Network Rail fined overtrack maintenance worker death

摘要

Network Rail has been fined £125,000 and ordered to pay costs of £85,000 following the death of a track maintenance worker. On 11 June 2008, Malcolm Slater was working alongside colleagues to repair damaged overhead lines at Margaretting, near Chelmsford in Essex. The maintenance team was working at a height of approximately 15 feet on a mobile elevated platform attached to a vehicle when the platform became detached and fell to the ground. All three occupants of the platform sustained injuries in the fall, including fractured bones and bruising, while Mr Slater suffered far more serious injuries and subsequently died on 1 July 2008.