Tag: fatal

Palmyra House in WarringtonDennis Vincent, aged 36, and a colleague were using ropes to install a lightning protection system to the front of a Warrington office block being converted into flats. Mr Vincent, who was from Stoke-on-Trent, was lowering the access equipment from the roof,...

Jonathan May, 39, from Horbury, Wakefield, was a subcontractor for Davis Industrial Roofing Limited, working on a storm-damaged warehouse roof in December 2016 on the Carlton Industrial Estate in Barnsley. He was part of a three-man team replacing more than 300 storm-damaged skylights on a...

Individuals, rather than any corporate entities, were put in the dock at Newcastle Crown Court having pleaded guilty to health & safety breaches. Newcastle Crown Court heard how, on 16th November 2015, a roofer fell through fragile asbestos cement roof panels while carrying out over-cladding...

“The company that was contracted to construct the drain, Carillion, did not undertake construction in accordance with the designer’s requirements,” says the report by the Rail Accident Investigation Branch. “Consequently, the drainage system was unable to perform as the designer had intended when it was...