05 April 2012

Surveyor killed by reversing lorry on M25 expansion project

22 March 2012

Two firms fined for worker’s excavator-crush injuries

09 March 2012

Worker struck unmarked power cable in ‘safe location’

06 March 2012

HSE inspector “appalled” by roof fall

20 February 2012

Unsecure working platform was not checked before use

07 February 2012

Young worker killed by machine head-clamp

03 February 2012

Excavator crash leaves inadequately trained worker in coma

25 January 2012

Company and supervisor fined for crane fatality

23 January 2012

Footage of safety failings found on victim’s phone

16 January 2012

Jail terms for health and safety test fraudsters

16 January 2012

Director sentenced over crane fatality

21 December 2011

Young child seriously hurt playing on construction site

02 December 2011

Three firms fined for Arsenal stadium injury

30 November 2011

Fine for building firm won’t be paid

28 November 2011

Worker injured in fall from unsuitable platform on lift truck

25 November 2011

Untrained worker burnt in power-cable explosion

18 November 2011

Worker burned in trench gas explosion at football club

07 November 2011

Swansea contractor fined for exposing workers to asbestos

31 October 2011

Risk of structural collapse not identified by designer

11 October 2011

Workers used sledgehammers to break up asbestos board

07 October 2011

Prohibition Notice breached during follow-up inspection

06 September 2011

Firms used cheap, unlicensed contractor to remove asbestos materials

11 August 2011

Worker seriously hurt in fall from inadequately protected fragile roof

10 August 2011

Construction firm was aware of fall risk

28 July 2011

Surprise inspection uncovers roof-renovation errors

25 July 2011

Falling panel nearly severed pensioner’s foot

09 June 2011

Two firms given big fines for power-station fatality

06 June 2011

Four defendants in the dock after worker’s electric shock

06 June 2011

Builder fined £100k for trench collapse fatality

27 May 2011

Two companies and worker prosecuted over excavator fatality

20 May 2011

Cinema collapsed into dual carriageway during demolition

13 May 2011

Court condemns cavalier construction company

11 May 2011

Builder sent to prison for putting profit before safety

14 April 2011

£400,000 penalty for firms involved in scaffold death

13 April 2011

Worker suffered coma following scaffold fall

04 April 2011

Pensioner crushed in scaffold collapse

21 March 2011

Forty-five workers exposed to asbestos during Topshop renovations

18 March 2011

Christmas lights collapse costs construction company

17 March 2011

Hard-up building firm to pay £5000 over trench-collapse death

02 March 2011

Engineer maimed during second day at new job

25 February 2011

First corporate-manslaughter conviction delivers £385,000 penalty

17 February 2011

Company allowed flammable chemicals to be used near open fire

17 February 2011

Construction boss “failed to control” asbestos exposure

15 February 2011