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A Scottish construction firm has been fined after falling materials struck a worker and killed him during refurbishment work at a retail unit. J B Barbour and Co, of Lawmoor Street, Dixons Blazes Industrial Estate, Glasgow pleaded guilty to breaching Section 2 (1) and Section 3 (1) of the Health and

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A demolition firm has been fined £5,000 after a worker fell from a scaffolding platform in Glasgow and suffered severe injuries. DSR Demolition Limited pleaded guilty to breaching Regulation 6(3) of the Work at Height Regulations 2005 and Section 33(1)(c) of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974.

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DJ Laing group sales director Karen Nicholl was at Forfar Sheriff Court for the verdict Angus civil engineering firm DJ Laing (Contracts) Ltd has been fined £32,000 over an accident that left a 17-year-old employee permanently disfigured and facing arthritis in his legs, The Courier has reported.

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Planning permission for the new Oban High School has officially been granted after the Scottish Government decided not to call the £24 million project in for review. Argyll and Bute Council announced in August that it was minded to approve the facility but that it notified Scottish Minsters of a fo

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Plans for a new £24 million modern education facility in Oban took a step forward yesterday after Argyll and Bute Council announced it was minded to grant planning permission for the new school. Due to the formal objection from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), a statutory consultee, the counc

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A new digital service making it easier and quicker for developers to access land use planning information and advice becomes available today. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is launching the enhanced pre-application service to reduce the amount of red tape involved in the planning process, whi

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Measures to reduce the levels of a potentially harmful gas in three Highland schools have been revealed by the local authority. The Highland Council began a programme of inspections for levels of naturally occurring radon gas at 34 schools throughout the region in November last year.

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Construction death rates in the UK have fallen in 2014/2015 with 35 fatalities recorded by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) from 44 the year before. Despite strongly recovering workloads, the provisional annual data show fatalities are 22 per cent down on the average of 45 over the last five ye

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Morris & Spottiswood has been fined £200,000 after a worker was crushed to death by a steel frame at a building site in Glasgow. Daniel Hurley, then aged 31, died after a 1.6 tonne steel frame fell on top of him at the site in Murano Street, Maryhill, in October 2009.

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A construction company has admitted to breaching health and safety laws after a worker was crushed to death by a steel frame at a building site in Glasgow. Daniel Hurley, 31, died after a 1.6 tonne steel frame fell on top of him at the site in Murano Street, Maryhill, on 15 October 2009.

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A construction company has been fined £10,000 after two workmen sustained “profound” injuries when the structure they were standing on collapsed. John Quinn, 35, and Joshua Perry, 21, were employed by Lichfield-based Clive Thompson Installations Ltd when on 22 January 2014 they accessed the par

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Bellway Homes has been ordered to pay nearly £50,000 after a bricklayer suffered back injuries in a three metre fall when a temporary platform collapsed. Bricklayer Daniel Kersey, 64, was injured on the Mitford Fields development in Reading on 5th August 2013. He was working on a platform over a st

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A construction worker has died after collapsing on a building site in Aberdeenshire. The 39-year-old man, who has not yet been named, was treated at the scene by paramedics and taken to hospital but later died.

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An Aberdeen-based building and joinery firm has been sentenced after a worker suffered serious injuries when he fell three metres from scaffolding that he was dismantling. John William Wilson, then 47 and from Aberdeen, broke his left ankle, damaged the ligaments in his right ankle was knocked uncon

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