{"id":5670,"date":"2025-05-29T13:46:27","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T13:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/?p=5670"},"modified":"2025-05-29T13:46:27","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T13:46:27","slug":"worker-injured-during-prep-work-at-persimmon-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/worker-injured-during-prep-work-at-persimmon-site\/","title":{"rendered":"Worker injured during prep work at Persimmon site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An injured civils worker was taken to hospital by air ambulance on Wednesday after an accident on a housing site in Kent.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services were called to Persimmon Homes site at Minster on the Isle of Sheppey.<\/p>\n<p>Local paper KentOnline reported that the injured worker was employed by contractor Houlihan &amp; Co who are carrying out site preparation works to pave the way for 700 new homes.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad-mpu ad-mpu-inline\">\n<div class=\"sleeve\"><a data-ad-id=\"93789\" href=\"http:\/\/www.constructionenquirer.com\/wp-content\/themes\/constructionenquirer\/adclick.php?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.constructionline.co.uk%2Finsights%2Fwhitepapers%2Fprocurement-act-guide%2F%3Futm_source%3Dpr%26utm_medium%3Dconstruction_enquirer%26utm_campaign%3Dprocurement_act%26utm_year%3D2025%26utm_content%3Dprocurement_act_guide\" target=\"_blank\" onclick=\"track_ad_click(this);\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.constructionenquirer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/constructionline gifmaker_me.gif\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>A spokesperson for Houlihan &amp; Co said: \u201cWe can confirm that an accident did occur while we were conducting preparatory drainage works on site today.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of our employees has been taken to the hospital for further medical attention, and our thoughts are with him and his family at this time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are also incredibly grateful for the support of the emergency services who attended.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Construction work at the site started last month.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad-mpu ad-mpu-inline\">\n<div class=\"sleeve\"><a data-ad-id=\"163817\" href=\"http:\/\/www.constructionenquirer.com\/wp-content\/themes\/constructionenquirer\/adclick.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.constructionenquirer.com%2Fdirectory%2F%3Futm_source%3Dconstruction-enquirer%26utm_medium%3Dbanner%26utm_campaign%3Dconstructionenq-ads\" target=\"_blank\" onclick=\"track_ad_click(this);\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.constructionenquirer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/enquirer_directory_mpu.gif\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ad-mpu ad-mpu-inline\">\n<div class=\"sleeve\"><a data-ad-id=\"497899\" href=\"http:\/\/www.constructionenquirer.com\/wp-content\/themes\/constructionenquirer\/adclick.php?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.surveymonkey.com%2Fr%2FH2XG7CF%3Futm_source%3Dconstruction-enquirer%26utm_medium%3Dbanner%26utm_campaign%3Dconstructionenq-ads\" target=\"_blank\" onclick=\"track_ad_click(this);\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.constructionenquirer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Meet_The_Buyer.gif\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>from Construction Enquirer https:\/\/ift.tt\/pyF8dCG<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An injured civils worker was taken to hospital by air ambulance on Wednesday after an accident on a housing site in Kent. Emergency services were called to Persimmon Homes site at Minster on the Isle of Sheppey. Local paper KentOnline reported that the injured worker was employed by contractor Houlihan &amp; Co who are carrying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":148,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-5670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-construction-enquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5670"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5671,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5670\/revisions\/5671"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}