Electric shock accident at work sees firms fined £130kRSS Feed
Fines totalling £130,000 have been handed down after a construction employee suffered serious burns from an electric shock.
Mark Rushbrook was constructing two new poultry units at a farm in Bedfordshire when the accident at work occurred in 2009.
He was using a scissor lift when it came into contact with a power cable and he suffered an 11Kv electric shock.
The 24-year-old sustained burns to his hands and stomach, as well as internal muscle damage in the accident at work.
Farm owner C and P Bird Brothers and one of its directors, Peter Bird, were fined a total of £45,000.
Gwent-based Morspan Construction Limited, which designed and manufactured the steel frame, and self-employed steel erector and sub-contractor on the project Michael Skayman of Attleborough, Norfolk, were handed out fines totalling £85,000.
Health and Safety Executive inspector John Berezansky said: "As construction work is a high risk activity with significant numbers of major and fatal injuries, good planning, communication and cooperation are needed constantly.
"Unfortunately, all the defendants in this case failed to achieve this."
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