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A contractor has been ordered to pay £115,000 after a worker fell from a roof and was left in a coma for six weeks. Southwark Crown Court fined MH Costa ....
Worker’s site injury costs construction firms £400,000 Two construction firms have been ordered to pay more than £400,000 in fines and costs after a worker was injured when an air conditioning plant fell on him. Southwark Crown Court heard that, on 10 November 2017, three roofers were working on Bromley High Street in London, finishing off a large roof refurbishment project. The workers were instructed to dismantle a decommissioned air conditioning plant and remove it from the roof in high winds. As part of the plant was being lowered, it became detached from the rope and hook. It fell and struck one of the workers on the pavement below, fracturing his left femur. ....
A builder has been sentenced to almost six months in prison after failing to report an accident on site that led to a worker having his leg amputated. Paul Adams, of Surrey Conversions, has been sentenced to 24 weeks in custody after a worker on his site who hadn’t been trained on using an excavator suffered severe leg injuries when the digger tipped over during construction work. According to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), Adams failed to report the incident as he was meant to and it was only able to start investigating the incident eight months after it happened when the injured worker made a complaint. ....