An Irishman has sustained critical injuries following a fall at a construction site in Australia. The man fell several stories from scaffolding at a site in Surfers Paradise near Brisbane.…
Read articleFatal farm accidents have made up 50% of all workplace accidents so far this year, according to the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Michael Creed. This is despite…
Read articleTwo London based construction contractors have been ordered to pay more than £200,000 in fines and costs after a worker fell three metres when a scaffold board broke. Sager Construction…
Read articleNobody was injured after an empty double decker bus rolled backwards down a ramp at Dublin Airport yesterday morning. Sources at the scene said the matter was under investigation but…
Read articleOn Wednesday 5th July in Tralee Circuit Court, an engineering company, Ellickson Engineering Ltd (in receivership), was fined a total €750,000 before Judge Thomas O’Donnell. On the 2nd March 2017,…
Read articleEight people were killed after an Indonesian search and rescue helicopter deployed to survey a volcanic eruption crashed. The Indonesian Search and Rescue Agency’s helicopter was carrying four rescuers and…
Read articleThe driver of a front loader vehicle that accidentally hit and killed a baby boy did not know the tragedy had happened until after leaving the farm. Bill Bennett, who…
Read articleTwo construction companies have been fined after a woman was struck by scaffolding fittings dropped from a crane. Weymouth Magistrates’ Court heard how employees of Carter Training Ltd were using…
Read articleA London roofing company has been fined £160,000 plus costs after a worker fell two storeys onto a concrete floor. Southwark Crown Court heard how 56-year old Ali Mucoj had…
Read articleSeparate investigations are underway after a man was crushed by an articulated trailer at Dublin Port. The man, aged in his 60s, was helping to load the trailer onto a…
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