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£42,000 penalty after engineering worker suffers life changing injury after being struck on head (6 February 2017)

Date: 06/02/2017
Duncan Lewis, Personal Injury Solicitors, £42,000 penalty after engineering worker suffers life changing injury after being struck on head

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has prosecuted an engineering firm for safety breaches, after a worker suffered life changing injuries.

Gateshead Magistrates’ Court heard that, on 24 February 2015, Kevin Tait was using equipment to lift an 18-tonne steel roll at the company’s premises at Carlington Court, Factory Road in Blaydon-on-Tyne.

The equipment being used was not suitable for the lifting operation because the load being lifted exceeded the equipment’s safe working load. During the lift, part of one of the shortening clutches sheared, causing the load to swing and strike Mr Tait on the head.

The Health and Safety Executive told the court the lifting operation had not been suitably planned – and the equipment in use was poorly maintained.

H E Realisations Ltd – now in liquidation and formerly Hogg Engineering Ltd, of Moorland House, Snelisins Road in Cleckheaton – pleaded guilty to breaching Section 2(1) of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and Regulation 8(1) of the Lifting Operation and Lifting Equipment Regulations 1998.

H E Realisations Ltd was fined £40,000 and ordered to pay £2,230 costs.

After the hearing, HSE inspector Laura Catterall said:

“Lifting operations are hazardous and require a competent person to properly plan and supervise them to ensure that suitable and properly maintained equipment is used in the right configuration to avoid exceeding safe working loads.

“Kevin is incredibly lucky that he was not killed in this incident – and he has suffered permanent life changing injuries as a result. This workplace accident has changed the lives of Kevin and his family irrevocably.”


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