The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has prosecuted an electrical services company, after three workers were injured during refurbishment work at a building at Prominent Building on Five Ways Island, Hagley Road in central Birmingham.
On 13 February 2015, the three employees working for Cannock Electrical Services Limited of Staffordshire and were fitting a 95mm thick electrical cable from the twentieth floor to the basement of the building.
The workers were lowering the cable by hand when it slipped, whipping round and striking them – one worker suffered a badly broken leg, the second a fractured ankle and the third minor injuries.
An investigation by the Health and Safety Executive into the incident found that there was poor planning and supervision of the task – and the method of working was unsafe.
At Birmingham Magistrates’ Court, Cannock Electrical Services Limited – of Progress Business Centre, Brookfield Drive in Cannock, Staffordshire – was fined a total of £13,000 and ordered to pay costs of £587 and a victim surcharge of £120, after pleading guilty to an offence under Regulation 13(2) of the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2007.
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