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15th November 2007
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Firm fined after driver hurt in overhead cables accident

Neath-based Cuddy Demolition & Dismantling was ordered to pay £16.659 in fines and costs after a driver received serious bUrns when the body of his tipper came into contact with 33kV overhead power lines.

The company pleaded guilty at Swansea Crown Court to breaching the Electricity at Work Regulations 1989 in a prosecution brought by the Health and Safety Executive.

The court was told Andrew Davies was ra sing the tipper bed of his vehicle to drop the load when it came into contact with the overhead power lines on the Players Industrial Estate, Swansea, in May last year. Davies suffered burns to his hands, legs and feet.

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Organisations: Swansea Crown Court
People: Andrew Davies
Locations: Neath

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