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Scaffolder turns benefit fraudster

A MAN was paid £30,000 in incapacity and other benefits claiming he was unfit for work while he had jobs in the scaffolding trade. Leeds...

Scaffolder balanced eight metres without safety harness

A Hastings scaffolder has today been fined for endangering himself and others after working on a four-storey scaffold with no harness. Hastings Magistrates' Court heard...

New Harsco contract worth £6m with Tata Steel

Harsco Infrastructure, which is part of the worldwide industrial services and engineered products provider Harsco Corporation, has announced a new contract which adds significantly...

SIG sells Beaver84 scaffolding

SIG has sold Beaver 84, its UK scaffolding and fencing sale and hire operation, to Altrad Group. The sale is effective immediately. Altrad is a privately...

Saltend jobs row warning of “National Day Of Action”

Warning of mass "Walkout's" involving thousands of workers across the United Kingdom in a "National Day of Action". As previously reported on ScaffMag there has...

GMB Union leader arrested at Saltend job’s row

GMB official Phil Whitehurst was arrested yesterday by Humberside Police for a public order offence outside the Saltend plant near Hull. A national official of...

C.I.T.B cuts ties with the C.S.C.S

Move marks end of 16-year tie-up with the Construction Skills Certification Scheme The future of the industry’s skills card scheme was thrown into question this...

Workmen saved from death by “Sausage and Egg Butty” after scaffolding collapsed

Workers demolishing 18 boarded up houses was saved by tucking into there breakfast as the scaffolding they were working on collapsed. The workers were lucky...

Scaffolder ear biter gets four years

A Scaffolder who bit off "a substantial" part of another man's ear has been jailed for four years. Simon Burrows, aged 35, was already on...

Scaffolding along a street in Stoke-on-Trent collapses

Scaffolding around a row of terraced houses due for demolition in north Staffordshire has collapsed. The scaffolding was in place in Wellington Road in the...

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