{"id":20719,"date":"2023-08-14T15:17:09","date_gmt":"2023-08-14T22:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/worker-killed-at-new-everton-stadium-site\/"},"modified":"2023-08-14T15:17:11","modified_gmt":"2023-08-14T22:17:11","slug":"worker-killed-at-new-everton-stadium-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/worker-killed-at-new-everton-stadium-site\/","title":{"rendered":"Worker killed at new Everton stadium site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/essential.construction\/files\/membership-default-internal\/\" class=\"memberhide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2023\/01\/20220718_175041000_iOS.jpg\" alt=\"-\"><\/a><br\/><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-477854\">\n\t<!-- .entry-header --><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>His colleagues have been told to leave the \u00a3500m Bramley Moore Dock site where work by main contractor O\u2019Rourke has been suspended until further notice.<\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old victim is understood to have suffered severe head injuries and was treated at the scene but declared dead at Aintree\u00a0 Hospital a short time later.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for Laing O\u2019Rourke said: \u201cWe can confirm that earlier today a member of our team, who was carrying out work for one of our subcontractors, was seriously injured in an incident. He was taken to hospital via ambulance, where he sadly died.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are shocked and saddened by today\u2019s tragic incident and our thoughts are with the family and friends of the deceased man and our wider project team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe police and the Health and Safety Executive are on site and we have suspended work until further notice. We will cooperate fully with any investigation that follows.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Everton added: \u201cEveryone at Everton Football Club is heartbroken by the news a male worker has died following an incident at the Everton Stadium site at Bramley-Moore Dock.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe thoughts and condolences of everyone connected with Everton are with his family, friends and colleagues at this unimaginably sad time.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"ui-provider fy b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z ab ac ae af ag ah ai aj ak\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cStadium Contractor Laing O\u2019Rourke will cooperate with Merseyside Police and the Health and Safety Executive in their investigations.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-content --><\/p>\n<footer class=\"entry-meta\">\n<div class=\"author-info\">\n<div class=\"sleeve\">\n<div class=\"author-avatar\">\n<div class=\"sleeve\">\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- .author-info -->\t\t\t<\/footer>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-5143531171910809\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- News - Bottom -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-5143531171910809\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"8320848692\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.constructionenquirer.com\/2023\/08\/14\/worker-killed-at-new-everton-stadium-site\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">This article was originally posted at Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>His colleagues have been told to leave the \u00a3500m Bramley Moore Dock site where work by main contractor O\u2019Rourke has &#8230; <a title=\"Worker killed at new Everton stadium site\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/worker-killed-at-new-everton-stadium-site\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Worker killed at new Everton stadium site\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20584,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1089],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-construction-enquirer","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}