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Retaining wall collapse
A retaining wall is reported to have collapsed four times during the course of its life.
1 April 2007
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 76
Region: CROSS-UK
Serious injury from free standing wall collapse
A 100mm wide brick masonry wall in a garden collapsed seriously injuring one person.
1 January 2008
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 94
Region: CROSS-UK
Collapse of a gable wall
Part of a gable wall to a fairly recently constructed block of flats collapsed onto a parked car which suffered significant damage.
1 April 2008
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 92
Region: CROSS-UK
Advice wanted by amateur builder
This notice, seen by a reporter, was posted on a DIY website, and whilst it may be apocryphal, it illustrates the type of queries received by local authorities and building regulations officers.
1 January 2009
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 125
Region: CROSS-UK
Inadequate chimney support
The supports for a domestic chimney had been removed which left a 2.5m high chimney stack almost unsupported and in a potentially dangerous state.
1 April 2009
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 131
Region: CROSS-UK
Dangerous building work on domestic project
Temporary propping fails during works to a semi-detached property putting the whole building at risk of collapse.
10 March 2022
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 1062
Region: CROSS-UK
Vegetation damage to railway arches
Lack of clarity as to maintenance responsibilities leads to degradation of railway arches.
6 June 2022
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 1064
Region: CROSS-UK
Failure of cantilevered stone staircase
During the renovation and change-of-use conversion of a former minor stately home built around 1830, under pedestrian loading, a ‘cantilevered’ stone staircase partially collapsed without warning.
21 February 2023
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 1147
Region: CROSS-UK
Preventing the collapse of free-standing masonry walls
There have been collapses of free-standing masonry walls over many years and there have been fatalities and numerous injuries; particularly to children.
1 September 2014
CROSS Safety Alert
Region: CROSS-UK, CROSS-AUS, CROSS-US
Concerns over corrosion of dissimilar metals in fixing cavity wall tie systems
A reporter is concerned about corrosion that may occur between dissimilar metals that can be used in cavity wall tie systems. The reporter has noted that stainless steel and carbon steel may be fixed together in wall cavities, which are damp environments, and that corrosion of dissimilar metals in contact may occur.
24 May 2023
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 1186
Region: CROSS-UK