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WOMAN HIT BY FALLING
RAIL AT FAIR A fair ride owner has been fined nearly £25,000 including costs after a woman was hit on the head by a falling handrail.
The member of the public required stitches to a head wound and suffered pain in her back and shoulders as a result of the incident at Goose Fair in Nottingham on 6th October 2012.
HSE found the brackets fitting the handrails to the ride walkway were extensively corroded, which caused the bracket to fail and the rail to fall from a height of between 1.5m and 2.5m.
Nottingham Magistrates’ Court was told that ride operator Alex Crow Leisure Ltd should have identified the issue during regular inspections of the ride.
JAGUAR LAND
ROVER PROSECUTED Jaguar Land Rover Ltd has been fined for safety breaches after an employee suffered life-threatening crush injuries when he was dragged into inadequately guarded machinery.
The 57-year-old maintenance electrician from Northfield, Birmingham, who has asked not to be named, punctured both lungs and broke ten ribs, his breastbone, two bones in his spine and two in his right hand. He had blood clots on his heart and kidneys and was in an induced coma in intensive care for 12 days. He was in hospital for a further seven days but was back at work within 17 weeks.
The incident happened in the paint shop at the company’s Lode Lane site in Solihull on 14th June 2013.
A Health and Safety Executive (HSE) investigation found that following the latest in a series of frequent production line stoppages the employee approached a gap in the perimeter guarding that surrounded the vehicle body lifting equipment so
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he could witness the troublesome process in operation.
As he watched he was hit by an empty vehicle body carrier on a circulatory chain conveyor that was travelling through the gap. He was knocked to the ground and forcibly dragged through the gap into a restricted processing area where he was severely crushed.
The gap remained unguarded following the incident until HSE enforcement required that further protective measures be provided. The area of conveyor was enclosed with fixed perimeter guards by Jaguar Land Rover and a robust key exchange access system introduced.
Jaguar Land Rover Ltd, of Abbey Road, Whitley, Coventry, was fined £40,000 with £13,474 costs after pleading guilty to breaching Regulation 11(1) of the Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations.
Passing sentence, His Honour Judge Carr said Jaguar Land Rover “fell far short of a safe and reasonable standard”, adding: “This was an entirely reasonable, foreseeable situation. The breach was an ongoing failure and an accident waiting to happen.”
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