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Employer fined after employee injured - 07-07-2008 |
The Health and Safety Executive is warning construction companies to manage the risks faced by their workers and contractors on building sites after a North Wales worker was seriously injured after falling into an unsafe excavation on a site managed by a Staffordshire company.
David Farrow received internal injuries and a broken pelvis in the incident, which occurred on 2nd May 2006 at a site in Rhostyllen, Wrexham, where the company was installing a septic tank system.
HSE inspector Debbie John said:
"Construction has a significant number of risks to health and safety which need to managed properly. There was a systematic failure by Winnington Construction Ltd of Newcastle under Lyme to manage the risk on this site, which resulted in Mr Farrow falling into the excavation and receiving quite serious injuries."
Debbie John continued:
"All employers have a responsibility to ensure that safe working practices are in place, because failure to do so could well cost them dearly in terms of lost working hours, and any resulting enforcement action."
Winnington Construction Ltd was fined £18k and ordered to pay costs of £12k at Mold Crown Court. The company had earlier pleaded guilty to breaching S2 of the Health and Safety at Work Act etc 1974 at Wrexham Magistrates' Court, which referred the case to Mold Crown Court for sentencing.
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