Court hearing after artwork deaths
The creator of an inflatable artwork that flipped over and killed two people has appeared in the Peterlee Magistrates Court yesterday charged with manslaughter by gross negligence and one offence under the Health & Safety at Work Act. Maurice Agis (76) was committed to the Crown Court and will be joined by two more defendants, promotions council Brouhaha International Ltd and Chester-le-Street District Council who were also charged under the Act. Tony Galloway (48) the Council's director of development services has been charged with a separate breach of the Act and he was remanded on unconditional bail. The charges are in connection with an incident when the Dreamspace sculpture flipped into the aire at Chester-le-Street, Co Durham, in July 2006 killing two adults who were inside the sculpture. A further 15 visitors were injured.
Company in dock for third time
A waste disposal, construction and demolition company has been fined £20,000 after an employee was run over by a dumper truck. The company pleaded guilty to contravening s2(1) of HSWA by failing to ensure the safety of an employee, it was also ordered to pay full costs of £6,580. Gloucester Crown Court was told that the incident occurred on 9 August 2004 at a waste transfer station in Gloucester, where rubbish is brought by skips and lorries for recycling or landfill. A dumper truck being driven out of the waste transfer station struck the man as he stood with his back to the doors, running him over and fracturing his pelvis and femur. The driver had been unable to see the supervisor, as the truck had a high load of wooden pallets in the bucket at the front, and he was coping with changes in light between the two areas. In mitigation, the company said it had put a lot of work and investment into health and safety since the incident. The court was told that this incident was the third for which the company had been prosecuted in the last two years. Its construction division was fined £5,000 in January 2005 after an untrained worker overturned a dumper truck while reversing it without wearing a seatbelt, breaking his leg. Its demolition division was fined £12,500 in September 2005 after an untrained and unsupervised operative fell through a fragile roof.
The creator of an inflatable artwork that flipped over and killed two people has appeared in the Peterlee Magistrates Court yesterday charged with manslaughter by gross negligence and one offence under the Health & Safety at Work Act. Maurice Agis (76) was committed to the Crown Court and will be joined by two more defendants, promotions council Brouhaha International Ltd and Chester-le-Street District Council who were also charged under the Act. Tony Galloway (48) the Council's director of development services has been charged with a separate breach of the Act and he was remanded on unconditional bail. The charges are in connection with an incident when the Dreamspace sculpture flipped into the aire at Chester-le-Street, Co Durham, in July 2006 killing two adults who were inside the sculpture. A further 15 visitors were injured.
Company in dock for third time
A waste disposal, construction and demolition company has been fined £20,000 after an employee was run over by a dumper truck. The company pleaded guilty to contravening s2(1) of HSWA by failing to ensure the safety of an employee, it was also ordered to pay full costs of £6,580. Gloucester Crown Court was told that the incident occurred on 9 August 2004 at a waste transfer station in Gloucester, where rubbish is brought by skips and lorries for recycling or landfill. A dumper truck being driven out of the waste transfer station struck the man as he stood with his back to the doors, running him over and fracturing his pelvis and femur. The driver had been unable to see the supervisor, as the truck had a high load of wooden pallets in the bucket at the front, and he was coping with changes in light between the two areas. In mitigation, the company said it had put a lot of work and investment into health and safety since the incident. The court was told that this incident was the third for which the company had been prosecuted in the last two years. Its construction division was fined £5,000 in January 2005 after an untrained worker overturned a dumper truck while reversing it without wearing a seatbelt, breaking his leg. Its demolition division was fined £12,500 in September 2005 after an untrained and unsupervised operative fell through a fragile roof.
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