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ChrisEng
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This report is terrible that somebody died, but it could also finish off a lot of smaller and medium sized scaffold firms with the penalties imposed.
Even though this was a while ago it goes to show the fines and costs are getting higher all the time. :worried:
Workman's fatal fall
A 25-year old employee of Regentford Ltd of Hackney fell from a scaffolding structure in February 2005. He had been re-pointing brickwork at a property in Croydon when he fell, sustaining head injuries from which he died some days later.
HSE maintained that the scaffolding was totally inadequate for the job and there was no one in effective control of health and safety on the site.
Regentford was fined £250,000 for breaching S.2(1) of the Health and Safety at Work Act etc. 1974 and must pay costs of £71,603. 9th April 2010.
Even though this was a while ago it goes to show the fines and costs are getting higher all the time. :worried:
Workman's fatal fall
A 25-year old employee of Regentford Ltd of Hackney fell from a scaffolding structure in February 2005. He had been re-pointing brickwork at a property in Croydon when he fell, sustaining head injuries from which he died some days later.
HSE maintained that the scaffolding was totally inadequate for the job and there was no one in effective control of health and safety on the site.
Regentford was fined £250,000 for breaching S.2(1) of the Health and Safety at Work Act etc. 1974 and must pay costs of £71,603. 9th April 2010.