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…

BAM Nuttall has been fined £2.345m after a worker drowned in the River Aire on 30 October 2017.

Van Elle has been fined £233,000 after a 52-year-old HGV driver was struck and killed by the mast of a piling rig.

UK telecommunications company Openreach has been fined £1.34 million after an engineer died while trying to repair a telephone line.

A vigil was held on 31 May at a Berkeley Group’s St George site in north London where a construction worker was killed.

A carpentry contractor has been fined £8,000 after a 22-year-old man died following an accident at a building site.

Erith has been fined £175,000 following the death of one of its employees.

A Hertfordshire company has been fined after a 22-year-old employee was crushed to death by an excavator.

NG Bailey Limited has been fined £135,000 following the death of a worker last year.

Construction company Amberley Homes (Kent) Ltd has been fined £25,000 after a sub-contractor fell and died from his injuries.

A worker has died after suffering an accident at a Microsoft construction site in Park Royal, West London, on 11 February.