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City of London, Greater London · Westminster Magistrates' Court
Temporary wooden platforms collapsed during a refurbishment project at a site in the City of London, depositing concrete debris on a drilling operative working beneath. Roots Contractors Limited was fined for its breach of construction design and management regulations; a second firm, Diacutt Limited, was fined separately in the same case.
Injuries: Fractured neck and back, and a brain bleed; has not been able to work since, with lasting mobility and confidence effects.
Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015, Regulation 16(2)
“People rightly expect that when they go to work, they are not put in unnecessary danger.”
Temporary platforms must be designed and checked to bear their working load before anyone is allowed to work beneath them.
The machines, packs and quizzes that fit this kind of site.