Government responds to report into construction site accidents
The government has announced its response to Rita Donaghy’s 2009 report into deaths and injuries in the UK construction industry.  The Donaghy report, titled ‘One Death is too Many – Inquiring into the Underlying Causes of Construction Fatal Accidents’, was commissioned in 2008 to look at the underlying causes of fatal accidents in construction over the last quarter of a century.  23… read more

Explosion at construction site leads to new advice from HSE
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has issued new guidance for the construction industry relating to the use of a type of concrete, after an explosion injured two workers on a construction site in August last year.

The accident occurred when some concrete that had been poured on a construction site was setting.  Two contractors on the site started… read more

Two construction firms have been fined for their roles in a scaffolding collapse which led to the death of a worker
The firms, McAleer & Rushe, based in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland and Les Smith Carpentry, based in Romsey in Hampshire both admitted to breaching health and safety regulations.  The incident happened in 2006 at the site of a Jurys Inn hotel that was under construction at the time; 100ft… read more

Making a claim for compensation after electrocution
Being electrocuted can be a terrifying and painful experience, and it is certainly not something you would want to happen to you.  But what if you were electrocuted through no fault of your own?  Here at Camps Solicitors we can help people who have been electrocuted through the negligence of another person, or as a result of poor safety procedures at work or… read more