A Health and Safety Executive (HSE) inspector said it was “lucky nobody was killed” after four men were injured, including two seriously, when the first floor of a house collapsed during building works.

A contractor and a roofing company have been fined a combined £8,500 after a worker fell through a roof while working on a house extension.

Piper Homes has been fined £300,000 after a 33-year-old kitchen fitter was crushed to death by a pack of concrete blocks at a site in the Cotswolds.

Holly Caulwell explains when reporting an accident is required by law, and why going beyond the minimum requirements can be the most effective way to manage risk and keep employees safe.

A company and its director have been fined a combined £18,000 after a man was injured during excavation work in West Sussex.

A multi-national wood manufacturer has been fined more than £1m after two workers were injured in separate incidents at its plant in Cowie.

CCTV footage shared by HSE shows the moment a metal tank where two men were working exploded and was projected into the air before crashing to the ground nine seconds later.

A Mansfield-based construction company has been fined £40,000 after a builder was left paralysed from the chest down as a result of falling through a ceiling at a house renovation in Derbyshire.

A construction company has been fined £215,000 after a worker was seriously injured when a cherry picker was struck by a bus in Castlemilk, Glasgow.

A coroner has sent a report to IPAF and industry training bodies following the slow rescue of an electrician working at height, who later died in hospital.

A Belfast-based plant hire company has been fined £80,000 after a MEWP toppled off and ejected its operator, seriously injuring them.

The National Grid has been fined more than £3m after its failures left a worker with life-changing injuries from working on a pylon in South Wales.

A Cheshire-based electrical transmission company has been fined £240,000 after a man was left paralysed from the chest down after a fall at work.

EMC Elite Engineering Services Ltd has been fined £52,500 after an employee sustained serious injuries while working at an HS2 construction site in Hertfordshire.

A Manchester roofing company has been fined £20,000 after a worker fell through a roof and suffered serious injuries.

MHS Homes has been fined £528,000 after an employee repairing a fence post inadvertently struck an underground cable, suffering burns to his face.

London Fire Brigade firefighters rescued on 16 April a man who became trapped at a construction site in South East London.