Taylor Wimpey fined for apprentice fatality

摘要

A MAJOR CONSTRUCTION contractor's failure to take basic precautions to separate vehicles and pedestrians has cost it 75,000 pounds after an 18-year-old bricklayer's labourer died when a tractor loader skidded to a stop, crushing him against a mortar silo. Taylor Wimpey Developments (formerly Taylor Woodrow Developments), the principal contractor at a housing development in Stoke-on-Trent, admitted failing to ensure the safety of modern apprentice Grant Meyrick as required by Section 3(1) of the Health and Safety at Work Act.