Urban Summit Construction Ltd was the principal contractor on a construction site at King Edward Quay in Colchester, where it was building 780 student accommodation apartments for JR Pickstock.
On 8th January 2014, during a lifting operation using the site鈥檚 tower crane, a load became detached from the chains and landed on the banksman who was in charge of the operation. David Holloway, 35, sustained extensive injuries and died on site.
The Health & Safety Executive (HSE) prosecuted Urban Summit Construction Ltd at Colchester Magistrates Court after an investigation found that it had failed to ensure that lifting operation was carried out in a safe manner.
The company had only just been incorporated less than five months earlier.
Urban Summit Construction Ltd of Little Downham, Ely, Cambridgeshire was fined 拢15,000 and ordered to pay 拢29,127 in costs after pleading guilty to breaching Regulation 8 (1)(c) of the Lifting Operations & Lifting Equipment Regulations 1998.
HSE inspector David King said after the hearing: 鈥淚t is essential that lifting operations are carried out in a safe manner, to help ensure the lift is carried out without risk to those in the area. Lifting operations must be properly planed by a competent person, carried out by adequately trained persons, and with appropriate supervision.鈥�
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