A construction company has been fined after a worker was injured
by sound bloc boards (similar to plaster board) weighing a total of 544
kilograms that fell from a crane.
Balfour Beatty Regional Construction Limited was the principal
contractor in a construction project to build three blocks of flats in
Branksome, Poole, Dorset.
Bournemouth Magistrates’ Court heard how on 6 May 2014, a load
of 15 sound bloc boards were being lifted by a crane from the fourth floor at
the rear of the building under construction to the second lift loading bay at
the front of the building.
As the load descended into the loading bay it snagged on a
scaffolding standard which caused the load to fall out of the two retaining
slings. A worker was struck by a number of the boards as he stood on the
loading bay. He was knocked unconscious and suffered a broken leg and fractured
ribs.
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