A structural engineering firm that had no record of maintaining electrical equipment over a fifty year period has been fined after a worker suffered a shock when he connected a portable welder to an extension cable.
Stewart Baxter, 24, sustained burns to his fingers at DA Green & Sons factory in Whapload, Linccolnshire. Other employers of DA Green & Sons said they too had suffered minor shocks from equipment at the factory over the years.
An HSE investigation revealed much of the electrical installation was in a very poor state. Some of the electrical equipment had been installed 50 years earlier adnd DA Green had no record of it ever being tested or maintained.
"DA Green & Sons Ltd employs 50 staff whose health and safety has been at risk over many years," said HSE inspector Jo Anderson. The company admitted breaching Regulation 4(2) of the Electricity at Work Regualtions, by failing to maintain electrical systems. Spalding magistrated fined it £2750 plus £1950 costs.
Stewart Baxter, 24, sustained burns to his fingers at DA Green & Sons factory in Whapload, Linccolnshire. Other employers of DA Green & Sons said they too had suffered minor shocks from equipment at the factory over the years.
An HSE investigation revealed much of the electrical installation was in a very poor state. Some of the electrical equipment had been installed 50 years earlier adnd DA Green had no record of it ever being tested or maintained.
"DA Green & Sons Ltd employs 50 staff whose health and safety has been at risk over many years," said HSE inspector Jo Anderson. The company admitted breaching Regulation 4(2) of the Electricity at Work Regualtions, by failing to maintain electrical systems. Spalding magistrated fined it £2750 plus £1950 costs.
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