Keywords: Fatal fall, maintenance work, sewer, access ladder, contractor, risk assessment, harness,
Contractors fined £300,000 for fatal fall
Prosecutions and Claims |
01.12.2006
Two firms carrying out maintenance work on an Oldham sewer have each been fined £150,000 for failing to protect a worker who fell five metres to his death only seconds after detaching his fall-arrest harness.
Future Environmental Services (FES) and Bethell Construction were criticise ...
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