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ChrisEng
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Hi
Article I found on a recently completed court case.
£ 8000 is a reasonable amount, but sometimes the fines seem low for the risks and injuries. Not much of a deterent really.
Just goes to show that only 2m can cause serious problems.
Take care out there.
Chris Eng
Worker fell through open scaffold edge
At Newcastle-under-Lyme Magistrates' Court Klarius UK Ltd of Cheadle, Staffs, was fined £8K plus £1,892 in costs over an accident in August 2009 in which a worker fell more than 2 metres from a scaffold tower and fractured a vertebra and crushed another, rendering him immobile for 6 weeks. During machine maintenance he had been stooping to find an oil leak and possibly overbalanced as he stood up.
Investigation established that a guardrail had never been present on one edge of the scaffold as it was felt that it would interfere with access to the machine.
The company pleaded guilty to a breach of Regulation 6(3) of the Work at Height Regulations 2005. 4th August 2010
Article I found on a recently completed court case.
£ 8000 is a reasonable amount, but sometimes the fines seem low for the risks and injuries. Not much of a deterent really.
Just goes to show that only 2m can cause serious problems.
Take care out there.
Chris Eng
Worker fell through open scaffold edge
At Newcastle-under-Lyme Magistrates' Court Klarius UK Ltd of Cheadle, Staffs, was fined £8K plus £1,892 in costs over an accident in August 2009 in which a worker fell more than 2 metres from a scaffold tower and fractured a vertebra and crushed another, rendering him immobile for 6 weeks. During machine maintenance he had been stooping to find an oil leak and possibly overbalanced as he stood up.
Investigation established that a guardrail had never been present on one edge of the scaffold as it was felt that it would interfere with access to the machine.
The company pleaded guilty to a breach of Regulation 6(3) of the Work at Height Regulations 2005. 4th August 2010