Health and Safety

A contractor has been fined £40,000 after one of its workers was paralysed falling through the roof of a house, according to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). A statement from HSE said that Andrew Clifford, a sub-contractor from Chesterfield and father of three fell from height while helping to…

By Gino Spocchia A criminal case brought against facade firm Lindner Prater, contractor Winvic and two other companies over the death of a man hit by a window falling from a building has been adjourned. The firms were due to appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court earlier this week (29 October)…

A contractor has been fined a total of £215,000 after a roofer suffered severe injuries when he was thrown from a cherry picker that was hit by a bus. Main contractor McTaggart Construction Ltd, based in North Ayrshire, pleaded guilty at Glasgow Sheriff Court on 10 October to charges relating…

Persimmon and a self-employed carpenter have been found jointly liable after the carpenter fell nearly five metres from a ladder. Ryan Jones suffered a fractured ankle after falling from the scaffolding system at a Persimmon housing development at Old St Mellons, Cardiff, in August 2018. He was 33 at the…

A farm owner in Cheshire has been fined £16,000 after a roofer died following a fall from a forklift truck at his farm, according to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). Mark Young, a 64-year-old roofing specialist, was working at Moss Hall Farm in February 2021 when he fell around…

Ringway has successfully applied to a tribunal to cancel a health and safety improvement notice served against it.  Ringway Infrastructure Services Ltd was handed an improvement notice and a notice of contravention in July 2021 after one of its employees died while carrying out emergency road maintenance works in Hertfordshire. …

Balfour Beatty has said that use of a digital platform co-run by its chief executive’s nephew has helped it achieve a record safety performance. The plc has been working with AI-powered platform Site Assist since 2021 to digitise and streamline permit to work procedures on its sites. Statistics provided by…

A Wakefield-based contractor has been fined £150,000 after an elderly client fell through an unguarded hole at his house.  According to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), Cooper and Westgate was converting Kenneth Armitage’s bathroom into a wet room when it left an unguarded hole in the floor after removing…

Balfour Beatty has been fined for breaching lifting safety rules after a worker fell from a scissor lift to his death. According to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), Igor Malka, 62, fell from the machinery in January 2020, sustaining fatal injuries. At the time, Malka had been working at…

A coroner has called for improved rescue training for operatives of mobile elevated platforms after the death of an electrician working on a Winvic site. Fiona Butler wrote to six organisations, including the International Powered Access Federation (IPAF), calling for rescue training drills to form part of the courses that…