Monday Accident & Lessons Learned: What Does a Human Error Cost? A £566,670 Fine in the UK!
(Not actual truck, For illustration only.)
The UK HSE fined a construction company £566,670 after a dump truck touched (or came near) a power line causing a short.
No one was hurt and the truck suffered only minor damage.
The driver tried to pull forward to finish dumping his load and caused a short.
Why did the company get fined?
“A suitable and sufficient assessment would have identified the need to contact the Distribution Network Operator, Western Power, to request the OPL’s were diverted underground prior to the commencement of construction. If this was not reasonably practicable, Mick George Ltd should have erected goalposts either side of the OPL’s to warn drivers about the OPL’s. “
That was the statement from the UK HSE Inspector as quoted in a hazarded article.
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