Work at height
5 September 2012 - A Darlington contractor has been fined £12,000 and ordered to pay £3,000 costs after a worker fell 6-7 metres from a house roof. The worker has been left severely brain damaged, in a vegetative state, with no likelihood of improvement.7 September 2012 - A Leicestershire house builder has been fined £6,500 and ordered to pay costs of £1,836 after two self-employed bricklayers fell more than two metres from a scaffold.
13 September 2012 - Bridgend firm has been fined £12,000 and ordered to pay £4,181 in costs after a teenage worker plunged nearly six metres through a fragile roof at a children's activity centre.
17 September 2012 - A Monmouth roof refurbishment company has been fined a total of £10,000 and ordered to pay costs of £4,500 after an employee was injured in a six-metre fall from the roof of a house in Cirencester.
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Assessing all work at height
Roofwork
Fragile surfaces
Tower scaffolds
Underground services
20 September 2012 - A Redhill-based construction company has been ordered to pay £210,000 in fines and costs after an employee died following an explosion on a construction site in central London. The explosion occurred following damage to an 11,000 volt live cable within an excavation.Further information
Electricity - underground cables
Excavations
Asbestos
13 September 2012 - The director of a Bromley firm has been prosecuted by HSE after removing asbestos without a licence and deceiving the householders by providing a doctored air test saying the room was safe to re-enter.The director was given six months' prison sentence on each charge, to run concurrently and suspended for two years; 300 hours' unpaid community service; given an electronic curfew between 9pm and 6am for three months; ordered to pay £11,340 to the affected Residents' Association in Camden and ordered to pay £10,160 costs.
Further information
Asbestos
Asbestos health and safety
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