{"id":8616,"date":"2025-10-22T18:46:32","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T18:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/?p=8616"},"modified":"2025-10-22T18:46:32","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T18:46:32","slug":"work-restarts-on-hs2-tunnels-after-safety-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/work-restarts-on-hs2-tunnels-after-safety-shutdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Work restarts on HS2 tunnels after safety shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"

Work has restarted on parts of the London tunnels section of HS2 after operations were suspended following a site accident last month.<\/p>\n

The Skanska Costain STRABAG joint venture in charge of the work launched a full shutdown and safety review following the near miss on September 29.<\/p>\n

Two workers in a cherry picker basket narrowly escaped being struck by a steel beam while a gantry crane was being dismantled at the Green Park Way ventilation shaft in west London.<\/p>\n

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The Enquirer<\/em> understands that during the de-rigging of a gantry crane the beam clamps on the main beam which was being lifted, slid along the beam.<\/p>\n

This caused the beam to rotate which in turned violently impacted the MEWP which had two operatives in the basket.<\/p>\n

The MEWP was seriously damaged and the clipped-on operatives were lucky not to be seriously injured.<\/p>\n

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Work has now restarted on parts of the 14-mile stretch of twin-bore tunnels between Euston and Hillingdon after additional safety measures were put in place.<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for HS2 Ltd said:\u00a0\u201cSafety will always be our top priority which is why all works were halted on the London tunnels section of HS2 following a serious near-miss incident.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have now begun a safe, structured restart across some of these worksites following a comprehensive review of safety procedures and leadership.<\/p>\n

“Additional measures are being implemented by our contractor, Skanska Costain STRABAG joint venture, to ensure the safety of the workforce and we continue to closely monitor performance.\u201d<\/p>\n

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from Construction Enquirer https:\/\/ift.tt\/ZJQuFM8<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Work has restarted on parts of the London tunnels section of HS2 after operations were suspended following a site accident last month. The Skanska Costain STRABAG joint venture in charge of the work launched a full shutdown and safety review following the near miss on September 29. Two workers in a cherry picker basket narrowly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":156,"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-8616","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\/8616","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=8616"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8617,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8616\/revisions\/8617"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}