{"id":9223,"date":"2019-08-06T15:50:13","date_gmt":"2019-08-06T15:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mbosafetyservices.co.uk\/staging\/?p=9223"},"modified":"2019-08-06T15:50:13","modified_gmt":"2019-08-06T15:50:13","slug":"west-midlands-companies-sentenced-after-worker-suffers-life-changing-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mbosafetyservices.co.uk\/staging\/west-midlands-companies-sentenced-after-worker-suffers-life-changing-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"West Midlands companies sentenced after worker suffers life-changing injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><p style=\"background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 7.5pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">Two companies have today been fined after a contractor suffered permanent damage to his eyesight following a fall.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0cm 0cm 7.5pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">The Magistrates Court heard how, on 12 April 2016, a contractor, who worked for an engineering company, had been hired to repair a section of pipework on the roof of a warehouse owned by a carbon processing company when he slipped and fell, banging his head. The worker has suffered permanent blindness to one eye and blurred vision in the other resulting from his head injury.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0cm 0cm 7.5pt 0cm;\"><strong style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">An investigation by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) found multiple failings in relation to how the work, specifically access to the roof, was planned, managed and monitored. In particular neither company had undertaken a suitable and sufficient risk assessment, nor had they agreed a safe system of work for the repair of the pipework which required access to the roof.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0cm 0cm 7.5pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">The engineering company pleaded guilty to breaching Section 2(1) of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and has been fined \u00a318,000 and ordered to pay costs of \u00a39,000.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0cm 0cm 7.5pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">The carbon processing company also pleaded guilty to breaching Section 3(1) of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and has been fined \u00a3100,000 and ordered to pay costs of \u00a320,000.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0cm 0cm 7.5pt 0cm;\"><strong style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">Speaking after the case, the HSE inspector commented:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0cm 0cm 7.5pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">\u201cThis incident highlights the need for contractors to be managed properly. Both the contractors and those engaging them must assess the risks of the site and the specific work to ensure it can be done safely. In this case, no risk assessment was carried out and arrangements made to access the roof put workers at significant risk of falling from height leading to this worker suffering a life-changing injury.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two companies have today been fined after a contractor suffered permanent damage to his eyesight following a fall. 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