Articles tagged with "falls from height"

Badly planned roof work leaves a man paralysed

Construction safety is often in the spotlight due to the nature of the work and the relatively high number of accidents and deaths that happen in the sector.

Construction safety is often in the spotlight due to the nature of the work and the relatively high number of accidents and deaths that happen in the sector.

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Lone building worker dies from fall in boiler house

As we often have cause to remind our construction safety specialist readers, falls from height are the most common cause of death at work in the building trades. In this case it was a...

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Double danger as two brothers fall from height

Although we often have to report upon falls from height, it is rare that two workers are affected in the same incident.

This happened in June 2013 at Llan-y-nant Farm, nr. Trellech,...

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HSE gets tough on loft conversions

Another week, another fall from height prosecution by HSE…

But this time, the information provided reveals that the safety body is directing its inspectors to focus specificall...

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Scaffolder died from unprotected fall from height

This is a particularly nasty case, involving the death of a worker and the negligence and non-cooperation of his boss who had already been jailed for the murder of his brother.

Mark...

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