Construction company fined £66,000
publication date: Mar 4, 2009
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is warning contractors about the safe conduct of lifting operations on construction sites after a falling bucket killed an employee. P Colohan and Company Ltd of Croydon was prosecuted after the death of John Walsh, a construction supervisor, on their site in Wood Green, Haringey, on the 6 May 2004. On Friday 27 February 2009 they were fined £66,000 and ordered to pay costs of £40,950 at the Central Criminal Court, Old Bailey, after pleading guilty to a breach of Regulation 8(1)(c) of The Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations 1998 (commonly known as LOLER).
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