News Developer confirms fatality at 19-storey Atlanta high rise US developer CIM has confirmed that its high rise under construction in Atlanta, Georgia was the scene of a fatality last week, as police released more details of the incident…
News Worker killed building Saudi World Cup stadium It’s been confirmed that on 12 March a worker died on the Besix-Al Bawani joint-venture project to build the Aramco Stadium in Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia, one of the venues…
News Man killed after falling 19 floors A 20-year-old man has died after falling from the 19th floor of a tower reported to be under construction in Atlanta, Georgia. Atlanta police said they responded to a report…
News Three more workers die fixing sewer pipes Three workers in Japan died Friday after losing consciousness while repairing sewer pipes down a manhole in the city of Oga, Akita Prefecture. The incident happened around 9:30am. First, one…
News Three workers drown after inhaling toxic fumes at India sewerage project India’s government has announced it will investigate local media reports that three labourers drowned in Kolkata after inhaling toxic gas. The incident took place on 2 February, when Suman Sardar,…
News Authorities probe insulation after fire kills six on resort project A fire at a Banyan Tree hotel construction site in the South Korean city of Busan today killed six people and injured 25 more, The Straits Times reports. Around 100…
News Strabag in shock at sudden death of CEO at 44 Employees at Austria’s biggest contractor, Strabag, were shocked at the unexpected death of their chief executive, Klemens Haselsteiner, on 17 January, aged 44. The father of three died from an…
News Worker killed by falling 1.2-tonne glass panel An experienced curtain-wall installer in Hong Kong died on 28 December after being struck by a falling 1.2-tonne glass panel at a commercial construction site at West Kowloon high-speed rail…
News Construction deaths in Singapore surge to eight-year high Singapore has warned of a “lack of basic safety measures” after recording 15 construction fatalities in the second half of 2024, a threefold jump from the five recorded in the…
News Massachusetts construction boss sentenced to 18 months for lying about workplace death Mauricio Baiense, the owner and operator of Contract Framing Builders (CFB), a Massachusetts construction company, has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for tax fraud and lying under oath…
News Ex-minister among 12 arrested after Serbian train station collapse A Serbian court on Saturday ordered 10 people, including a former minister, to be detained for up to 30 days over the collapse of a concrete awning at Novi Sad…
News China calls for action on unpaid construction wages amid spate of mass killings In response to an unusual spate of mass killings in China, Beijing has launched a three-month campaign to pressure the country’s indebted local governments to clear the vast backlog of…
News Singapore calls for ‘safety time out’ amid fatalities surge Singapore urged construction firms to take a two-week “safety time out” this month after a surge in workplace fatalities. Ten people died in construction accidents between July and October this…
News Europe funds €900m recovery effort for flood-hit Spain The European Investment Bank (EIB) has announced an initial €900m recovery and reconstruction package for Spain following floods in the provinces of Cuenca and Valencia that led to more than…
News Protests in Serbia after station roof collapse kills 14 A partial roof collapse at a recently renovated train station in the Serbian city of Novi Sad on Friday killed 14 people and seriously injured three. A six-year-old girl was…
News Chinese engineers killed in latest suicide attack in Pakistan Two Chinese engineers were killed and at least 10 people were injured in a suspected suicide attack last night near Jinnah international airport in Karachi, Pakistan. A third body was…
News Worker dies on shuttle refurbishment site at Tampa airport A 29-year-old worker has died on a construction project at Florida’s Tampa International Airport after the machine he was operating fell from the airport’s shuttle track with him inside just…
News 15 dead, many missing after highway bridge collapse in China Rescuers have now found the bodies of 15 people who died when a highway bridge collapsed in flash floods in northwest China’s Shaanxi Province, Xinhua reports. Many are still missing…