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Posted on 3 August 2026

Company and director fined after public seriously injured by falling scaffold tower on busy high street

A London construction company and its sole director have been fined after a tower scaffold fell onto two members of the public on a busy high street in south-west London. On 19 July 2023, operatives working for Add Prop Limited assembled a mobile tower scaffold on Putney High Street while under the supervision of the company’s sole director, Atif Riaz. The scaffold tower, which had been assembled incorrectly with inadequate...

Posted on 3 August 2026

HS2 contractor fined £400,000 after tipper truck driver injured

A joint venture working on the HS2 rail project has been fined after the driver of a 20-tonne tipper truck was injured when his vehicle fell off the edge of an excavation ramp. The incident happened on 27 July 2021, at a site in Copthall North near Uxbridge, West London. The site was being run by SCS Railways, a venture set up by three major construction companies – Skanska Construction...

Posted on 3 August 2026

Construction company director sentenced after collapsing excavation wall leaves worker with life-changing injuries

The sole director of a London-based construction company has been sentenced after a 50-year-old worker was left with life-changing injuries.James Harper, who was the sole director of Cavendish Basements Limited, failed to report the incident to Britain’s workplace regulator, as required under the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations (RIDDOR) 2012.The 50-year-old man had been working for Harper on a construction site on Vant Road, London. He had...

Posted on 3 August 2026

Academy Trust site supervisor left wondering if he would survive after fall from height

Romero Catholic Academy Trust, which is responsible for 16 schools across the North West of England, has been fined £32,000 after an employee fell from the roof of a school in Burnley. Robert Baker was working as a site supervisor at St Mary’s Catholic Primary School during an inset day when the incident occurred on 2 September 2024. He had climbed up to the roof on an unsecured ladder to...

Posted on 3 August 2026

Groundworks company fined after worker seriously injured when dumper truck overturned

ed in Warrington has been fined after a worker was seriously injured when a dumper truck overturned.The incident happened on 10 October 2022 on a construction site in Ince. The driver had been reversing the one-tonne truck when it entered an unprotected excavation and overturned. The man, 27 at the time, was thrown from the vehicle as he was not wearing a seatbelt at the time. He sustained crushing injuries...

Posted on 3 August 2026

Company fined after man left ‘physically ruined’ after fall from height

A principal contractor has been fined after a man was left ‘physically ruined’ after falling from a tipping bucket on a fork lift truck in Kent.Aaron Back, 41, a father of four, spent months in hospital after the incident at the EMIR site on Wotton Road in Ashford on 28 March 2023. The then 38-year-old had been contracted by South East Refurbishment Limited to carry out work dismantling pipework. He...

Posted on 6 July 2026

Checking PASMA qualifications

Here’s a copy of your guide to checking PASMA qualifications: https://pasma.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/A-Duty-Holders-Guide-to-Checking-PASMA-Qualifications.pdf Next time someone arrives on site to assemble, alter, inspect, move or dismantle a mobile access tower or tower scaffold, you can now verify their qualifications quickly and confidently.

Posted on 6 July 2026

HSE urges construction companies to strengthen site security

As school holidays approach, construction companies across the region are being urged to take additional precautions to keep children safe this summer. While rare, children have tragically lost their lives, and others have been injured, after making their way on to unsecure and unsafe construction sites. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is calling on the construction industry to prevent children from accessing construction sites during the school holiday period,...