{"id":100018,"date":"2021-10-05T12:33:53","date_gmt":"2021-10-05T11:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=100018"},"modified":"2021-10-05T12:33:53","modified_gmt":"2021-10-05T11:33:53","slug":"construction-worker-paralysed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/health-safety-news\/construction-worker-paralysed\/100018\/","title":{"rendered":"Construction company fined \u00a340k after worker paralysed"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>A company has been fined after a worker was paralysed when the concrete floor he was working on collapsed and he fell 11 metres down a stairwell at the Watford Football Stadium<\/h2>\n<p>Peterborough Magistrates\u2019 Court heard that on 14 June 2016, workers were constructing a new hospitality and seating stand at the stadium of Watford Football Club.<\/p>\n<p>The concrete floor and associated formwork collapsed causing a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/health-safety-news\/fatal-injuries-in-construction\/96029\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">number of workers to fall<\/a>. Most of the workers were able to cling to the structure to escape serious injury.<\/p>\n<p>Ashley Grealish fell approximately 11 metres down the mouth of a stairwell to the basement below sustaining multiple injuries including spinal damage, which caused permanent paralysis from the waist down.<\/p>\n<p>An investigation by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hse.gov.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Health &amp; Safety Executive<\/a> (HSE) found that the company\u2019s temporary works management system was lacking. The contractor should have had a suitable design for the temporary works, which are part of a construction project needed to enable the permanent structure to be built, taking proper account of the vertical load and the need for horizontal stability.<\/p>\n<p>There should also have been a robust system to check the temporary works were properly installed and thoroughly assessed before starting to load it with the wet concrete to form the floor slab.<\/p>\n<h3>A life-changing incident that could have been fatal<\/h3>\n<p>ECS Groundwork Ltd pleaded guilty to breaching Regulations 19 (1), 19(2) and 19(3) of the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015.<\/p>\n<p>The company was fined \u00a340,000 and ordered to pay costs of \u00a314,505.<\/p>\n<p>HSE inspector Rauf Ahmed, said: \u201cThe injuries suffered by Mr Grealish are life-changing and the incident could easily have been fatal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis serious incident and devastation could have been avoided if the company had planned a safe system of work to prevent the support system used to cast the concrete floor from collapsing.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"mk-custom-module-container\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A company has been fined after a worker was paralysed when the concrete floor he was working on collapsed and he fell 11 metres down a stairwell at the Watford Football Stadium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[309],"tags":[432,564],"stakeholder_rel_tag":[],"contributor_rel_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-100018","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-health-safety-news","7":"tag-health-safety","8":"tag-hse"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Construction company fined \u00a340k after worker paralysed<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A company has been fined after a worker was paralysed when the concrete floor he was working on collapsed and he fell 11 metres at the Watford stadium\u00a0\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/health-safety-news\/construction-worker-paralysed\/100018\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Construction company fined \u00a340k after worker paralysed\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A company has been fined after a worker was paralysed when the concrete floor he was working on collapsed and he fell 11 metres at the Watford stadium\u00a0\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/health-safety-news\/construction-worker-paralysed\/100018\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Planning, Building &amp; 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