Representatives for BRB Site Excavation and Groundworks Limited, appeared in the Royal Court yesterday after the business pleaded guilty to breaching health and safety laws. It followed an incident that occurred on Andium Homes’ Samares Nurseries site in St Clement in July last year.
Crown Advocate Chris Baglin, prosecuting, told the court that the employee involved had been reversing an open-cab dumper truck off of a spoil pile when the vehicle overturned ¬ rolling down the pile and crashing through a wooden fence.
The operator – who had not received any driver training – sustained three broken ribs, two fractured vertebrae, a deep cut to his chin and spent six days in hospital. He is still receiving ongoing occupational therapy treatment.
Advocate Debbie Corbel, defending, said that the company apologised to all those affected by the incident and that it would be spending £65,000 over the next two years on health and safety services.
She added that the company, established 25 years ago, had not previously committed any health and safety offences.
Full story: tomorrow’s JEP.
