Crews forced to stop work after concrete falls from New York bridge, damaging cars beneath. Demolition work on a New York bridge has been halted after falling debris damaged cars on the streets below. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey says chunks of concrete fell off the Bayonne Bridge early Monday and…Read moreRead more
Accident
Video – Bridge demolition halted over debris concerns…
Breaking News – Excavator falls through floor of snooker hall…
Company snookered after machine crashes through floor. A Nottinghamshire-based demolition company has been left red-faced and blue, a ittle green around the gills and receiving black looks after one of its machines fell through the floor during the demolition of a former Rhyl snooker hall. The incident has happened at the Breaks Snooker Club –…Read moreRead more
MP calls for demolition of tower blocks…
Iain Duncan Smith has called for demolition of tower blocks in wake of Grenfell disaster. placing them with “proper family friendly housing”. Iain Duncan Smith said people do not want to live in tower blocks. Speaking to LBC’s Andrew Pierce he said: “I’ve yet to meet a constituent who has ever said to me ‘I…Read moreRead more
Comment – Trespass by another name…
DemolitionNews looks at the growing problem and inherent dangers of the so-called urban exploration craze.
Grenfell triggers call for health and safety “sea change”…
UK Government urged to end health and safety deregulation following Grenfell Tower blaze The UK Government has been urged to scrap its approach to deregulation of health and safety legislation in the light of the Grenfell Tower blaze. In an open letter to Prime Minister Theresa May, over 70 leading organisations and figures from the…Read moreRead more
Comment – Nothing can prepare demolition workers for this…
Like many of my fellow countrymen, I awoke this morning to the tragic and terrible news of the fire that engulfed and seemingly destroyed the Grenfell Tower residential block in West London. It is too early to speculate, but news sources suggest there have been multiple fatalities. It is trite but, having grown up in…Read moreRead more
Operator killed on Indian site…
Young worker crushed beneath excavator as it falls into unseen basement. The demolition of the fire-ravaged Chennai Silks building on Usman Road in Thyagaraya Nagar was suspended on Saturday after a 22-year-old operator of an excavator died in an accident at the site. One of the two excavators that were involved in the demolition work…Read moreRead more
Video – Almost a trip to A&E…
Demolition video sparks safety concerns as block narrowly misses excavator. Dramatic video from a Tennessee demolition project has state regulators investigating the safety of workers at the site. That video captured what witnesses thought was a potentially dangerous mishap as a building was “tripped”. It occurred in the shadow of Saint Thomas West Hospital near…Read moreRead more
Video – When demolition goes sideways…
When you want a building to go left, sometimes it goes right. The Holy Crap Files – our collection of films from demolition’s darkside – has been swelled by another video, this time from the good ol’ US of A. All looks straightforward enough – Take down a building and allow it to fall into…Read moreRead more
Video – Chimney collapses on Chinese demolition worker…
Horrific incident caught on camera. China might have built the world’s largest economy but it still has much to learn about modern health and safety, as this new video proves. Unfortunately, the country apparently works on the basis that – with a potential workforce of 1 billion people or more – workers are expendable. How…Read moreRead more
