Hard-upbuilding firm fined £5k for trench-collapse death

摘要

A Buckinghamshire construction company has been fined £5000 after a contractor died when a trench collapsed on him. Joshua Bladon, 22, (pictured) of Leighton Buzzard, was working for Pitstone-based Russell Smith Ltd at a site in Aylesbury on 16 April 2008. He was digging the trench for the foundations of a house extension with acolleague, who was using a mini-excavator. The original plan was for a trench of a uniform depth of 1.2m but a buildings inspector on the site on the day noticed that trees on an adjacent property would be affected. He therefore asked for the trench to be dug to the NHBC (National House-Building Council) standard of 2 metres.