News archive - November 06

• Man fighting for life after warehouse fall - 28 November 2006
  A MAN was today in a serious condition in hospital after plunging 30ft from a warehouse roof.
• Hertfordshire man prosecuted following the death of a construction worker - 28 November 2007
  The HSE is warning of the dangers of working at height following the death of a man who fell while replacing windows.
• Horror as man falls into acid - 28 November 2006
  A worker was rushed to hospital after falling 20ft into hydrochloric acid at a Black Country factory.
• Free Health and safety advice on offer for farmers and crofters in Scotland - 27 November 2006
  Help and advice related to specific accident and ill health demonstrations will be provided by instructors with extensive industry experience, many of whom are farmers, demonstrations including safe use of quad bikes tractor / machinery and child safety; tractor and trailer maintenance; agricultural dusts / preventing asthma; care and maintenance of power take-off shafts; and manual handling and self assessment of risks, particularly work at height.
• Workman hurt as stairs collapse - 26 November 2006
  A 31-year-old man was treated in hospital after he fell through a set of stone steps which collapsed and landed on top of him.
• Drivers escape scaffolding collapse drama - 23 November 2006
  Police have admitted it was "amazing" no one was killed as scaffolding crashed across a pavement and busy road on Thursday morning.
• Moving goods safely - raising employee awareness - 20 November
  'Moving goods safely' is a pilot project that has been run jointly by the London Boroughs and the HSE over the last year, and incorporates the national health and safety priority topics of working at height, workplace transport safety, musculoskeletal disorders and slips and trips.
• HSE urges house builders to do better - 10 November 2006
  Over 150 people from housebuilding companies across the north east attended the HSE's Housebuilder Safety and Health Awareness Day (SHAD). Held at Durham County Cricket Club's Riverside Ground, the event highlighted the main health and safety issues common to housebuilding sites in the region and demonstrated how things could be done better. Working safely with scaffolds, ladder and platforms was discussed.
• Hull builders under the microscope - 09 November 2006
  Construction inspectors from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) together with Environmental Health Officers from Hull City Council stopped work on a number of construction sites in the Hull area this week because safety standards on sites were not being met. Inadequate scaffolding and poorly planned work at height continue to cause concern.
• Fall from roof costs firm £25,000 - 08 November 2006
  Companies are today reminded of the dangers of working at height following a prosecution brought by the Health and Safety Executive against a West Wales business.
• Saving lives of forestry workers - 07 November 2006
  Health and Safety Executive Wales is running a free safety and health awareness day for the forestry industry in the Clocaenog Forest today in an effort to tackle the high rate of fatal and major accidents in the industry. Safe work at height will be one of the main topics discussed.
• Event to cut forestry accidents - 01 November 2006
  A safety health awareness day is being held in Northumberland to tackle the high rate of fatalities in the forestry industry. Safe work at height will be one of the main topics discussed.
• Firm guilty after man fell - 06 November 2006
  A construction firm pleaded guilty to breaching the Health and Safety at Work Act after Richard Green, aged 17, fell off the open end of a platform.
• Factory Death - 03 November 2006
  A factory worker has died after falling into a machine. Flags were flown at half mast today at the factory in Birtley, Gateshead, following the tragic accident.
• Paul took a nasty fall - 4 November 2006
  A MAN who plunged 13ft from the top of a waste recycling lorry is back on his feet - and in business - only eight months after his accident.
• Company fined £5,000 after welder fabricator breaks neck in fall - 2 November 2006
  Maintenance firm McFarlane Telfer was fined £5,000 and ordered to pay £5,556 costs in a prosecution by the Health and Safety Executive after a welder fabricator fell 3.2 metres into a light well and broke his neck.
• Construction firms warned to take care when working at height after young worker’s fall - 2 November 2006
  The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has warned construction firms of the dangers of working even at relatively low heights after a young worker suffered multiple fractures when he fell from the open edge of a first floor working platform.
• Crane worker falls to death - 1 November 2006
  A worker was killed after a double-decker bus knocked him off a cherry-picker crane and then ran over him.

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