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A young child has sustained serious personal injury after being hit on the head by part of a lamppost that a workman had dropped while making repairs.
The engineer had been removing the top part of a streetlight to carry out repair work when he dropped the reflector he had been holding. The part crashed down into the pram that the toddler was being pushed in by her mother and hit the child on the head.
The mother escaped unwounded but unfortunately her toddler suffered a head injury from the incident and required stitches.
A Health and Safety Executive (HSE) investigation revealed that the 25-year-old streetlight operative had failed to erect a safety barrier around the lamppost he had been working on which would have kept pedestrians a safe distance from the work area.
The worker appeared at the City of London Magistrates' Court where he admitted to a breach of the Health and Safety at Work Act. He was fined £250 and ordered to pay court costs of £2,888.
The prosecuting HSE inspector stated that the company which employed the operative was exempt of blame. It was due to the reckless disregard of the worker that a small child had suffered serious personal injury and a mother was caused unnecessary distress.
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