By Daniel Norton Fred Lewis Scaffolding Ltd has been prosecuted after a scaffolder fell seven metrers through a roof in Stoke-on-Trent. Father of three Gary Hampton,28, had been erecting scaffolding at a factory in Plantation Road, Newstead...

By Daniel Norton John Altoft, 29, from Scunthorpe was tragicly killed after an accident at Cemex UK cement plant in Rugby. On January 18 Mr Altoft was working for Cape on nights at the Warwickshire cement plant...

  Scaffolders erected scaffolding around a four-story building over a period of 3 days in Camden, London only to be told after FIVE days of it being finished.. “Sorry lads you got the wrong address”. Staff at...

  A company has admitted two offences under health and safety legislation following the death of a scaffolder at Davidstow Creamery, near Camelford in Cornwall. Steel fabricator and erector business Dartmeet Services Ltd is to be sentenced...

  Investigations are continuing after a lorry driver died after being run over by his own trailer outside Reading railway station. The 69-year-old was on the service road behind the Apex Plaza building, just before midnight last...

  The site engineer and labour supervisor at the Dubailand project where a scaffolding collapse killed two workers at the weekend have been charged with criminal negligence. Police also confirmed yesterday the death of a third man,...

  A scaffolder has been killed in an industrial accident at the Cemex plant in the early hours of this morning (Wednesday). A spokesman for the Lawford Road plant confirmed a 29-year-old man working as a scaffolder...

  Harsco Infrastructure has today confirmed to ScaffMag that the company is currently restructuring its operations in the UK. Harsco Infrastructure has confirmed that it is to restructure its operations in the UK, a move which will...

  UK based industrial support and contract scaffold specialist Pyeroy, has opened an Aberdeen office to handle its growing offshore industrial contract work. The company says that the move will create a number of new jobs in...

  Siteserv scaffolding subsidiary Deborah Services is owed £1.49m for work carried-out at the Coryton Refinery for struggling industrial giant Petroplus. Siteserv confirmed the debt in a Stock Exchange announcement as Petroplus continues to face a cash...