Fall prosecution

Prosecutions and Claims |
01.03.2006

Meat-packing firm Ken Read & Son has been fined £13,000 after an employee fell from a step ladder at the company's factory in Market Deeping near Peterborough last May, fracturing his collar bone and suffering concussion.

On 8 February before Bourne magistrates, Ken Read & Son pleaded guilty to charges of breaching the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 and Section 2(1) of the Health & Safety at Work Act 1974 for not ensuring the health and safety of its employee Alec Coulson. Jo Anderson, the Health and Safety Executive's principal inspector in Lincolnshire, said the injury "could easily have been a lot worse" and reminded firms to carry out proper risk assessments and devise safe methods for working at height.