In June last year an art deco cinema turned bingo hall collapsed on to a busy dual carriageway in Lancashire.
The building in Thornton Cleveleys broke through the scaffolding around it and spread rubble across two lanes of the A587. To make matters worse this happened during rush hour.
The HSE investigation found a number of failings on the part of demolition company Gaskells Demolition Services.
The scaffolding was not meant to hold the structure, only to allow access to it. Even so, there were not sufficient exclusion zones around the building, and road closures had not been requested through the local council. In fact, the company was lucky no one was injured or killed, although one pedestrian suffered a near miss.
Gaskells has admitted its guilt for the lack of safety and will pay fines totalling £8,000.
Source: Construction Enquirer
May 12, 2011
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