Fourteen construction deaths in just six weeks

Fourteen construction workers have been killed in the last six weeks, research by the Centre for Corporate Acountablity (CCA) has confirmed today (Friday).

The unusually high level of deaths is contained in the CCA's 'Work-Related Death Monitoring Project'. The full list is as follows:

- 11 May, Mark Walker, 32, was electrocuted while working for Daubney Services Ltd at Millburn Gate House, Durham;

- 5 May, Keith Jones, 46, died following a fall from height on a site in Leominster, Herefordshire;

- 2 May, Shane Neil was crushed to death by a forklift truck while working for Wellwood Roofing Services at the Building Research Establishment (BRE), Bedford;

- 1 May, Paul Ross, 29, died following a fall at the Channel Tunnel Rail Link (CTRL) job in Grays, Essex;

- 29 April, Jack Towey, 59, run over by a skip lorry at a construction works on the A13, Barking, Essex; George Rogers, 62, was killed when thrown from a dumper truck in Salisbury; Slawmir Kocon was killed when hit by a chimney flue in Northwood, near Hillingdon;

- 26 April, Ronald Wilson, 62, was killed when a crane fell on him near the A50 in Staffordshire;

- 17 April, Andrew Thomas was killed while delivering plasterboard to a site in Caldercott, South Wales;

- 16 April, Brian Gibson, 50, was run over and killed by moving plant while working for MJ Gleeson at Leeds University;

- 11 April, Danny Leighton, 30, died following a scaffold tower collapse at Cossington, Leicestershire;

- 10 April, John Doran, 54, died when he was buried in a trench collapse while working for MJ O'Connor Ltd in Gwent.

- 8 April, Daniel Dennis, 17, fell through a roof light in N Wales;

- 31 March, Michael Davis, 65, died days before retiring when he fell from a roof in Morden, south east London.