{"id":8366,"date":"2025-10-09T22:46:21","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T22:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/?p=8366"},"modified":"2025-10-09T22:46:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T22:46:21","slug":"work-halted-across-hs2-london-tunnels-after-safety-scare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/work-halted-across-hs2-london-tunnels-after-safety-scare\/","title":{"rendered":"Work halted across HS2 London tunnels after safety scare"},"content":{"rendered":"

All construction work across the London tunnels section of HS2 has been suspended following a site accident.<\/p>\n

The Skanska Costain STRABAG joint venture in charge of the work is undergoing a full safety review following the incident on September 29.<\/p>\n

The Telegraph<\/em> said two workers narrowly escaped being crushed by a steel beam swinging across a tunnel ventilation shaft\u00a0 when a gantry crane was being dismantled at the Green Park Way ventilation shaft in west London.<\/p>\n

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Four tunnel boring machines are currently being dismantled there and removed from the tunnels.<\/p>\n

HS2 Chief Executive Officer Wild told The Telegraph<\/em>: \u201cSafety is our number one priority at HS2. Due to a serious incident, works have been safely halted across the London tunnels section of the route.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile no workers were physically harmed, our contractor, Skanska Costain STRABAG joint venture, is undertaking a comprehensive review of safety procedures and leadership on their sites before a safe restart can take place.\u201d<\/p>\n

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from Construction Enquirer https:\/\/ift.tt\/aT7r1jK<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

All construction work across the London tunnels section of HS2 has been suspended following a site accident. The Skanska Costain STRABAG joint venture in charge of the work is undergoing a full safety review following the incident on September 29. The Telegraph said two workers narrowly escaped being crushed by a steel beam swinging across […]<\/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-8366","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\/8366","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=8366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8367,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8366\/revisions\/8367"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}