Three Keltbray managers accepted £600,000 in bribes. Leading industry news portal Construction Enquirer is reporting this morning that three former Keltbray site managers have been found guilty of accepting £600,000 of bribes from a specialist labour supply agency. The Keltbray managers, Michael McCarthy, Simon Lacey, and John Burke, were convicted of receiving the bribes, which…Read moreRead more
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BAM and Erith in legal spat
Construction News is today reporting of a legal spat between Brown and Mason and Erith over the awarding of a contract to demolish the Aberthaw Power Station in Wales. Cardiff Council has admitted that it broke procurement law when it awarded the project to Erith after Brown and Mason brought a claim over “multiple breaches”…Read moreRead more
Great Yarmouth – Answers at last
Waste giant Veolia has been fined three million pounds after a man died and another was seriously injured while decommissioning a North Sea gas rig back in 2019. Stephen Picken and Mark Kumar were working at an onshore facility in Great Yarmouth. Both men were working as demolition operatives, undertaking the decommissioning and dismantlement of…Read moreRead more
Firm fined over ceiling collapse fatality
A company has been fined £450,000 and the firm’s director has received a suspended prison sentence after a labourer was crushed to death at a site in the Midlands in 2019. Simon Briggs, principal director of Stonehurst Estates Ltd, was sentenced to 23 weeks’ imprisonment, suspended for 18 months, for a health and safety offence…Read moreRead more
Worker buried by ceiling collapse
Court hears of “woeful” safety standard. A worker was crushed to death beneath a falling ceiling at a building site where health and safety measures were described as ‘woeful’. Oleksander Rudyy was killed at the scene in Vittoria Street, Hockley on May 8 in 2019. The 49-year-old, known as ‘Sasha’, was not a ‘builder by…Read moreRead more
Firm fined over worker fall
A building company has been fined after a demolition worker suffered serious injuries after falling from a platform in Kensington in London. Ovidiu Dobra was working for Henry Construction Projects Limited at a building site on Kensington High Street when the incident happened on 2 March 2021. Dobra was working on the ten-foot high platform…Read moreRead more
Paltry fine for power station fatality
A £5,000 fine has been levied against a demolition contractor after an employee – Gary Robertson – fell to his death when a rusty pipe bridge platform collapsed. The incident happened on 6th February 2019 at Longannet Power Station, Fife. By September 2020 the contractor concerned – Brown & Mason Ltd – was in administration…Read moreRead more
Nominal fine for fractured ankle…
A contractor has been fined £600 after an employee was hit by falling debris from a wall that was being demolished in an unsafe manner. Blackpool Magistrates’ Court heard that on 10th January 2020, Barrowbridge Construction Limited had been contracted to demolish a garage in Clitheroe, Lancashire. Three operatives pushed over the remaining part of…Read moreRead more
Dangerous digger driver fined…
A digger driver has been sentenced after police were forced to stop him causing chaos on a Blackburn demolition site. Blackpool Magistrates’ Court heard how Peter Walling’s company had been contracted to demolish a former medical centre in Blackburn and clear the land ready for development. Between 15 November and 6 December 2018, four separate…Read moreRead more
Costly cloud…
Failure to control dust leads to settlement. More than seven months after an implosion covered Little Village in a cloud of dust, Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul has settled a lawsuit against Hilco Redevelopment Partners and its contractors. Raoul announced the settlement Thursday, which will require Hilco to pay $370,000 into a fund to support…Read moreRead more
