{"id":51268,"date":"2019-01-18T12:25:17","date_gmt":"2019-01-18T12:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=51268"},"modified":"2019-01-18T12:25:51","modified_gmt":"2019-01-18T12:25:51","slug":"labourer-seriously-injured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/health-safety-news\/labourer-seriously-injured\/51268\/","title":{"rendered":"Self-employed labourer seriously injured"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Darlington Borough Council have been sentenced after a self-employed labourer was injured when a pack of roof trusses fell on him<\/h2>\n<p>Newton Aycliffe Magistrates\u2019 Court heard how, on 5 October 2017, a self-employed labourer was working for two<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/health-safety-news\/roofer-sentenced\/50196\/\"> self-employed bricklayers<\/a> sub-contracted to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.darlington.gov.uk\/\">Darlington Borough Council<\/a>. He was walking past the front of the building plot at Allington Way, Darlington, when a pack of roof trusses fell on him, trapping him by the head and arm.<\/p>\n<p>An investigation by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hse.gov.uk\/\">Health and Safety Executive (HSE)<\/a> found there was an overall failure to adequately monitor work activities at the site at Allington Way, Darlington.<\/p>\n<p>The factors contributing to the incident included inadequate arrangements for the storage of roof trusses, failure to manage the amount of materials on site, failure to plan for parking of vehicles on site and poor housekeeping on site.<\/p>\n<p>Andrea Robbins, HSE inspector commented: \u201cIt is vital that work activities on construction sites are properly planned, managed and monitored to prevent issues like this developing on site \u2013 the failures found here ultimately led to the roof trusses falling onto the labourer, causing serious injuries. This could have been prevented.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Darlington Borough Council of Town Hall, Darlington <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/health-safety-news\/contractor-client-and-director-found-guilty-of-breaching-health-and-safety-regulations\/43638\/\">pleaded guilty to breaching<\/a> Regulation 13(1) of the Construction (Design &amp; Management) Regulations 2015 and has today been fined \u00a328,000 with \u00a31,648.45 in costs.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mk-custom-module-container\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Darlington Borough Council have been sentenced after a self-employed labourer was injured when a pack of roof trusses fell on him.<\/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":[432,564,753],"stakeholder_rel_tag":[],"contributor_rel_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-51268","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-health-safety-news","7":"tag-health-safety","8":"tag-hse","9":"tag-safety"},"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>Self-employed labourer seriously injured<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Darlington Borough Council have been sentenced after a self-employed labourer was injured when a pack of roof trusses fell on him\" \/>\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\/labourer-seriously-injured\/51268\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Self-employed labourer seriously injured\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Darlington Borough Council have been sentenced after a self-employed labourer was injured when a pack of roof trusses fell on him\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/health-safety-news\/labourer-seriously-injured\/51268\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Planning, Building &amp; 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