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Corus fined after death of employee - 08-05-2008 |
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has warned companies to put in place proper safety precautions and procedures to ensure the safety at work of their employees. The warning follows the death of a 34 year-old Corus employee who was killed whilst working underneath a crane at the company's Brinsworth site at Rotherham.
A limit switch fitted to the crane was defective, allowing the hoist rope to over-tighten and snap, which caused a 260kg block to fall onto the worker from a height of seven meters. He was pronounced dead at the scene on 2 July 2003.
Corus UK Ltd were fined £170,000 and ordered to pay costs of £30,000 after pleading guilty to a breach of Section2 (1) of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974.
HSE Inspector David Bradley said:
"This was a tragic and entirely avoidable accident. The limit switch fitted to this crane to prevent over hoisting was a safety critical device. It should have been properly maintained in a safe working condition, and regularly tested. The fact that these simple measures were not taken led to this tragic death. "
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