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Domis' Viadux project in Manchester Work has resumed at Domis Construction’s 40-storey Viadux tower in Manchester after a major scare yesterday (4 April) that saw a worker hospitalised. Emergency services rushed to the Deansgate project shortly before 9am in response to an incident that was widely reported to have been an explosion. One worker was

Amey Rail Ltd has been fined £533,000 by industry regulator the Office of Rail and Road after a worker was electrocuted. On Christmas Day 2019, Allister Hunt, a self-employed senior linesman for Amey, touched a live contact wire running 25,000 volts and suffered 55 per cent burns, which required multiple skin grafts. His eyesight and

Image © 2022 Google A man in his early 20s has died on a construction site for a 32,000 square metre logistics centre in the West Midlands. The alarm was raised on Thursday afternoon (23 March), after which two ambulances, a paramedic officer and an air ambulance arrived on the scene at Brooms Road, which

IT worker tells public inquiry that the Post Office Horizon helpdesk was toxic, rudderless and racist By Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA Published: 07 Mar 2023 16:53 The Post Office Horizon helpdesk was a toxic, rudderless and resentful environment, where racism was a daily occurrence and subpostmasters were considered incompetent or corrupt

A company has been fined £12,000 after a worker installing a roof light fractured his back and ribs in a fall. Renka, a Worcestershire-based supplier of windows and doors, was found to have breached workplace-safety regulations following the incident in Cheshire in August 2021. Workers from the company were attempting to install a roof light