{"id":53830,"date":"2019-03-12T10:43:15","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T10:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=53830"},"modified":"2019-03-12T10:43:15","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T10:43:15","slug":"employee-killed-overhead-power-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/health-safety-news\/employee-killed-overhead-power-line\/53830\/","title":{"rendered":"Company pleads guilty after employee killed by overhead power line"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>A company has been fined after an employee was killed by an overhead power line in 2016<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hse.gov.uk\/\">Health and Safety Executive (HSE)<\/a> found that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.optionsenergyservices.co.uk\/\">Options Energy Resource LLP<\/a> had identified the risk from OHPL\u2019s in risk assessments but had failed to implement them and adequately plan construction work and to train its employees.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov.uk\/\">Luton Crown Court<\/a> heard how, on 16 September 2016, Darren Waterman, a driver employed by <a href=\"https:\/\/justgrab.co.uk\/services\/just-concrete-services\/\">Just Grab Services<\/a> to unload material at Fillets Farm, Hunsdon, Hertfordshire, was using the grab arm when it came into contact with an 11kv overhead power line (OHPL) and he was killed.<\/p>\n<p>The site was managed by Options Energy Resource LLP.<\/p>\n<p>Options Energy Resource LLP of Hanbury Drive, Leytonstone, London pleaded guilty to breaching section 3 of the <a href=\"https:\/\/worksmart.org.uk\/health-advice\/health-and-safety\/employer-duties\/what-health-and-safety-work-act\">Health and Safety at Work Etc Act 1974<\/a> and was fined \u00a3400,000.00 and ordered to pay costs of \u00a317,242.33.<\/p>\n<p>After the hearing, HSE inspector Samantha Wells said: \u201cThis was a tragic and wholly avoidable incident, caused by the failure of Options Energy Resource LLP to implement safe systems of work and to ensure that health and safety documentation was communicated and followed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery year in the UK, two<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/health-safety-news\/contractor-guilty-employee-fell\/53378\/\"> people are killed<\/a> and<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/health-safety-news\/basildon-borough-wall-collapses-child\/52677\/\"> many more are injured<\/a> when machinery comes into contact with, or close proximity to, overhead power lines.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"mk-custom-module-container\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A company has been fined after an employee was killed by an overhead power line in 2016.<\/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":[676,432,564,753],"stakeholder_rel_tag":[],"contributor_rel_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-53830","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-health-safety-news","7":"tag-construction","8":"tag-health-safety","9":"tag-hse","10":"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>Company pleads guilty after employee killed by overhead power line<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A company has been fined after an employee was killed by an overhead power line in 2016\" \/>\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\/employee-killed-overhead-power-line\/53830\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Company pleads guilty after employee killed by overhead power line\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A company has been fined after an employee was killed by an overhead power line in 2016\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/health-safety-news\/employee-killed-overhead-power-line\/53830\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Planning, Building &amp; 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