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Huge fine after roadworker death04/08/2011 Birse and Serco have been fined a total of £300,000 after a roadworker died from a 12m fall while working over the M5 motorway, near Clevedon. |
Maintenance worker drops streetlight on toddler22/09/2011 A Volker Highways maintenance worker has been fined after a toddler was injured by part of a falling streetlight in Hackney. |
Sign maker hit with safety fine27/10/2011 A South Tyneside highways sign specialist has been prosecuted for putting workers’ health at risk by exposing them to known hazardous fumes. |
Dumper truck runs over road worker's foot15/05/2012 A Northamptonshire contractor has been fined after a six-tonne dumper truck ran over a worker’s foot. |
Council fined after street light shock17/12/2012 A local authority has been fined after a worker suffered burns to his wrist, leg and groin and singed his facial hair while removing a lamp post in Radcliffe last summer. |
Contractor prosecuted after road worker loses leg30/05/2013 A Staffordshire contractor has been fined after a road worker had to have his lower leg amputated after slipping into an unguarded slurry mixer. |
Motorcyclist paralysed after collision with misplaced traffic signs11/11/2013 Wolverhampton-based road maintenance firm Carillion AM Government has been fined £180,000 after a motorcyclist was left paralysed following a collision with traffic signs. |
Worker paralysed in gritter fall10/06/2014 A Glasgow company has been fined after a worker was left paralysed from the neck down when he fell around three metres from the top of a gritter. |
M25 worker crushed to death by reversing bulldozer14/07/2014 Slough-based J McArdle Contracts Ltd and a bulldozer operator have been fined after a worker was run over and killed while working on the M25 widening project. |
HSE backs guidance designed to keep road workers safe13/08/2014 Guidance aimed at keeping road workers safe has received the backing of the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). |
Road worker injured after being struck by car25/09/2014 Manchester City Council has been fined £15,000 after a road worker was struck by a car whilst litter picking on a city road. |
Road marking lorry explodes on resurfacing job10/10/2014 A roadworker suffered burns when a vehicle carrying gas-heated cauldrons exploded in Bristol. |
Utility company fined for worker death09/12/2014 Thames Water has been fined £300,000 after employee Raymond Holmes was killed by a reversing excavator at a treatment works in Walthamstow. |
Utilities worker crushed by telehandler15/12/2014 Civils contractor Complete Utilities Ltd has been prosecuted after an employee was crushed to death at work. |
Crown Censure issued to Highways Agency after traffic officer’s death12/01/2015 The Highways Agency has been issued with a Crown Censure – the equivalent of a criminal prosecution – for safety failings after an experienced traffic officer was struck and killed by a car that went out of control on the M25. |
Firms sentenced after road worker loses arm26/03/2015 Three road construction firms have been ordered to pay more than £400,000 after a road worker lost his arm during a surfacing job in Hertfordshire. |
Huge fine for council after car park barrier tragedy14/09/2015 North Lincolnshire Council has been fined £160,000 after a man died when his car drove into a horizontal swing barrier gate to a car park at a sports ground. |
Firm fined after road worker hit by bus06/01/2016 A company contracted to lay a pipe under a road surface has been fined after a court heard it failed to keep and maintain a safe place of work, resulting in injury to an operative who was hit by a bus. |
£1m fine for Balfour Beatty after road worker killed27/01/2016 Balfour Beatty has been fined £1 million after a road worker was killed whilst repairing a central reservation barrier that had been damaged in a road traffic collision. |
Road worker death prompts HSE warning to HGV drivers27/05/2016 The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has warned HGV drivers to follow basic safety procedures when coupling and uncoupling vehicles, following the death of a road worker in January 2015. |
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