{"id":524,"date":"2023-12-14T17:47:22","date_gmt":"2023-12-14T17:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community-languages.org.uk\/waltham-forest-trades-council\/?p=524"},"modified":"2023-12-14T17:47:22","modified_gmt":"2023-12-14T17:47:22","slug":"worker-dies-after-roof-of-leytonstone-house-collapses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community-languages.org.uk\/waltham-forest-trades-council\/?p=524","title":{"rendered":"Worker dies after roof of Leytonstone house collapses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, December 12, a construction worker was killed and another person was injured when a roof collapsed on a house conversion in Pevensey Road, Leytonstone.<\/p>\n<p>The death, reported by Waltham Forest Trades Council (WFTC), was described as yet another &#8220;tragedy&#8221; of someone being killed at work.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Parslow, Secretary of the Trades Council, said: &#8220;Sadly the tragedy of someone being killed at work returns to Waltham Forest&#8221;.<br \/>\n&#8220;No one should go to work and never return and no family should ever have to experience this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Heath and Safety Executive (HSE) reported a huge rise in construction worker deaths up to 45 in 2022\/23 from 29 in 2012\/22.<\/p>\n<p>Workers Memorial Day is marked every year to remember those killed in Waltham Forest and around the world.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sadly we now have another person to add to the list of those we remember every April 28,&#8221; Kevin Parslow added.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-525\" src=\"http:\/\/community-languages.org.uk\/waltham-forest-trades-council\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/afl-wmd-2023_wide-700x368.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"368\" srcset=\"https:\/\/community-languages.org.uk\/waltham-forest-trades-council\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/afl-wmd-2023_wide-700x368.jpg 700w, https:\/\/community-languages.org.uk\/waltham-forest-trades-council\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/afl-wmd-2023_wide-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/community-languages.org.uk\/waltham-forest-trades-council\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/afl-wmd-2023_wide-768x403.jpg 768w, https:\/\/community-languages.org.uk\/waltham-forest-trades-council\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/afl-wmd-2023_wide.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, December 12, a construction worker was killed and another person was injured when a roof collapsed on a house conversion in Pevensey Road, Leytonstone. The death, reported by&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaigns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/community-languages.org.uk\/waltham-forest-trades-council\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/community-languages.org.uk\/waltham-forest-trades-council\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/community-languages.org.uk\/waltham-forest-trades-council\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community-languages.org.uk\/waltham-forest-trades-council\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community-languages.org.uk\/waltham-forest-trades-council\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/community-languages.org.uk\/waltham-forest-trades-council\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":526,"href":"https:\/\/community-languages.org.uk\/waltham-forest-trades-council\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524\/revisions\/526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/community-languages.org.uk\/waltham-forest-trades-council\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community-languages.org.uk\/waltham-forest-trades-council\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community-languages.org.uk\/waltham-forest-trades-council\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}