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Two dock workers were left with injuries after an accident at work involving a high voltage electric shock.
Both men were burned and one was temporarily blinded after they climbed up a dockside crane to check the electricity supply and received a 6,600 vault electric shock.
Carrylift Materials Handling Ltd was fined £15,000 and ordered to pay £14,568 in costs after the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) found employees believed the current was just 415 volts strong.
None of the men had undergone satisfactory training or been given sufficient information about electricity supply to the dockside cranes, it was found.
"They should never have been allowed to work on the crane without being given proper information and training by their employer, and without confirmation that the power supply had first been cut," said HSE inspector Dave Guyers.
Meanwhile, two Sheffield firms were fined after a worker fell through a roof at Sheffield College.
Both Lilquest Asbestos Management and JF Finnegan Ltd were prosecuted after 40-year-old Mr Nikitas Coulson experienced the accident at work.
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