Alchemist DB Limited fined £20,000 after a labourer drowned in a flooded excavation

Training and H&S evidence for construction sites

Excavations and buried services

Could you show a site manager today, in writing, that each operator is authorised to use your machines?

BHG (Stone) Limited fined £18,000 after a labourer fell through an unprotected stairwell opening

£18,000 + £5,386 costs · 2026-04-01

A labourer fell through an unprotected stairwell opening while fitting wall insulation, fracturing a skull and back.

Appledorn Developments Limited and T Vaughan Limited fined £1,150,000 after a worker was buried and killed in an unsupported trench collapse

£1,150,000 + £40,000 costs · 2026-09-09

An unsupported trench collapsed and buried a worker under two tonnes of soil, causing fatal injuries.

A self-employed telehandler operator in Ince, Ellesmere Port fined £800 after a lift supervisor was fatally struck by a reversing telehandler

£800 + £2,000 costs · 2026-08-11

A telehandler operator reversed over a lift supervisor walking back from the site welfare compound, causing fatal injuries.