May 14, 2012

  A construction firm has been sentenced for safety failings after a roofer was badly injured in a fall from scaffolding at a house in Trafford. Stephen Cartwright fell approximately three metres from the scaffolding, which had no safety rail, at a detached property on Carrwood, in Hale Burns, on 31 May 2011. The 44-year-old, from Blacon near Chester,...

Apr 12, 2012

  A former scaffolding company director has been fined after two employees were injured in a scaffold collapse. A 26-year-old man working for Robert Leslie Butler fractured his left ankle and right heel as he jumped six metres from a scaffold tower at student accommodation on Radford Boulevard, Nottingham, on 24 January 2011, as it fell to the ground. A...

Apr 11, 2012

  Wates Construction and MPB Structures have been fined a total of £100,000 over an incident in 2007 when seven construction workers were injured after scaffolding collapsed at Liverpool John Moores University’s Art & Design Academy. Liverpool Crown Court heard that workers had been pumping concrete onto the third floor of the building for most...

Apr 11, 2012

  Balham High Road, Wandsworth has been closed off after scaffolding erected outside a building on the street collapsed this morning. Firefighters were called at 3.20am to remove the 10m by 8m scaffolding tower, which was lying in the road and on the pavement opposite Sainsbury’s. An infra-red camera and lights were used to make sure nobody was...