Avant Properties (Scotland) Ltd has been fined £333,000 after a person was crushed by falling concrete blocks on a website in South Lanarkshire.
Conor Joseph Morgan was an HGV driver delivering supplies to Shott Farm in Excessive Blantyre, a website overseen by Avant Properties (Scotland) Ltd, when the incident occurred in April 2017.
The 45-year-old was crushed because the concrete blocks have been being unloaded from a trailer utilizing an excavator with a pallet kind attachment, based on the Well being and Security Government (HSE).
In a press release, the regulator defined: “The size of the pallet forks fitted to the excavator exceeded the width of the pallet being unloaded.
“Because the pallet was being lifted the forks caught a second pallet of concrete blocks inflicting them to topple from the sting of the trailer and onto Mr Morgan.”
The HSE stated that as principal contractor for the positioning, Avant Properties (Scotland) Ltd “ought to have ensured there was a protected system of labor for the unloading of the supply automobile”.
It additionally discovered that Morgan’s employer, Regen Waste Ltd, “had not carried out an appropriate and ample evaluation of danger for the drivers delivering to distant websites not underneath its management”.
Avant Properties (Scotland) Ltd pleaded responsible to a breach of Part 3(1) of the Well being and Security at Work and so forth. Act 1974 and was fined £333,000.
Regen Waste Ltd of Newry, County Down pleaded responsible to breaching Regulation 3(1)a of the Administration of Well being and Security at Work Laws 1999 and was fined £23,000.
HSE principal inspector Graeme McMinn stated: “This was a tragic and wholly avoidable incident, brought on by a failure of the principal contractor to implement a protected system of labor.
“The employer additionally failed to hold out an appropriate and ample evaluation of danger.
“Firms must be conscious that HSE won’t hesitate to take acceptable enforcement motion towards those who fall beneath the required requirements.”
HSE steering on the protected loading and unloading of autos at will be considered here.
