A Croydon-based construction company has been fined for continuing unsafe working practices at a site in Lewisham despite repeated warnings.

£187,000 Fine in First Corporate Manslaughter Case in Northern Ireland

A Sheffield man is lucky to be alive after suffering multiple injuries in a three metre fall down a flight of stairs at his home.
Michael Hall fell from the top of a new staircase that had been left without a handrail by a local builder during refurbishment work at his home in Dobcroft Road.

A Hertfordshire building company has been fined for injuring a woman as she waited for a bus.

A Cheshire worker could have been killed when he fell from the top of a chemical storage tank, a court has heard.

The owner of a pallet manufacturing firm has appeared in court after he allowed fires to be repeatedly lit at his premises next to gas storage sites in Carlisle.

Two Nottingham companies have been fined after a worker fell more than nine metres, injuring his back.

HSE Construction inspectors are carrying out an intensive inspection initiative during February and March 2012, focusing on the refurbishment/building site risks that make construction one of Britain’s most dangerous industries – working at height safely, good order on site, and the risks associated with the removal of asbestos.

Workers exposed to asbestos at Redditch industrial unit

The managing director of a St Helens gas supply firm has appeared in court after he and an employee suffered multiple burns in an explosion.
John Webster was prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) after he and another worker received burns to their faces, hands and legs at North West Gases Ltd. A third employee sustained minor injuries in the explosion, which lifted the roof off the building on Alma Street in St Helens.