Demolition truck gets jammed under bridge. You know how it is. You get yourself a nice shiny new Scania truck and you’re justifiably proud. So you get it decked out in company colours, you have your company name brandished across the front, maybe even a spot of personalisation to ensure that the driver takes extra…Read moreRead more
Accident
Stuck for the world to see…
DSR fires back…
Rotherham contractor responds to criticism over “unauthorised” bonfire. Newspaper reports alleging that a bonfire on a demolition site in Hemel Hempstead caused panic and anger among locals have been refuted by the company involved. DSR Demolition was roundly criticised by the Hemel Hempstead Gazette which suggested that the fire had been unauthorised and that fumes…Read moreRead more
Breaking News – Adamo president killed in accident…
Accident claims life of one of US demolition’s biggest names. John T. Adamo Jr., the president of Adamo Group, has been killed in a demolition accident, a family attorney confirmed today. Adamo’s company has been a leading demolition contractor in Detroit for more than a generation and has participated most recently in the city’s extensive…Read moreRead more
DSR fined over scaffold fall…
Rotherham fined over accident that left worker with two fractured arms. A demolition company has been sentenced after pleading guilty to health and safety failings following a worker’s fall from height. The incident happened at the Hillington Industrial Estate in Glasgow on the 30 December 2011, when the 50-year-old worker was carrying out work from…Read moreRead more
Video – Lucky to be alive
Australian tourist hit by flying debris. An Australian woman was injured after being hit by falling debris on the site of what used to be the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Makati City in the Philippines yesterday afternoon. The Makati Public Safety Department told INQUIRER.net over the phone that the foreigner was conscious and rushed to…Read moreRead more
Comment – A Demolition Disgrace
DemolitionNews reports on how a US demolition contractor sent an employee on a suicide mission.
Video – Stupidity personified…
Operator lucky to be alive following flouting of safety regs and disregard of good sense. What you are about to watch simply beggars belief. A US demolition contractor whose face was already liberally smothered with egg having failed to implode an unstable chimney countenanced a demolition method that placed an operator at serious risk of…Read moreRead more
Video – Horrific Chinese accident…
Collapsing building falls onto excavator. DemolitionNews reports.
News update – Video captures massive site fire…
Blaze rips through Cantillon site. Following on from our earlier report on the fire that swept through a demolition site in London’s Old Street, video footage of the blaze has now emerged. Social media feeds were abuzz with news of the fire as smoke billowed from the site where contractor Cantillon is demolishing the former…Read moreRead more
Breaking News – Fire at Old Street site…
Blaze now under control following demolition site fire. Eight fire engines and 58 firefighters and officers were called to a fire in a building on Old Street in City of London this morning. The fire affected five floors of a six storey building under demolition and our 999 call handlers received 26 calls to what…Read moreRead more
