KTC (Edibles) Ltd was recently fined £12,500 as well as asked to pay costs to the tune of £2,388 for a number of offences under the Health and Safety Act, 1974 and for violation of Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrence Regulation, 1995. HSE investigating the company stated that a number of offences were taking place in the Moorcroft Drive premises of the company.

In the present case, the company had apparently failed to notify HSE about the injury caused to one of its employees, Noshad Ali, when a mezzanine floor fell on him and trapped him between huge bags containing nearly 1000 kgs of beans and rice. Investigations revealed that the incident had actually occurred in February 2008 but the company had not notified HSE until eight months after the incident accident, when HSE had arrived in the premises for investigating other safety breaches.

HSE was first informed about the incident by an environmental health officer working with the local authority. However, when HSE went to investigate the incident, they were told that no one was injured during the collapse as no one had been working in the vicinity. Despite this, HSE trained the company on how to install protection for the hole that was left due to the fall.

However, the company failed to erect any such protection and HSE was forced to serve a notice against the company to prevent people from working in that area. Moreover, HSE during its investigations also found out other safety breaches like a lorry ramming into a building while narrowly missing a person, and a person being carried in a homemade cage by a forklift. The company accepted its liability and pleaded guilty to the violations mentioned.

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