The Deeside office of UK housebuilder Redrow has been found guilty of breaching the Health and Safety at Work Act, after the 2013 death of 67-year-old scaffolder Henry Jones, who was crushed by a dumper truck on a Liverpool building site. A jury in Warrington heard that Jones had suffered serious injuries to his back and legs when he fell from scaffolding while working for the company between August 2012 and March 2013. Sub-contractor WPI Civil Engineering was fined £300,000 with court costs of £17,000.
The Deeside office of UK housebuilder Redrow has been found guilty of breaching the Health and Safety at Work Act, after the 2013 death of 67-year-old scaffolder Henry Jones, who was crushed by a dumper truck on a Liverpool building site. During the case, Redrow, which entered a guilty plea, was criticised for poor traffic management across the site, and was fined £500,000 ($693,325) and ordered to pay costs of £101,000. Sub-contractor WPI Civil Engineering was fined £300,000 with court costs of £17,000.