Safety Hazards
The following links are an index of safety hazards applicable to the Piling & Foundation Industry.
Please feel free to print off and circulated through out your organisation.
Please click on the appropriate links for further information.
| DRILLING INCIDENTS | |
| - | 1992 Construction Fatal - Driller/Blaster |
| - | Worker dies in lanyard caught in rotating kelly bar |
| OPERATING MACHINERY INCIDENTS | |
| - | Wear seat belts while operating mobile equipment |
| - | 1993 Fatal - Crane Operator |
| - | Runaway truck overturns, killing driver |
| - | Do not remover guards |
| GROUND STABILITY INCIDENTS | |
| - | Skid steer loader tips over |
| - | Blocks alone do not make safe retaining walls |
| - | £30,000 fine following pile rig fall |
| CRANE INCIDENTS | |
| - | Crane load block drops on work platform, killing worker |
| ELECTRICAL INCIDENTS | |
| - | Excavation crew contacts underground power lines |
| - | Residual current device on portable generators - publication |
| MANUAL MAINTENANCE INCIDENTS | |
| - | Never work under unsecured loads |