Nobody 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 it appears that the bus had rolled backwards down the ramp leading to Terminal 2, demolished a set of traffic lights and a trolley bay,…
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, in Tralee Circuit Criminal Court, Ellickson Engineering Ltd (in receivership) was found guilty of a charge under Section 10 of the Safety, Health and Welfare…
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 four Navy crew when it crashed into a cliff in Temanggung in central Java on Sunday. All eight bodies have been recovered from the crash…
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 was 18 months old, was killed in a farm tragedy at around 3pm on Thursday when he was struck by the vehicle, which was working…
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 a mobile crane in Queen Mothers Square, Poundbury, Dorchester when an attachment holding 500 scaffolding fittings was turned on its side. The fittings, weighing 2kg…
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 been completing roof work for Wessexmoor Ltd at a site on Glycena Road in London when he fell from an unguarded rear roof. He suffered…
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 ferry at 1.30pm on Thursday when he became trapped, it is understood. The victim was taken to the Mater Hospital where he was pronounced dead…
Read articleUK Safety professionals are urging the government to end its obsession with deregulating health and safety in the wake of the Grenfell Tower blaze. More than 70 organisations and figures from the UK’s safety and health profession have jointly called for a political sea change in attitude towards health and safety regulation and fire risk…
Read articleThe English government has directed local authorities and social housing landlords to run tests on any cladding on their tower blocks that has a composite core. Tower block landlords have been told that from today (Tuesday 20th June), where ACM panels have been identified, they must take steps to establish that they are of limited…
Read articleHospitalisation of 11 workers adds to the pressure on the Dublin plant The hospitalisation of 11 workers following a major incident at Dublin’s new waste incinerator at Poolbeg forced the temporary closure of the plant within days of it coming into operation. The incinerator is still only at the commissioning stage, but the timing of…
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