£100k fine after worker fatality on sea platform

摘要

An offshore services company has been fined for serious safety failings following the fatality of a worker. He was undertaking a sweep to remove dropped objects that could fall and injure divers below when he plunged 23 metres from a platform into the sea - striking steelwork as he fell. When he landed in the water, his lifejacket inflated and a rescue vessel was deployed. Despite showing some signs of consciousness during the rescue he died from his injuries before reaching the onsite hospital. Lee Bertram, then 37, from Newcastle, Tyne and Wear, was working for Bilfinger Salamis UK Limited on a platform in the North Sea when the incident happened on 16 June 2011.