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Firm fined £4k over electric shock

[2008-7-21]

Tag : Burns Electric
An East Yorkshire firm has been fined after a worker received aserious electric shock when he came in contact with live cabling.
Hogarth Construction employee Mark Dougherty suffered burns to hishand and face after making contact with the live underground 400vcable while working on a construction site at North Ferriby inSeptember 2006.
The firm received a £4,000 fine and was ordered to pay£1,616 in costs when the ruling was handed down at theBeverley Crown Court earlier today.
The court heard the company was aware that live underground cableswere present on site but had not instructed the workforce.
HSE inspector David Stewart said: "Mr Dougherty was extremelyfortunate to only receive superficial burns. This type of incidentoften has fatal consequences."
He said that there were 18 workers killed because of contact withelectricity in 2006/7 – half of which were from theconstruction sector.


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