A Kilmarnock employer has been fined for safety failings after a worker was crushed to death when a heavy gate came off its hinges and fell onto him. Malcolm Macdonald Kennedy, 69, of Riccarton, Kilmarnock, a retired fitter, had been working on a casual basis for Alistair Thomas Corrie, who trades as A Corrie Skip Hire, for around eight years when the incident happened on 12 December 2011. Kilmarnock Sheriff Court heard today (3 Nov) that Mr Kennedy was often the first to arrive at the firm’s premises on the Loreny Industrial Estate, Umberley Road, Kilmarnock, and used his own...
HSE advice on where the responsibility lies Automated gate safety - HSE advice on where the responsibility lies Pictured after the Gate Safety Week seminar, Stuart Charles (centre) with DHF chairman Bob Perry (left) and DHF Powered Gate Group chairman Neil Sampson. Ensuring the safety of automated gates must be a shared responsibility between building professionals, according to Health & Safety Executive inspector Stuart Charles. Those involved at every stage of the design and development of a building have a duty to ensure automated gates are safe. These include developers, architects, contractors, landlords, maintenance companies and installers, he said. Stuart...
A Leicester company has been fined £3,300 for failing to install adequate guarding on an electric gate that trapped a young child at a primary school. Dudley Magistrates’ Court today heard that an eight-year-old boy was injured when his head became trapped between the edge of the closing gate and the gate post. The youngster suffered significant bruising to the right side of his head and ear. His father, who witnessed the incident, tried desperately to hold the gate to stop it closing further and managed to pull it open enough to release his son’s head. An investigation by the...
Salford Council fined for 'guillotine' gate that injured boy's hand
Staff opened the gate to let 10 children into the playground for the lunchtime break when the boy's left hand became trapped in the hinges
A council has been fined £20,000 after a six-year-old boy with learning difficulties lost three fingertips in a "guillotine effect" school gate.
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HSE
http://press.hse.gov.uk/2014/salford-council-prosecuted-after-child-loses-fingertips-in-school-gate/
BBC
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-26888045
Latest HSE Update. Firms fined for child’s death in electric sliding gate Date: 12 June 2014 A Swansea installation firm and a Cardiff maintenance company have been sentenced for serious safety failings after a five-year-old girl was crushed to death by an electric gate. Karolina Golabek was killed when she became trapped between the closing edge of the gate and the gate post outside flats near her home in Bridgend on 3 July 2010. The incident was investigated by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), which prosecuted John Glen (Installation Services) Ltd and Tremorfa Ltd after finding the gate was...
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