{"id":35114,"date":"2026-04-20T17:49:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T00:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/teenage-builder-dies-after-concrete-pipe-accident\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T17:49:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T00:49:22","slug":"teenage-builder-dies-after-concrete-pipe-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/teenage-builder-dies-after-concrete-pipe-accident\/","title":{"rendered":"Teenage builder dies after concrete pipe accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>Police have confirmed a 17-year-old has died after a concrete pipe fell on him while he was working at a building site.<\/p>\n<p>Shay Bladen was seriously injured at the 368-homes Sniperley Park DH1 homes development last Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>He was taken to the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle where Durham Constabulary has now confirmed he died on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe love you and seeing how highly everyone speaks about you just shows the type of person you were.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur handsome brown-eyed boy \u2013 forever 17.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Det Ch Insp Andy Crowe said: \u201cThis has been a truly tragic incident and I would like to offer Shay\u2019s family and friends the sincere condolences of everyone at Durham Constabulary.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are carrying out a joint investigation with our colleagues at the Health and Safety Executive to determine the exact circumstances as to how this tragedy unfolded.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.constructionenquirer.com\/2026\/04\/20\/teenage-builder-dies-after-concrete-pipe-accident\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">This article was originally posted at Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Police have confirmed a 17-year-old has died after a concrete pipe fell on him while he was working at &#8230; <a title=\"Teenage builder dies after concrete pipe accident\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/teenage-builder-dies-after-concrete-pipe-accident\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Teenage builder dies after concrete pipe accident\">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-35114","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\/35114","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=35114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}