RECENT ENFORCEMENT ACTIVITY
CRS
presents details of a sample of this month’s HSE prosecutions and
enforcement action in the construction sector. For more information on
how to obtain professional construction advice, see http://www.crsrisk.com/construction_cdm
Scaffold Collapses
11 April 2012 – Seven
construction workers were lucky to survive when more than 250 tonnes of
wet concrete collapsed at Liverpool John Moores University. Two companies have been fined a total of £100,000 and over £70,000 in costs for putting workers’ lives at risk.
11 April 2012 - A
former scaffolding company director has been fined £3,000 and ordered
to pay costs of £2,000 after two employees were injured in a scaffold
collapse.
A 26-year-old man working fractured his left ankle and right heel as he
jumped six metres from a scaffold tower at student accommodation as it
fell to the ground. A second employee, 46, was working at a height of
around 10 metres. He managed to hang on to the scaffold as it fell,
crashing into the building opposite.
Protecting the public
2 April 2012 - A
Sheffield man is lucky to be alive after suffering multiple injuries
when he fell three metres from the top of a new staircase that had been
left without a handrail by a local builder during refurbishment work at his home. The builder was fined £5,000 with costs of £4,000.
19 April 2012 - A Hertfordshire building company has been fined £20,000 and ordered to pay costs of £21,000 for injuring a member of the public.
The woman was waiting for a bus when she was hit by a piece of
machinery being lifted to the fifth floor of a nearby office block.
27 April 2012 - A family was exposed to deadly carbon monoxide fumes after building work on a chimney caused a blockage in a flue. The builder was fined £2,000 and ordered to pay £1,500 in costs.
Asbestos
4 April 2012 - A
laboratory testing firm has been fined £36,000 and ordered to pay
£8,000 in costs after putting workers at its Tyneside premises at risk
of exposure to asbestos.
Work at height
3 April 2012 - The director of a Cardiff construction firm has been fined £4,000 and ordered to pay costs of £3,027 for failing to take measures to ensure his workers’ safety while working at height.
4 April 2012 – A
building firm from Stratford-upon-Avon has been fined £12,000 after a
worker suffered severe injuries when he fell from a damaged scaffolding
plank. The firm was also ordered to pay £3,353 costs.
11 April 2012 – A construction worker defied death after falling four
metres from the cage of a 20-tonnes cherry-picker into the path of a
moving bus, which then pushed him another 15 metres along the Euston
Road, London. National construction firm fined a total of £12,000 and ordered to pay full costs of £16,459.70
26 April 2012 – A construction company has been fined £20,000 and was ordered to pay £5,940 in costs for continuing unsafe working practices
at a site in Upper Norwood, Croydon. They had repeatedly ignoring
safety warnings about dangerous scaffolding, people working unsafely at
height, fire-related hazards and dangerous electrical equipment.
26 April 2012 - A
church council in South Kensington has been fined £5,000 and ordered to
pay full costs of £4,457.60 for safety failings after a self-employed
joiner was left paralysed when he fell from the balcony of St Paul's
church in Onslow Square.
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