Christopher Kaye from Barnsley, South Yorkshire has been awarded more than £4m for injuries he sustained on a construction site in October 2008. Kaye suffered catastrophic head injuries after changing a grapple attachment on a digger, an injury which his defence put down to a lack of training and no written instructions.

A Connecticut ironmonger who was injured while working for a railway company has been awarded in excess of $140,000 for a knee injury he sustained while working on the Metro-North Railroad. Bill Ordner, from New Haven, Connecticut, was awarded the settlement having been forced to turn down a promotion because of his injury. Metro-North Railroad denied liability for the injury, claiming that the injury was not work related. Bill was awarded a further $2,000 to cover the cost of his medical bill.

The Health and Safety Authority has said that it will focus on vehicle safety this Construction Safety Week, an area which the authority presumably believes needs to be improved upon.