Two maintenance fitters were seriously injured when a 300kg door fell on them. The protective headgear worn by one of them took the brunt of the blow – he would probably have been killed had he not been wearing it.
They had been sent to repair a jammed door, damaged by a fork lift truck, at the Tata steelworks in Workington, Cumbria, in April 2009. The ensuing HSE investigation found that Tata Steel UK Ltd had failed to make sure a suitable risk assessment was carried out for the work and did not have a robust system in place to ensure its maintenance staff were carrying out work safely. The company pleaded guilty to breaching section 2(1) HSWA 1974 before Workington magistrates on 22 December 2011, and was fined £13,000 and ordered to pay £11,631 in costs.
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Legal notes: Section 2(1) of HSWA 1974 addresses the general duties of employers to their employees.
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