{"id":30646,"date":"2025-05-29T06:24:23","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T13:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/worker-injured-during-prep-work-at-persimmon-site\/"},"modified":"2025-05-29T06:24:23","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T13:24:23","slug":"worker-injured-during-prep-work-at-persimmon-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/worker-injured-during-prep-work-at-persimmon-site\/","title":{"rendered":"Worker injured during prep work at Persimmon site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-498243\">\n\t<!-- .entry-header --><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\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<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<\/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<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.constructionenquirer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/userphoto\/3.jpg\" alt=\"Grant Prior\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"photo\">\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- .author-info -->\t\t\t<\/footer>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.constructionenquirer.com\/2025\/05\/29\/worker-injured-during-prep-work-at-persimmon-site\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">This article was originally posted at Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Emergency services were called to Persimmon Homes site at Minster on the Isle of Sheppey. Local paper KentOnline reported &#8230; <a title=\"Worker injured during prep work at Persimmon site\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/worker-injured-during-prep-work-at-persimmon-site\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Worker injured during prep work at Persimmon site\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1089],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","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\/30646","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=30646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}