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.

Amey Community Limited has been fined £600,000 after a prisoner contracted Legionnaires’ disease and died while serving a prison sentence at HMP Lincoln.

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

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 construction company has been fined £160,000 after a man was killed by a telehandler at a house build site in Glasgow.

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.

IPAF and the HSE have issued new guidance on the safe methods of isolation of platform controls for MEWPs.

The Building Safety Regulator has sanctioned two building control companies following minor breaches of the code of conduct for approved inspectors.

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.

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

A builder has been given a suspended prison sentence after he put the lives of workers at risk on a construction site in London.

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.

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.

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…