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A demolition worker from Croydon has been fined after a colleague sustained personal injuries in an accident at work.
The 44-year-old had been working alongside four other colleagues at Leybourne Grange Hospital, when the work accident took place. As his colleagues worked to re-claim bricks the man got into the driving seat of a 13 tonne excavator and started to manoeuvre it around the demolition site.
Unfortunately, he lost control of the vehicle and crashed into a nearby wall which collapsed and trapped one of the other workers beneath the rubble.
The worker sustained severe leg injuries in the work accident, including a broken ankle and a shattered shin bone. He was forced to undergo surgery and have a steel plate inserted in order to hold the broken bones together.
A Health and Safety Executive (HSE) investigation revealed that the driver of the excavator had not been authorised by his employer to drive the vehicle. He had also not undergone training in how to handle the machine and therefore should not have got behind the wheel.
The worker appeared at Maidstone Magistrates Court where he admitted a breach of the Health and Safety at Work Act. He was sentenced to carry out 120 hours of community service and ordered to pay £500 in court costs as a result of the accident at work.
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