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Concrete manufacturer prosecuted after worker is injured (29 December 2015)

Date: 29/12/2015
Duncan Lewis, Legal News Solicitors, Concrete manufacturer prosecuted after worker is injured

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has prosecuted a company manufacturing pre-cast concrete panels, after a worker was injured while loading freestanding concrete units onto a vehicle.

On 8 August 2014, a contractor working for Unbrako Precast Concrete Limited was loading freestanding concrete units onto his vehicle using a sideloader.

The unnamed worker was unscrewing a lifting shackle from the top of the concrete units, when an attachment slid off the forks of the sideloader. The attachment struck him, knocking him off the vehicle.

The contractor suffered a broken collarbone, fractures to both shoulders and two broken ribs.

An investigation by the Health and Safety Executive into the incident found that there was an inadequate risk assessment and an inadequate safe system of work.

On 23 December 2015 at Nottingham Magistrates’ Court, Unbrako Precast Concrete Limited of Southfields Business Park, Harby Road in Langar was fined a total of £26,000 with costs of £2,579, after pleading guilty to offences under Section 3(1) of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974, and Regulation 3 of the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999.

Speaking after the hearing, HSE inspector Lindsay Bentley said:

“This incident was entirely avoidable had the risks been adequately assessed.

“The injured person should not have been near the moving sideloader or on the back of the trailer.”

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