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06 April 2010 - Footage filmed for a TV documentary about medics has been used to help secure a conviction against a company carrying out construction work after the death of a 25-year-old.
Mason and plasterer Mr Balwinder Kumar, from Forest Gate, was re-pointing brickwork when he fell from scaffolding at the rear of a building in High Street, South Norwood, Croydon. He suffered severe head injuries in the first storey fall, and was taken to hospital where later he died.
When HSE went to investigate, the scaffolding Mr Kumar had been standing on had been removed. During the investigation it emerged that a BBC television crew filming the documentary 'Trauma', had been accompanying the medical staff who attended the site, and HSE obtained footage showing scaffolding in very poor condition with insufficient guard rails and an inadequate working platform.
Regentford Ltd, of Hackney was fined £250,000 after being convicted of breaching Section 2(1) of the Health and Safety at Work Act etc. 1974. They were also ordered to pay costs of £71,603.01.
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http://www.hse.gov.uk/press/2010/coi-ldn-1305.htm?ebul=cons/apr10&cr=10
http://www.hse.gov.uk/press/2010/coi-ldn-1305.htm?ebul=cons/apr10&cr=10
Mason and plasterer Mr Balwinder Kumar, from Forest Gate, was re-pointing brickwork when he fell from scaffolding at the rear of a building in High Street, South Norwood, Croydon. He suffered severe head injuries in the first storey fall, and was taken to hospital where later he died.
When HSE went to investigate, the scaffolding Mr Kumar had been standing on had been removed. During the investigation it emerged that a BBC television crew filming the documentary 'Trauma', had been accompanying the medical staff who attended the site, and HSE obtained footage showing scaffolding in very poor condition with insufficient guard rails and an inadequate working platform.
Regentford Ltd, of Hackney was fined £250,000 after being convicted of breaching Section 2(1) of the Health and Safety at Work Act etc. 1974. They were also ordered to pay costs of £71,603.01.
Click on link for picture, and to find out how to subsribe to "HSE Info Link"
http://www.hse.gov.uk/press/2010/coi-ldn-1305.htm?ebul=cons/apr10&cr=10
http://www.hse.gov.uk/press/2010/coi-ldn-1305.htm?ebul=cons/apr10&cr=10
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