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Three companies prosecuted after construction worker is injured in fall from height (26 January 2016)
Date: 26/01/2016
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has prosecuted three companies after a construction worker was injured after falling from height.
On 4 March 2013, two workers accessed the top level of a unit to be dismantled as part of construction work at a site in Westferry Road in London.
However, one of the workers slipped and fell over the side of the platform, hitting the wall and then landing on the concrete floor 5.9 metres below.
He sustained multiple injuries, including internal bleeding, a collapsed lung, and fractures to his pelvis and right arm. The worker has not been able to return to work following the incident.
At Southwark Crown Court, the principal contractor Meta Management Services Limited – trading as Aktrion – of Rutland Court in Edinburgh pleaded guilty to a breach of Regulation 22(1)(c) of the Construction, Design and Management Regulations 2007. The company was fined £9,000 with £1,942 in costs.
Goss Graphic Systems Limited of Beech House, The Oaks Business Park, Longridge Road in Preston also pleaded guilty to a breach of Regulation 13(2) of the Construction, Design and Management Regulations 2007 and Regulation 4 of the Working at Height Regulation 2005. The company was fined a total of £27,000 with costs of £7,000.
Beck and Pollitzer Engineering Limited of Burnham Road, Dartford in Kent pleaded guilty to a breach of Regulation 4 of the Working at Height Regulation 2005. The company was fined £54,000 with costs of £14,000.
Duncan Lewis Personal Injury Solicitors – No win no fee Construction Worker Claims
Duncan Lewis personal injury solicitors can advise construction workers who have been injured at work as a result of negligence on how to make a no win no fee claim for compensation, including claims relating to:
• Amputation
• Burns
• Crush injuries
• Electrocution
• Falls from height
• Fractures
• Head and spinal injuries
• Industrial deafness
• Sight impairment
• Vibration white finger.
Personal injury claims have to be made within three years of injury or diagnosis of injury.
Duncan Lewis can also advise bereaved families whose loved one has lost their life in a construction accident caused by negligence on how to make a no win no fee Fatal Injuries Claim.
For expert legal advice on no win no fee Construction Worker Claims, call Duncan Lewis personal injury solicitors on 0333 772 0409.