Site-specific assessment could have stopped gardener's fatal fall

摘要

CITY OF York Council has been fined 20,000 pounds following the death of a council worker when his ride-on lawn mower overturned on sloping ground. The council had not properly assessed the risk and was not following the mower manufacturer's safe operating instructions. Frank Smith, aged 54, died on 19 May 2005 while using a Hayter ride-on mower to cut long, wet grass on an embankment at Water End in York city centre. His job was to cut the top of the embankment and then to turn the mower and tidy up an area near a bridge.