A road planing contractor in Leicestershire has been prosecuted after an employee’s leg became entangled in a road milling machine and had to be amputated.

A 19-year-old who died after falling six floors through a ventilation shaft should have been prevented, an investigation by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has concluded. 

A construction client has been handed a suspended prison sentence after a worker was found dead on a building site in north London.

A builder has been given a suspended prison sentence after a roof collapse destroyed an occupied home and injured three workers in Windsor.

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.

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.

A Bedfordshire joiner whose two companies failed to pay more than £300,000 in tax has been sentenced after ignoring a director disqualification.

A roofer has been fined after a worker suffered serious injuries after falling from a flat roof that did not have any edge protection.

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

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).