£15k fine - gaping hole through shin!

£15k fine - gaping hole through shin!

ACP (Concrete) Ltd of Workington, was successfully prosecuted by the HSE for failing to properly inspect and maintain grips used to hold tensioned cables and as a consequence has been fined £15,000 after a steel cable shot through a worker’s leg at the firm’s factory.

On 19 March 2009 one of the grips, which was holding a 200ft cable, failed and an employee, Jamie Graham, a 25-year-old from Cockermouth, was left with a gaping hole through his shin. He was in a full-leg cast for six weeks afterwards and on crutches for another four months.

HSE Inspector Mike Griffin said:

“This terrifying incident should have been prevented. The lack of any inspection or maintenance of the grips meant that problems with them were only detected when a grip failed. That could sometimes result in a cable being released with 2000lbs tension.

“The company should have ensured that the task of re-threading the cables in a partially tensioned bed was properly assessed and that significant risks to its employees were properly controlled by a safe system of work.”

David Jones, Editor-in-Chief of CDM2007.org comments:

“It is vital that any organisation ensures all of its operations are undertaken with absolute safety assured. This means using competent persons working with full and complete knowledge of the tasks involved, using robust method statements and making sound judgements based upon fully reasoned assessments”

“Everyone has the right to have the absolute assurance from their employer that they can go to work in a safe place and will return home again safely without suffering any harm or damage whatsoever”

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