A property agency has been fined £80,000 after an asbestos surveyor died following {an electrical} explosion.
Inverness-based Global Energy Nigg Limited pleaded responsible to a well being and security breach earlier than Tain Sheriff Court on Wednesday.
The Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) stated Christopher Wayne Earley’s dying was “entirely avoidable”.
Mr Earley, the director of CWE Asbestos Consultants Ltd, was injured on 10 December 2020 whereas finishing up a survey of a big disused fabrication workshop on behalf of Global Energy Nigg Limited at Nigg Energy Park, also called The Port of Nigg, within the Cromarty Firth.
The 64-year-old entered {an electrical} change room which seemed to be out of operation as a part of his inspection, the COPFS stated.
He opened {an electrical} cupboard, which set off a flash brought on by {an electrical} flashover – a high-current electrical discharge by way of an air hole between conductors.
As a outcome, Mr Earley suffered important burns and later died in hospital on 10 March 2021.
An investigation by the Health and Safety Executive discovered Global Energy Nigg Limited had failed to keep up the change room in an applicable situation.
Investigators discovered there was no inside door and no visible warning {of electrical} hazard on the doorway.
Live change panels didn’t carry any appropriate warning indicators or labelling, and redundant panels have been additionally not marked.
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Debbie Carroll, who leads on well being and security investigations for COPFS, stated: “Christopher Wayne Earley lost his life in circumstances which were foreseeable and entirely avoidable.
“By failing to keep up the change room in an applicable situation Global Energy Nigg Limited put somebody not employed by them at unacceptable threat.
“This prosecution should remind duty holders that failing to take reasonable health and safety measures can have fatal consequences and they will be held accountable for this failure.”
In a press release, Global Energy Nigg Limited stated: “Global Energy Group express its sincere condolences to the individual’s family and friends following this tragic accident.
“The well being and security of everybody that works in and across the facility continues to be our prime precedence.”
Source: information.sky.com”
