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A carpentry contractor has been fined £8,000 after a 22-year-old man died following an accident at a building site. Niall McCormack, from Kettering, Northamptonshire, was working for KM Carpentry Contractors Limited on 30 October 2019 when he was struck by construction equipment. McCormack was installing roof trusses at a new-build site at Alconbury Weald, Cambridgeshire….

Amit Oberoi, CCS’s executive chairman, said: “Winning a CCS National Site Award is the mark of the highest levels of performance in the three areas of our Code of Considerate Practice: Respect the Community, Care for the Environment, Value the Workforce. Source link

A company director has been fined after workers were exposed to asbestos during the demolition of a hotel in Cornwall. Paul Stephens, director of the now liquidated Stephens and Stephens Developers Limited, was fined almost £66,000 as a result of failures at the former Cliffdene Hotel in Newquay in 2020. The hotel closed in 2018…