{"id":108081,"date":"2022-03-22T17:04:12","date_gmt":"2022-03-22T17:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=108081"},"modified":"2022-03-22T17:32:03","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T17:32:03","slug":"contractor-sentenced-following-unsafe-excavation-work-denton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/health-safety-news\/contractor-sentenced-following-unsafe-excavation-work-denton\/108081\/","title":{"rendered":"Contractor sentenced following unsafe excavation work in Denton"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>A principal contractor has been sentenced after it was discovered that he had supervised unsafe excavation work on a site in Denton, putting workers in danger and rendering the neighbouring property unstable<\/h2>\n<p>Manchester Magistrates\u2019 Court heard how between 2019 and 2020 Mustapha Matib had employed several groundworkers to excavate land at Gibraltar Lane, Denton in preparation for the construction of a family home.<\/p>\n<p>However, neighbours were concerned and following an inspection on the site in August 2020, work was stopped when serious fall risks and potential collapse were identified.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-108083 size-full alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Matib-2-300x144.jpg\" alt=\"unsafe excavation work\" width=\"300\" height=\"144\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Mr Matib had failed on numerous fronts on the unsafe excavation work, HSE reported<\/h3>\n<p>An investigation was conducted by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hse.gov.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Health and Safety Executive<\/a> (HSE) which found that the contractor had failed to prepare a construction phase plan, risk assessment and method statements.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Matib also failed to appoint a site manager with suitable skills, knowledge and experience to plan, manage and monitor the work and ensure the health, safety, and welfare of those carrying out the work or others who may be affected by their actions.<\/p>\n<h3>Inspectors also identified a large, deep and unprotected excavation, which presented a significant fall risk<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-108082 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Matib-1-225x300-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/h3>\n<p>The deep, unprotected<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/health-safety-news\/ms-water-fined\/95591\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> excavation<\/a> gave rise to foreseeable fall risk.<\/p>\n<p>Not only this but HSE also noted that\u00a0excavations were not shored or suitably battered back to prevent the risk of collapse.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, personal protective equipment had not been provided and shockingly, some workers were working barefoot on site.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/hs2-excavation-tunnel-vent-shaft\/96740\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">unsafe excavation work<\/a> site was not adequately cordoned off which meant unauthorised persons could easily enter and\u00a0neighbouring property had been undermined with parts of the property at risk of collapse due to the excavation work.<\/p>\n<h3>The principal contractor pleaded guilty and was sentenced to prison, unpaid work and ordered to pay a fine<\/h3>\n<p>Mustapha Matib of Allerton Road, Bradford pleaded guilty to breaching Regulations 2(1) and 3(1) of the Health &amp; Safety at Work etc. Act 1974. He was sentenced to sixteen weeks imprisonment suspended for twelve months, ordered to carry out 200 hours unpaid work and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/health-safety-news\/roofing-company-fined-after-worker-falls-from-height\/107591\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pay costs of \u00a35,673<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking after the hearing, HSE inspector Phil Redman said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInspectors will not hesitate to take appropriate enforcement action against dutyholders who fall below the required standards and put lives at risk.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"mk-custom-module-container\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A principal contractor has been sentenced after it was discovered that he had supervised unsafe excavation work on a site in Denton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"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":[676,276,432,572,753,592],"stakeholder_rel_tag":[],"contributor_rel_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-108081","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-health-safety-news","7":"tag-construction","8":"tag-government","9":"tag-health-safety","10":"tag-housebuilding","11":"tag-safety","12":"tag-skills"},"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>Contractor sentenced following unsafe excavation work in Denton<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A principal contractor has been sentenced after it was discovered that he had supervised unsafe excavation work on a site in Denton\" \/>\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\/contractor-sentenced-following-unsafe-excavation-work-denton\/108081\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Contractor sentenced following unsafe excavation work in Denton\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A principal contractor has been sentenced after it was discovered that he had supervised unsafe excavation work on a site in Denton\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/health-safety-news\/contractor-sentenced-following-unsafe-excavation-work-denton\/108081\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Planning, Building &amp; 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