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Essex company fined £5,000 over worker’s fall from height (29 June 2015)

Date: 29/06/2015
Duncan Lewis, Personal Injury Solicitors, Essex company fined £5,000 over worker’s fall from height

An injection moulding company has been successfully prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), after a worker fell from height and suffered serious injuries.

The incident occurred when Lesney Industries Ltd of Norwood House, Temple Bank, Harlow in Essex failed to implement an adequate work-at-height risk assessment and also used an unsafe system of work.

Sekou Camara, 49, was working on top of a moulding machine at the request of his supervisor, in order to clean the hopper, in preparation for a change of material used in the machine when the incident occurred.

Moving from the top of the plastic injection moulding machine, however, Mr Camara stepped onto a set of mobile steps, which then slid away – causing him to fall 1.2m to a concrete floor below.

Mr Camara fractured his elbow, forearm and thumb – and also suffered a compressed fracture to his eye socket.

He spent five weeks in hospital, where his elbow was plated and arm and thumb pinned.

HSE inspectors found that Mr Camara had not received suitable training for working at height and neither was this work appropriately supervised.

Moreover, the mobile steps used to access the moulding machine were not suitable for use in this type of work.

On Monday, 22 June at Chelmsford Magistrates’ Court, Lesney Industries Limited pleaded guilty to breaching Regulation 4(1) of the Work at Height Regulations 2005 and was fined £3,000 with £1,926 in costs.

After the hearing HSE inspector, Glyn Davies, said:

“This incident was entirely foreseeable – though serious, the injuries to this worker could have been very much worse.

“There were no suitable precautions in place at the time of the incident to prevent a fall from the top of the machine or the mobile steps, which were inadequate for providing a safe means of access.

“This prosecution should send a strong message to employers that work at height must be properly planned, appropriately supervised and carried out safely.”

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