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

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 scaffolding company has been fined £30,000 after failing to assemble safe scaffolding following an investigation by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE).

CCTV footage shared by the Health and Safety Executive shows the moment a welder was crushed while working at a shipyard in Sunderland.

A self-employed roofer has received a suspended prison sentence after a man suffered serious injuries after falling from a scaffold in Devon.

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 Manchester building company and its director have been sentenced after workers were exposed to asbestos.

A company director has been jailed for eight months after failing to protect workers from exposure to asbestos at a development project in Winchester.

A total of 27 members of a gang that created a false audit trail to enable clients to operate in the construction industry without paying tax or VAT have been sentenced.