A self‑employed contractor has been jailed after a teenager fell to his death during demolition works on a property in Surrey.

The Office for Nuclear Regulation has revealed that Balfour Beatty will be prosecuted following a fatality at the Atomic Weapons Establishment’s Aldermaston site.

A construction company has been fined £1 million after a road resurfacing project ended in tragedy in May 2022.

A building company has been fined £56,775 after one of its employees was crushed to death when a 1.8m high retaining wall collapsed onto him.

Thirty-five construction workers were killed in work-related incidents between April 2024 and March 2025, the latest Health and Safety Executive annual fatalities statistics show.

The director of a Leicester-based construction company has been given a suspended prison sentence after a man fell from height while working on site and died in hospital weeks later.

A company now in liquidation and its operations manager have both been fined after a worker fell to his death through a roof at the firm’s site in Dudley.

A specialist contractor with “outdated attitudes to managing health and safety” has been fined £60,000 after a worker fell to his death from a church steeple in Birmingham.

BAM Nuttall has been fined £800,000 after a 23-year-old agency worker died when a skip’s bale arm fell on top of him during the construction of a wind farm on the Shetland Islands.

A temporary access equipment company has been fined £1.6m after a 24-year-old worker was crushed to death.

Balfour Beatty has been fined £285,000 after a worker died and another was seriously injured in a scissor lift accident.

A company that specialises in groundworks and drainage works has been fined £75,000 after a man died while working inside an excavation at a construction site in Glasgow.

Disturbing construction fatalities figures show that the industry needs to do more to improve health and safety, writes Caroline Gumble.

A coroner has raised concerns about the common practice among road maintenance workers to use the space between the rear axles of trucks to urinate after a man was fatally run over.

Two companies have been fined a total of £76,000 after a worker was crushed to death by a machine on 24 February 2020.

A recycling company has been fined £3m after a man died and another was seriously injured while decommissioning a North Sea gas rig.

Avant Homes has been fined £333,000 after a driver was crushed to death by falling concrete blocks at a construction site in South Lanarkshire.

Deaths in construction have risen with a worker dying almost every week. Last year, 51 people died at work in construction compared with 47 the previous year, Health and Safety…