A shop sign making and fitting company and its director have been fined after an employee fell from an unguarded scaffolding tower and later died from his injuries. Mr Mughal, 64, was working for WH Metals Limited installing a metal sign to the front of the shop in Darwen, Lancashire on 22 November 2022. He was standing on the platform of a scaffolding tower without any edge protection in place,...
Read moreTwo companies have been fined after a man fell through a fragile rooflight at a factory in Keighley, impaling his leg on machinery below. A.T. Lee Properties Limited and LJH Property Limited were fined a combined total of more than £95,000 following a prosecution by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). Directors for each firm were also given conditional discharges and ordered to pay prosecution costs. The man fell through...
Read moreA construction company that specialises in road resurfacing in London has been fined £1m after one of its employees was killed by a reversing road-sweeper. Robert Morris, 48, was working on the resurfacing of Pemberton Road in Haringey for Marlborough Highways Limited on 30 May 2022. A colleague was at the wheel of the vehicle and Robert was struck while it was reversing. A joint investigation was launched between the...
Read moreA London contractor has been given a suspended prison sentence after risking the lives of workers and ignoring action taken by Britain’s workplace regulator. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) ordered Mohammed Mehdi Ali to stop working at a construction site in Willesden on 7 September 2018. Inspectors visited the Willesden Lane site and found unplanned, unsupervised and unsafe work was putting people at serious risk of injury. Workers had...
Read moreA builder has been given a suspended prison sentence after a roof collapse destroyed a home and injured three workers in Windsor. Jack Savva, 70, was given a 13-month custodial sentence, suspended for two years, following the incident on 6 August 2020. Savva, of Wraysbury in Surrey, was carrying out a loft conversion on the property in Springfield Road, when the gable wall fell into the building after the roof...
Read moreThe Construction Leadership Council (CLC) has launched a mental health in construction consultation. CLC published this consultation after identifying mental health as a priority focus area at its Health Safety and Wellbeing Summit in July. As part of CLC’s wider Health, Safety and Wellbeing Strategy, the aim of the project is to create an environment that fosters better mental health for the people that work in the UK construction industry....
Read moreA shop sign making and fitting company and its director have been fined after an employee fell from an unguarded scaffolding tower and later died from his injuries. Mr Mughal, 64, was working for WH Metals Limited installing a metal sign to the front of the shop in Darwen, Lancashire on 22 November 2022. He was standing on the platform of a scaffolding tower without any edge protection in place,...
Read moreHSE’s most recent inspection campaign, including construction sites, identified significant failings in workplace hearing protection. Key findings showed: 75% of employees lacked essential knowledge about storing, checking for damage or reporting faults with hearing protection. 63% had not received guidance on continuous wearing during noise exposure. 80% received no instruction on proper wearing techniques. 95% of employers failed to verify workers could still hear vital warning signals when wearing hearing...
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