Badly-maintained crane overturned and crushed car
Appearing before Isle of Wight magistrates, Harold Hayles (Yarmouth IW) Ltd admitted two breaches of the Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations 1998 – reg.8(1)(a), for failing to properly plan the lifting operation; and reg.8(1)(c), for failing to ensure the lifting operation was carried out safely.
The firm accepted it had failed to ensure that the crane was maintained in an efficient state and was in good working order – a contravention of reg.5(1) of the Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998; and it also pleaded guilty to a breach of s2(1) of the HSWA 1974.
Sentenced on 28 March, the company was ordered to pay fines totalling £4000 – £1000 for each breach – plus the same amount in costs. The court took into consideration the company’s financial situation.
After the hearing, HSE inspector John Caboche said: “This was a serious incident that could have ended in tragedy had the crane toppled on to a person and not an empty car. It was wholly preventable and could have been avoided had the crane been better maintained, and had the lifting operation been better planned and managed. €
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Badly-maintained crane overturned and crushed car
A car was crushed by a 35-tonne mobile crane, which toppled over during a lifting operation at a boatyard on the Isle of Wight.
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A thousand pound per offence is a farce given the previous intervention and the failure of the thorough examination.
Had a fatality occured serious penalties would have been imposed, yet the failure to control known risk would be the same.
Its a good job he did`nt drop the yacht as well, that would have cost him more?
We spend fortunes mitigating such risk, far more than the fine imposed here?
well thats one less of those useless French cars on the road!! every cloud……..