Scaffolder Edward Arthur, 21, sustained a shoulder injury while at work just days before he was due to face Sam Creasy in his first semi-professional fight.
Edward, who trains under Hemel Martial Arts founder Denniston Sutherland, is the latest promising fighter to emerge from the club and make his mark in the world of martial arts.
His last bout, held in March, saw him defeat Leroy Dex in an amateur class fight held in Slough.
The man was working on a scaffold for chimney work at a property in Abbotshall Road in the city’s Cults area when for some unknown reason the man fell from the scaffold.
Emergency services rushed the 68 year old to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary where his injures are today not thought to be life threatening.
Pyeroy was founded in 1973 as a protective coatings company, but diversified in the mid nineties after a large amount of key north east ship yards closed.
The company now providing specialist scaffolding, asbestos handling and industrial painting services that are being used currently as Pyeroy are responsible for painting the Forth Rail Bridge.
Pyeroy last year had a number of profitable contracts, including £14m of new work within its industrial services sector.
Also work on a £3m contract at Rio Tinto Alcan’s Lynemouth site to install access scaffolding and cleaning of its coal fired power station is now complete.
The managing director of Pyeroy Hugh Pelham said
“This is a good set of results despite the continuing economic pressures and we are well- placed to see strong growth continue well into the future.
“Our strategy of focusing on providing added value solutions is clearly succeeding and paying dividends as we have continued to win major work across the board cementing our position as a leading provider of specialist industrial services.”
Pelham also said: “We now have in place a highly-skilled and motivated workforce, which together with a continued focus on delivering quality, is seeing us emerge strongly from the some of the worst trading conditions for decades.”
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As they reported last week that the theft took place from a secure yard behind The Royal Hotel in St Nicholas Street and appealed to the public for help.
But yesterday they reveald that thae scaffolding had actuly been stolen from a lock up behind a petrol satation in Scamor Road.
It is believed that the scaffold tubes are worth £5K. They ranged in length from between 4ft – 12ft, in total 260 tubes were stolen.
PC Craig Malia said “This was a substantial amount of scaffolding it would have needed a large wagon to load it all up in one visit or numerous visits with a smaller vehicle.”
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Harsco received the award in recognition of its work on the Heron Tower project in London, which included the development and installation of Europe’s tallest ‘double-decker,’ and the UK’s highest ever, Mast Climbing Work Platform (MCWP).
The IAPA awards are given to mark examples of best practice and excellence in the powered access industry, with judges selecting the winners on their imaginative, unusual or technically demanding solutions to access problems. In Harsco’s case this revolved around creating a bespoke, 180-metre high mast climbing MCWP which enabled large-format, blast-proof cladding to be installed on the outside of Heron Tower. According to cladding contractor Scheldebouw, this was something that ‘just wasn’t possible’ with standard access equipment.
The project highlighted Harsco’s ability to offer engineered access solutions which go beyond the normal equipment hire parameters. It also underlined Harsco’s skills in enabling the customer to speed up the schedule of cladding work while still ensuring complete safety for the workforce.
“We’re delighted to win this award,” comments Harsco Infrastructure’s European Managing Director, Paul O’Kelly. “This is one of many projects that illustrate our innovative approach and commitment to the continuous development of the powered access market and the Award shows that our efforts and our successes are being recognised and acknowledged.” A 52-year-old Staten Island man waiting at a red traffic light in the westbound lane of Sip Avenue at 9:34 p.m., said he saw a Ford traveling north on Kennedy Boulevard hit a two-door Honda that was heading south and turning left onto Sip Avenue.
The Ford then careened into scaffolding surrounding a building at 2800 Kennedy Blvd. and slammed into the building, reports said.
The man driving the Ford was treated at Jersey City Medical Center for non-life threatening head injuries but could not make a statement to police, reports said.
The four occupants of the Honda, including a 19-year-old driver and three other Jersey City residents, were taken to Jersey City Medical Center where they were treated for minor cuts and abrasions, reports said.
The driver of the Honda, who lives on Passaic Avenue, told police that the Ford was traveling at a “high rate of speed.”
Via: www.nj.com Dean Hearne, 42, was found by his mother at the family home on Wigmore Road, Carshalton on January 8.
An inquest heard the father of three, who worked as a scaffolder, had been feeling down in the months before his death, because he had not seen his children.
The night before he died, he was taken for a drink by his nephew Mark Hayes, in an attempt to cheer him up. Whilst out, Dean told him: “You will miss me when I’m gone,” but the court heard Mr Hayes thought nothing of the comment.
When he returned home at around 2.15am, Dean asked his mum to have another drink with him, but when she refused, he told her he loved her and she went back to bed.
She discovered his body the following morning, when she went downstairs.
His sister Karen Acres, said: “Dean was a popular and well known person, who was loved dearly. He was always the life and soul of the party and he loved going fishing.
“Dean loved his children dearly and was a lovely son, wonderful brother and a really caring uncle. He will be greatly missed and loved always, never ever forgotten by his family and friends.”
Recording an open verdict, Coroner Roy Palmer said: “I do not have the evidence to say it was an accident, but I do not have enough evidence to persuade me that he meant to die.”
A poem written as a tribute to Dean said:
“Dean told me our love would never die, but your soul fled to the sky. My heart broken in two. Having the heartache and pain embraced in my heart. Missing your smile from your face and the tender touch of your lips, your arms tightly around my hips. These memories now stored in my head, now and forever more. With all those dreams we once shared, I bid you farwell Dean as someday we shall meet again My lover, my soul mate, my best friend, Mr ? xxx” The scaffolding was taken sometime during a two-week period between Friday 1 April 2011 and Wednesday 13 April 2011, from a secure yard at the rear of the Royal Hotel, in St Nicholas Street.The men were taken to Noble’s Hospital with injuries including broken ribs and lacerations, and have since returned to their homes in the United Kingdom.
The accident happened at around 1pm on Thursday, and the men were working for a UK-based sub-contractor as cladding installers.
A spokesman for the Island’s Health and Safety at Work Inspectorate said they were detained in hospital overnight, but their injuries ‘certainly weren’t life threatening’.
He said the investigation would include interviewing people and sending items for forensic examination, with the aim of finding the cause of the accident and trying to prevent a similar thing happening again.