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| 06/08/2012 |
Firm's Fined For Workmen's Four Storey Plunge Down Lift Shaft |
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Three companies were ordered to pay a total of £232,000 in fines and costs after two workers on an Exeter building site suffered severe injuries when the platform they were working on collapsed and fell four storeys down a lift shaft.
Exeter Crown Court heard that the men were working on a site building new student accommodation for Exeter University at the former Elmfield Nursery in New North Road when the incident happened in February 2008.
Cowlin Construction Ltd was fined £85,000 and ordered to pay £20,000 in costs by the court in the case brought by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). Prestoplan Ltd, which provides timber frame buildings, was fined £35,000 and ordered to pay £22,000 towards costs and Somerset Carpenters Ltd, which supplied labour at the site, was fined £50,000 with £20,000 costs.
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A wooden platform was then erected over the shaft but two weeks later this collapsed, sending Ricki Slocombe (35) and Matthew Blackmore (29), both from Bridgwater, falling to the ground floor.
Mr Blackmore suffered a broken back and Mr Slocombe suffered two broken legs and had to use a wheelchair for several months. He has been unable to return to work since then.
Cowlin Construction Ltd of Cater Road, Bishopsworth, Bristol; Prestoplan Ltd, of Turnpike Road, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire and Somerset Carpenters Ltd, of Bath Road Business Park, Bath Road, Bridgwater, Somerset each pleaded guilty to a breach of Section 3(1) of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974.
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