A construction company and its director have been fined after being found guilty of safety breaches that resulted in a five-year-old child being injured by a falling cast iron pipe.

Ninety-five percent of employers in recent inspections by the HSE failed to verify whether workers wearing hearing protection could still detect vital warning signals, such as fire alarms and vehicle reversing alerts.

HSE is warning about the risk of people being struck by an excavator or a load if the machine’s operator doesn’t use the isolation device correctly.

Tata Steel has been fined £1.5m after following the death of a contractor at its Port Talbot steelworks plant on 25 September 2019.

A London property developer has been fined £40,000 after a member of the public was crushed by a faulty falling lift at a residential property.

A joinery firm in Middlesbrough has been fined £10,000 after an unannounced visit by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) two years ago found multiple health and safety breaches.

A gas fitter from Norfolk has been jailed after carrying out unsafe gas work in a home while suspended from the Gas Safe Register.

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.

An Altrincham-based construction company has been fined £165,000 after it repeatedly failed to implement fire precautions during the renovation of a residential project in Preston.

Footage taken by a member of the public shows the immediate aftermath of a gas explosion that left a worker with burns so serious, he has been unable to work since.

A demolition company has been fined after a worker fell six metres through a roof opening suffering serious injuries during the demolition of a vacant warehouse in Aberdeen.

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 construction site supervisor has been fined after he exposed primary school pupils and staff to asbestos during renovation work.

Taylor Wimpey has been fined £800,000 after an apprentice less than 12 months into his career was injured when a temporary stairwell covering collapsed.

A 30-year-old worker suffered life-changing injuries following a fall from height during a sheep barn conversion in Leyburn, North Yorkshire.

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.

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.

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is recruiting four registered building inspectors to join the Building Safety Regulator (BSR) on a permanent basis.