HSE to prosecute over fatal Milton Keynes scaffolding collapse
16:39 07 Jan 2009
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The Health and Safety Executive has announced that it will prosecute three companies and a director following a fatal scaffolding collapse in Milton Keynes in 2006.
Worker John Robinson was killed at a McAleer & Rushe construction site on 11 April 2006 when an independent tied perimeter scaffold collapsed. Two others, Mark Robinson and Ivan Peukov, suffered multiple injures.
McAleer & Rushe, of Cookstown, Northern Ireland faces a total of six charges for alleged breaches of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974, the Work at Height Regulations 2005 and the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 1994.
Lee Smith Carpentry Limited of Abby Park Industrial Estate, Romsey, Hampshire faces a total of five charges in respect for alleged breaches of the HSW Act, CDM Regulations and WAH Regulations.
NNM Scaffolding Limited, of Castle Street, Leicester faces a total of five charges for alleged breaches of the HSW Act, the WAH Regulations and the Construction (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1996 (CHSWR).
Meanwhile John David King, of Alicante, Spain faces a total of four charges for alleged breaches of the HSW Act, CHSW Regulations and the WAH Regulations. He is charged as a director of NNM Scaffolding Limited.
All parties have been summoned to appear before Milton Keynes Magistrates’ Court on 13 February 2009.