Agustin Escobar, Global CEO of Rail Infrastructure at Siemens Mobility, died with his family yesterday in New York City when a sight-seeing helicopter they were in fell into the Hudson…

Two former Major League Baseball players and a provincial governor are among the rising toll of dead following the collapse of a nightclub roof in the Caribbean nation of the…

Thai prime minister Ms Paetongtarn Shinawatra yesterday announced a thorough investigation into the approval, design, and materials involved in a 32-storey, under-construction office tower in Bangkok that disintegrated in Friday’s…

Three construction workers are dead and dozens are missing in the rubble of a collapsed high-rise building under construction in Bangkok. The disaster occurred around 1.40pm local time and followed…

A three-day rescue effort in the north Indian state of Uttarakhand has saved 46 construction workers who were stranded by a Himalayan avalanche. Eight workers were killed in the disaster,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…