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| 13/11/2009 |
HSE Warns On Working At Height |
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.gif) The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has delivered a stark warning to companies who fail to protect employees working at height - they will be held to account.
The warning follows a hearing at Nottingham Magistrates' Court when Pontiac Coil Europe Ltd, of Queens Drive Industrial Estate in Nottingham pleaded guilty to/was found guilty of a breach of Regulation 6(3) and 4(1) of the Work at Height Regulations 2005.
The company failed to take sufficient measures to prevent employees falling from a height, after a member of staff fell from a mezzanine floor.
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Mr Cole, who was 62 at the time, was dismantling the mezzanine floor surface at the company's premises on Longwall Avenue, Queens Drive Industrial estate in Nottingham.
The company failed to ensure that the work was properly planned, or to take suitable and sufficient measures to prevent Mr Cole falling.
HSE Inspector Stuart Pilkington said: "Falling from height continues to be one of the most common causes of fatal injury to workers, accounting for 58 fatalities in 2007/08 in Great Britain. On this occasion Mr Cole sustained a fractured skull as well as other injuries, and was lucky to escape death."
(CD/BMcc) |
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