Fall from height: site visitor fell into unguarded and unlit pit.(Channel Commercials accused of liability for David Paling's accident)

Publication: The Safety & Health Practitioner

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A Kent company in one of the HSE's main target industries has been fined [pounds sterling]10,000 after a man fell into an unguarded pit at its premises and sustained serious injuries.

Channel Commercials, a motor vehicle repair and maintenance firm, pleaded guilty before Sevenoaks magistrates on 28 September to a breach of s3(1) of the HSWA by failing to prevent HGV driver David Paling from falling into a vehicle wash-pit on 8 September 2004. It was fined [pounds sterling]10,000 plus...

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