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28th June 2012, Page 18
28th June 2012
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• Construction giant Costain was fined £250,000 after 38-year-old surveyor Richard Craddock was killed by a reversing tipper delivering crushed stone on the M25 widening scheme near Dartford. The company was prosecuted because it did not separate the movements of vehicles and people.

• Sheffield-based contractor JF Finnegan and Saxby Surfacing were together fined £22,500 after a tipper’s body was raised to come in contact with a 66,000V electric cable, while delivering to a road-building scheme in Doncaster. In this case the driver escaped without injury, although the vehicle’s mechanics were burnt out.

• Mole Valley Feed Solutions was fined £6,000 with £4,000 costs after tipper driver Lee Waters fell from his vehicle while trying to remove sheeting covering a load of grain. The prosecution was based on a breach of the Work from Height Regulations 2005. http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/735/contents/made • Leeds City Council was fined £10,500 for not erecting proper signage to prevent a tipper coming into contact with overhead cables at its Red Hall construction depot in 2010. The charge blew out all the tyres on the vehicle.