{"id":135704,"date":"2023-12-15T13:16:24","date_gmt":"2023-12-15T13:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=135704"},"modified":"2025-02-19T12:08:42","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T12:08:42","slug":"newport-city-council-fined-2m-after-death-during-road-repair-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/health-safety-news\/newport-city-council-fined-2m-after-death-during-road-repair-works\/135704\/","title":{"rendered":"Newport City Council fined \u00a32m after death of family man during road repair works"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Newport City Council was fined after Stephen Bell was killed during road repair works in 2019<\/h2>\n<p>Stephen Bell was barrowing tarmac from the back of the local authority\u2019s tipper lorry when he was struck by a farm vehicle passing the road repair works.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_135716\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-135716\" style=\"width: 226px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-135716\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Stephen-Bell1-369x490-1-226x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"226\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Stephen-Bell1-369x490-1-226x300.jpg 226w, https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Stephen-Bell1-369x490-1-316x420.jpg 316w, https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Stephen-Bell1-369x490-1.jpg 369w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 226px) 100vw, 226px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-135716\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stephen Bell, via HSE<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>His wife Jenny spoke about how the loss of the 57-year-old had changed their family&#8217;s life forever.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStephen was a kind, caring and a hardworking man who loved his family very much. He had a smile that lit up a room, an amazing sense of humour and laughter that was contagious,&#8221; she said. \u201cIn the years since he\u2019s been gone, my family and I have missed so much.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRecently, our youngest daughter got married, and didn\u2019t have her father to walk her down the aisle.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>HSE found that there were insufficient measures to distance the workers from the nearby active road<\/h3>\n<p>Stephen Bell and colleagues were working on the section of Langstone Court Road that runs beneath the M4 motorway on 18 July 2019.<\/p>\n<p>A Newport City Council team leader and the four highway operatives were working on foot and authorised to be on the site, but an investigation by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) found that the council did not take all reasonably enforcable steps to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/health-safety-news\/scf-report-reveals-best-construction-site-safety-interventions\/132630\/\">create a safe working environment<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Principally, this related to creating a sufficient safety zone between\u00a0road works area and the running lane (the live part of the carriageway), as well as securing the perimeter.<\/p>\n<h3>Newport City Council was fined for the easily preventable death<\/h3>\n<p>Newport City Council, Civic Centre, Godfrey Road, Newport, pleaded guilty to breaching Section 2(1) and 3(1) of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legislation.gov.uk\/ukpga\/1974\/37\/contents\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974<\/a> and has been fined \u00a32m and ordered to pay costs of \u00a39,780.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking after the hearing, HSE inspector Philip Nicolle said: \u201cThe council\u2019s failures have had a devastating impact on Stephen Bell\u2019s family.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis tragic incident could so easily have been avoided if the council had simply carried out correct control measures and safe working practices.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will not hesitate to take action against those that fall below the required standards.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur thoughts remain with Mrs Bell and those who knew and loved Stephen.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"mk-custom-module-container\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newport City Council was fined after Stephen Bell was killed during road repair works in 2019. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"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":[173010,564,806],"stakeholder_rel_tag":[],"contributor_rel_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-135704","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-health-safety-news","7":"tag-construction-crime-and-law","8":"tag-hse","9":"tag-road-improvements"},"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>Newport City Council fined \u00a32m after death during road repair work<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Newport City Council was fined after Stephen Bell was killed during road repair works in 2019 when he was hit by a passing farm vehicle\" \/>\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\/newport-city-council-fined-2m-after-death-during-road-repair-works\/135704\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Newport City Council fined \u00a32m after death of family man during road repair works\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Newport City Council was fined after Stephen Bell was killed during road repair works in 2019 when he was hit by a passing farm vehicle\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/health-safety-news\/newport-city-council-fined-2m-after-death-during-road-repair-works\/135704\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Planning, Building &amp; 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