Two separate incidents; three workers killed. Yesterday will go down as one of the worst in recent US demolition history. In the space of 24 hours, the industry claimed three lives in two separate and deadly incidents. Two workers were killed after falling down an elevator shaft in downtown St. Louis. The accident occurred inside…Read moreRead more
Accident
Dark day for US demolition…
Comment – A dangerous precedent…
Massive fine could be merely the tip of the iceberg. Yesterday’s story about the monumental fine handed down to Mick George Ltd gained traction the moment I hit the upload button. In its first hour online, the story passed the 100 reads, 500 reads and 1,000 reads milestones faster than any other story this year….Read moreRead more
Mick George Ltd hit with hefty fine…
Firm fined after tipper came into contact with overhead power lines. Northampton Crown Court heard that on 9 March 2016 a driver employed by Mick George Ltd was emptying a load of soil from his tipper vehicle at a site in Northampton. Mick George Ltd had already identified the need for Permanent Protection Structures (goalposts)…Read moreRead more
Firm fined over scaffolder injury…
Worker struck by concrete panel during link bridge demolition. A demolition company has been fined after a worker suffered multiple injuries when he was struck by a concrete spandrel panel. Manchester Magistrates’ Court heard how Vale Park Demolition Services Limited was contracted to demolish a link bridge structure at Littleborough Primary School, Rochdale. On 29…Read moreRead more
Breaking News – Maidenhead scaffold collapse…
Parked cars damaged as scaffold falls into street. Scaffolding erected to facilitate the Colonade demolition for the Chapel Arches project has collapsed, damaging several parked cars. The scaffolding collapsed this around noon today (Monday) at the Colonnade, High Street, Maidenhead. Thames Valley Police said: “We were called shortly before midday to reports that scaffolding had…Read moreRead more
Video – Brush with death…
Only quick reactions saved this man. Less than a week after a woman was killed on a London street when a pallet of bricks fell from a tower crane, a man has had a narrow escape as a chunk of concrete flew from a London demolition site, missing him by inches. According to reports in…Read moreRead more
Video – Danish silo blast goes horribly wrong…
Harbour silo falls onto public library. Danish demolition contractors were left red-faced this weekend when the planned implosion of a harbour-side silo went horribly awry. ‘I simply do not know how it may have gone so bad,’ blasting manager Kenneth Wegge told Danish new network TV EAST.
Video – Excavator lies down at hotel…
Operator unscathed as machine falls partially into void. You know you’re having a bad day when you’re minding your own business when suddenly the ground swallows one of your machine’s tracks. And you know your day is about to get a whole lot worse when you realise that someone was filming you when it happened.
Video – Worker fined over site crush incident…
WARNING – This video contains graphic images. An employee of a skip firm has been sentenced after causing serious injury to a pedestrian. Southwark Crown Court was shown CCTV footage of the incident which took place on 2 August 2017. The footage showed Mr Daividas Rupeika driving into another excavator at the site in Wimbledon,…Read moreRead more
Video – Amateurs at work…
Stand well back; this is NOT going to end well. YouTube, it seems, is filled to the rafters with video footage of demolition being done poorly, unprofessionally or unsafely. Doe that mean that the watching world has a morbid fascination with demolition going awry; or is this merely a sad indictment of the sheer volume…Read moreRead more
