Worker partially buried by wall collapse. A man has been badly injured on a demolition site in Huddersfield, according to local newspaper reports. The worker is thought to have been partially buried when a wall collapsed at the former Deighton Centre. The man was one of a number of contractors who have been carrying out…Read moreRead more
Accident
Breaking News – Man injured on Huddersfield site…
Keltbray collapse update…
Contractor confirms that it was one of their own that was injured in this week’s collapse. Keltbray has issued a new statement on the central London collapse that left one man injured. “With reference to the incident on 20 April in Portugal Street, London, where Keltbray is working on the demolition of a building when…Read moreRead more
No demolition work scheduled on day of tragedy…
Investigations ongoing after accident that killed young family. City officials in Bonney Lake say no demolition work was supposed to take place along a Highway 410 overpass on the day that a concrete barrier fell, crushing a young family as they drove underneath the span in a pickup. “We are still looking into whether the…Read moreRead more
Demolition fire could burn for days…
Blaze started after shredder explodes. A fire that broke out at a demolition yard in Colmworth this afternoon could burn for several days yet, according to the company which owns the site. A total of 47 firefighters are continuing to tackle the inferno which started at ABC Demolition in Mill Road, Colmworth, at around 1.06…Read moreRead more
Investigations underway at site of Keltbray collapse…
Work suspended following catastrophic collapse that left one man injured. DemolitionNews.com reports
Breaking News – LSE students evacuated as building collapses…
Air ambulance called following Aldwych collapse. Some 200 people, including workers and students at the London School of Economics (LSE) have been evacuated from the area around Aldwych after a building in Portugal Street collapsed. The building is also close to the Royal Courts of Justice and Lincoln’s Inn Fields. Witnesses reported a “large crash”…Read moreRead more
Did contractor follow plan in tragic contract…?
Mayor questions whether contractor followed its own demolition plan. Bonney Lake Mayor Neil Johnson said it appears to him that Highway 410 overpass contractors didn’t follow their own detailed demolition plan, when a long piece of concrete barrier fell and killed a young family in a pickup below. The accident, at 10:30 a.m. Monday, happened…Read moreRead more
Video – Another bridge tragedy unfolds…
Family of three killed as concrete barrier falls onto road below. A young Washington State family, including an infant boy, was killed in a nightmare stroke of bad luck when a concrete barrier fell from an overpass onto a moving pickup. Josh and Vanessa Ellis and their 8-month-old baby Hudson were identified as the unlucky…Read moreRead more
Worker killed in Black Sea hotel collapse…
Demolition industry adds yet another name to its tragic tally. A man has died when an old hotel building collapsed during demolition works at Saints Konstantin and Elena resort on Bulgaria’s Black Sea coast, Nova TV has reported. The deceased man was member of a team of workers hired to take down the disused Veronika…Read moreRead more
Video – Close call for surveyors…
Roof collapses while derelict building is being inspected. Officials are thanking their lucky stars this morning after a building they were inspecting in Waverly partially collapsed while they were on the roof. The derelict building had lain empty for two years and was being inspected prior to a planned demolition. Now, having been rendered unsafe…Read moreRead more