Lifting operations

A construction firm must pay £63,000 after being spotted using a makeshift platform for a mobile crane and failing to use edge protection on a scaffold platform.

PCR Steel has been convicted of safety failings after a worker was crushed by a balcony frame weighing about 400kg.

More than half of Britain’s working days lost in 2019/20 were due to mental ill-health.

A transport company has been fined after a worker was fatally injured when the pallet of stone tiles he was attempting to deliver fell onto him.

An employee was using an overhead crane with a C-shaped hook to clean underneath a vertical borer machine when a plate fell.

An Auckland company with a history of health and safety failings has appeared in court

The director of a construction firm has received a six-month custodial sentence, suspended for 24 months, for failing to plan the lifting of roof trusses.

The operator of Walkabout pubs has been prosecuted after a stack of chairs crushed a worker in a service lift.

A Carlisle auto-salvage company has been fined after a customer was fatally crushed when a lift truck he had purchased was being loaded onto his own recovery vehicle.

A 33-year-old Lithuanian worker has been killed at a London construction site after a re-enforced concrete slab collapsed following an order from his supervisor to remove the props supporting it.