February 2012 Accidents at Work

Liverpool businessman fined £112k over roof fall death

A Liverpool businessman has been fined £112,000 after a labourer died following a fall from the roof of an industrial unit, just months after another worker was injured in a fall at the same site.

John McCleary fell 15 feet while fitting roof panels at a construction He lost his balance while on a narrow beam he was using as no scaffolding had been erected.

Mr Mann He was fined £112,000 and ordered to pay £19,331 in prosecution costs.

Construction firm fined over worker's injuries

An engineering contractor has been fined after a worker suffered severe injuries when his excavator struck a bridge on the M1 motorway in the East Midlands.

A maintenance fitter employed by Nottinghamshire firm Van Elle Ltd was driving a wheeled excavator during widening work on the motorway between Junctions 25 and 28 when its boom hit a bridge. The worker was not wearing his seatbelt and was thrown over the steering column and through the open front screen, hitting his head on the front excavator blade. He suffered severe head injuries and was in a coma for two weeks. Rehabilitation lasted a further five months and he has since returned to the company though he has been left with reduced function in his left arm and leg for which he receives ongoing physiotherapy.

A Health and Safety Executive investigation into the incident found the driver had not received adequate training in use of the excavator.

Van Elle Ltd pleaded guilty to breaching Regulation 9(1) of the Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998. The firm was today fined £12,750 and ordered to pay costs of £29,660.

Source www.hse.gov.uk

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