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14/01/2011
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Council-Owned Housing Company Fined For Asbestos Exposure
A company set up by Rotherham Council to manage and improve council houses has been fined, after allowing a plumber to be exposed to up to 50 times the legal limit for asbestos. The firm, 2010 Rotherham Limited, was prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) for a breach of the Health and Safety at Work Act. Rotherham Magistrates heard that the company employed a sub-contactor, Nugas of Barnsley, to remove an old bathroom and install a level-access shower room at a house in Orchard Place. Despite an asbestos survey carried out for 2010 Rotherham on a similar property next door eight weeks earlier that highlighted the presence of asbestos in the bathroom, the results were not passed on to Nugas. The result was that their worker unknowingly removed tiles bonded to a wall of asbestos insulating board (AIB), causing significant damage to the wall. He was not wearing any protective clothing nor respiratory protection. At the same time, a licensed asbestos removal company was in the process of removing the same wall in the flat next door after being appointed by 2010 Rotherham Ltd. The court was told that the company had received previous advice and enforcement action regarding the risks from asbestos during refurbishment work including two enforcement notices in 2005 and 2008. The company pleaded guilty to breaching the Health & Safety at Work Act and was fined £7,000 with £3,418 costs.
Man Jailed For Eight Years For GBH
A 26-year-old man has been charged with GBH with intent. Anthony Lloyd Sue-Patt Jones, 26, of Woodbury Down Estate, North London was sentenced to eight years imprisonment at Snaresbrook Crown Court. He was previously found guilty of GBH with intent on 22 October at the same venue. Patrolling officers were first alerted to an incident outside the nightspot Cargo in Rivington Street, East London in the early hours of Saturday 23 May 2009. They immediately gave first aid to the victim, who was 26 years old at the time. He had been stabbed in the neck with glass and had suffered a deep cut to his throat. He was taken to an east London hospital where he received treatment for the injuries. Three men were arrested following the incident. Two were later released with no further action and the third.
Egg Packing Business Fined For Exposing Workers To Danger
A Banff-based egg packing business has been fined for exposing its employees to the risk of serious injury on a regular basis. Workers employed by the partnership known as James Gammie had to use a specific machine, called a screw conveyor, to clear away chicken manure from each of the company's three sheds at its premises in Leightonhill Farm, Brechin. In November 2008, an inspector from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) inspected the sheds and noted that the guarding on each of the screw conveyors did not adequately prevent access to the moving parts of the machinery. As the screw conveyor was used two or three times a week, this placed employees at significant risk of serious injury, had they become entangled in the machinery. James Gammie of Gawnmoss Farm, Banff, pleaded guilty to breach of regulations. The company was fined £3000.
(BMcN/GK)
A company set up by Rotherham Council to manage and improve council houses has been fined, after allowing a plumber to be exposed to up to 50 times the legal limit for asbestos. The firm, 2010 Rotherham Limited, was prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) for a breach of the Health and Safety at Work Act. Rotherham Magistrates heard that the company employed a sub-contactor, Nugas of Barnsley, to remove an old bathroom and install a level-access shower room at a house in Orchard Place. Despite an asbestos survey carried out for 2010 Rotherham on a similar property next door eight weeks earlier that highlighted the presence of asbestos in the bathroom, the results were not passed on to Nugas. The result was that their worker unknowingly removed tiles bonded to a wall of asbestos insulating board (AIB), causing significant damage to the wall. He was not wearing any protective clothing nor respiratory protection. At the same time, a licensed asbestos removal company was in the process of removing the same wall in the flat next door after being appointed by 2010 Rotherham Ltd. The court was told that the company had received previous advice and enforcement action regarding the risks from asbestos during refurbishment work including two enforcement notices in 2005 and 2008. The company pleaded guilty to breaching the Health & Safety at Work Act and was fined £7,000 with £3,418 costs.
Man Jailed For Eight Years For GBH
A 26-year-old man has been charged with GBH with intent. Anthony Lloyd Sue-Patt Jones, 26, of Woodbury Down Estate, North London was sentenced to eight years imprisonment at Snaresbrook Crown Court. He was previously found guilty of GBH with intent on 22 October at the same venue. Patrolling officers were first alerted to an incident outside the nightspot Cargo in Rivington Street, East London in the early hours of Saturday 23 May 2009. They immediately gave first aid to the victim, who was 26 years old at the time. He had been stabbed in the neck with glass and had suffered a deep cut to his throat. He was taken to an east London hospital where he received treatment for the injuries. Three men were arrested following the incident. Two were later released with no further action and the third.
Egg Packing Business Fined For Exposing Workers To Danger
A Banff-based egg packing business has been fined for exposing its employees to the risk of serious injury on a regular basis. Workers employed by the partnership known as James Gammie had to use a specific machine, called a screw conveyor, to clear away chicken manure from each of the company's three sheds at its premises in Leightonhill Farm, Brechin. In November 2008, an inspector from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) inspected the sheds and noted that the guarding on each of the screw conveyors did not adequately prevent access to the moving parts of the machinery. As the screw conveyor was used two or three times a week, this placed employees at significant risk of serious injury, had they become entangled in the machinery. James Gammie of Gawnmoss Farm, Banff, pleaded guilty to breach of regulations. The company was fined £3000.
(BMcN/GK)
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