• Groundworker suffers burns during poorly planned dig

    Groundworker suffers burns during poorly planned dig
    A contractor and its groundworks subbie have been fined £400,000 after unsafe excavation work left a worker with serious burns to his hand and arm.
    High Wycombe Magistrates’ Court heard that, on the 2 August 2018, a groundworker was preparing the ground to install a post to carry an Automatic Number Plate Recognition Camera at Twyford near Reading, Berkshire.
    Initially, the worker hand dug then started to use an 110V mechanical electric breaker when he struck a power cable supplying

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