Company fined after worker injured in fall from dock

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Company fined after worker injured in fall from dock

Posted on September 8, 2010 by

A company was fined a total of £14,000 after a night watchman was injured falling into water from the quayside. The company director has today been fined a total of £2,750 for failing to carry out a risk assessment.

RM Supplies (Inverkeithing) Ltd had pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing to breaching Regulation 4(1) and 5 of the Docks Regulations 1988. The company was fined a total of £14,000.

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