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39,000GBP penalty after worker suffers serious head injuries (2 November 2016)
Date: 02/11/2016
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has prosecuted a Buckinghamshire waste equipment maintenance firm, after a worker suffered serious head injuries when a mobile elevating work platform (MEWP) overturned.
Geoffrey Hatton, 49, from County Durham was dismantling a compactor at a site in Wilmslow in Cheshire when the incident occurred on 19 January 2015.
Mr Hatton – who was in the MEWP – and a colleague were taking large pieces of cladding off the frame of a compactor.
A large piece of the cladding came into contact with the MEWP and caused it to fall over. Mr Hatton fractured his skull and two ribs in the incident and spent two months in hospital.
An investigation by the Health and Safety Executive found serious safety failings by Cole Mechanical Services Ltd: the MEWP was being used outside when it was only suitable for internal work, the firm’s employees were not trained in how to use MEWPS, or how to safely erect tower scaffolding – and no risk assessment had been conducted for the work being carried out.
In addition, at the time of the incident, another worker was working on a fragile roof with no protection to prevent falls.
At Minshull Street Crown Court, Cole Mechanical Services Ltd of Ashbridge Road in Chesham, Buckinghamshire pleaded guilty to a breach of Section 2(1) of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974.
The company was fined £30,000 and ordered to pay costs of £8,995.
Duncan Lewis Personal Injury Solicitors – No win no fee Head/Brain Injury Claims
Duncan Lewis personal injury solicitors can advise those who have suffered head or brain injury as a result of negligence on how to make a no win no fee claim for compensation.
Head/brain injury claims have to be made three years after injury or diagnosis of injury – children can claim head/brain injury compensation up to the age of 21.
Duncan Lewis can also advise families whose loved one has sustained traumatic brain injury (TBI) or catastrophic brain injury as a result of negligence and who wish to claim compensation on behalf of their loved one.
For expert legal advice on no win no fee Head/Brain Injury Claims, call Duncan Lewis personal injury solicitors on 0333 772 0409.