23/11/2010 - Waste firm fined after leg injury
A waste management company has been ordered to pay more than £21,400 in fines and costs after a worker's leg was crushed between two steel frames.
McGrath Bros (Waste Control) Ltd, based in London, pleaded guilty to breaching health and safety regulations after the incident in January 2008.
The employee suffered nine fractures in his leg after he and two colleagues attempted to unload steel frames from a lorry at the Debden Wharf site in Barking.
The frames were resting on top of building rubble in the lorry and while attempting to lift the frame with a crane and chains, one chain slipped causing the hoisted frame to fall back into the lorry.
The employee, who worked as a driver, had his leg crushed as he became trapped between two 700kg steel-fabricated frames. The man spent six months in hospital and nursing homes and was off work for 14 months.
At City of London Magistrates' Court, McGrath (Waste Control) Ltd, of McGrath House, Hepscott Road, Hackney, admitted breaching section 2 (1) of the Health and Safety at Work Act and was fined £14,000 and ordered to pay £7,447 in costs.
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