Tag: failings

The incident, four years ago, involved a man working for MH Costa Construction on a house in London. He fell more than three metres through a skylight and suffered head injuries that led to him being in a coma for six weeks. MH Costa Construction,...

The investigation by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) found Mullberry Homes failed to plan, manage, and monitor health and safety work on construction sites across England. Mullberry Homes was given a series of Notification of Contravention (NoC) letters, official correspondence that outline how firms...

72 people were killed when the 24-storey building caught fire on 14th June 2017Luke Bisby, a professor of fire and structures at Edinburgh University, is an expert witness to the official Grenfell Tower Inquiry. His testimony, available online via www.grenfelltowerinquiry.org.uk, sets out the details of...

Folkestone magistrates heard how, in August 2021, an employee of Jewson in Margate received life-changing injuries while another received deep cuts and lacerations when a load of metal mesh sheets toppled from the forks of a lift truck. Officers from Thanet District Council’s public protection...

Manchester Magistrates’ Court heard that on 31st October 2019, two employees of H Cumberbirch & Son were injured at a property in Over Alderley, Cheshire when the makeshift platform they were working on collapsed. The two men, along with plywood boards and bricks, fell approximately...