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Holystone, North Tyneside · South Tyneside Magistrates Court
On 10 December 2024 a 23-year-old employee was working on a section of acoustic fencing, four metres tall and 265 metres long, at a site in North Tyneside between the A19, near Holystone, and a housing estate. During a lifting operation the slings of an excavator became tangled in the ladder he was using and it tipped. He fell approximately two metres to the ground. HSE found the company had failed to properly plan the lifting operation and the work at height activities.
Injuries: The employee suffered spinal fractures.
Section 2(1) of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974
“This particular incident was wholly avoidable.”
Plan lifting operations and work at height together, and use remote release clamps and tag-lines so nobody has to climb a ladder to free or guide a load.
The machines, packs and quizzes that fit this kind of site.