Denis Thornhill and his company D.S. Thornhill (Rushton) Exiguous were fined a mixed £16,000 after 64-300 and sixty five days-historic Price Younger was killed at Moss Corridor Farm on 1 February 2021.
Earlier this 300 and sixty five days, Thornhill and the company been stumbled on responsible of breaching health and safety legislation following a six-week trial at Chester Crown Court docket. The jury cleared 78-300 and sixty five days-historic Thornhill on a fee of substandard negligence manslaughter. They returned to the an identical court docket closing week to be sentenced.
Within the route of the trial, the court docket was told that Younger, who labored as a roof artisan, had been requested to receive repairs to a roof panel and repair a blocked gutter on the an identical building. As he was strolling across the roof, he broken a 2nd roof panel so a replacement was purchased to assemble a extra repair.
He returned along with his son three days later to entire the work and requested to be raised as much as enact it. Thornhill arrived with a forklift truck that had a potato field balanced on its forks.
Younger was lifted up inside the potato field to a top of around 16 feet, whereas his son, who was on the roof, attempted to reposition the panel from above. As Younger moved to one aspect of the potato field, it brought about it to overbalance and he fell to the floor and sustained lethal head injuries.
The potato field old to make a selection Price Younger was unsecured to the forklift truck with him inside it
HSE Inspector Ian Betley acknowledged after the hearing: “This was a tragic incident that can so with out problems comprise been shunned.
“The forklift truck and potato field were the corrupt pieces of apparatus for the job and never a proper platform for working at top. The work must easy instead comprise been implemented utilizing a tower scaffold, scissor pick, or a cherry picker.
“In bringing the forklift truck and potato field and utilizing it to make a selection Price at top, the company was on top of things of the work but had didn’t implement staunch planning and staunch execution of it.
“All corporations comprise a staunch responsibility to receive certain the protection of workers they utilize or who assemble work for them. If that had took predicament in this case, then Price’s existence wouldn’t comprise been misplaced.”
A joint investigation by Cheshire Constabulary and the HSE stumbled on that on the day of the accident there was no staunch system of work applied for working at top and unsuitable work equipment was old.
Denis Thornhill of Tarporley, Cheshire was cleared of manslaughter but was also stumbled on responsible of safety breaches and was fined £4,000 and ordered to pay costs of £4,000.
D.S. Thornhill (Rushton) Exiguous of Tarporley, Cheshire was also stumbled on responsible of safety breaches and was fined £12,000 and ordered to pay costs of £10,000.
