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£70,000 fine for Clyde Valley Housing Association Ltd

Date:
7 April 2010
Release No:
SCO/135/10

Clyde Valley Housing Association Limited was fined £70,000 after a security guard died from carbon monoxide poisoning on a construction site in Burbank, Hamilton.

Hamilton Sheriff Court heard that on 6 February 2008, the security guard was overcome with fumes from a petrol generator used inside the site office.

On Friday 26 March Clyde Valley Housing Association Limited, 50 Scott Street, Motherwell, ML1 1PN pleaded guilty to breaching section 3(1) of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974.

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  1. HSE is Britain's national regulator for workplace safety and health. It aims to reduce injuries and illness in the workplace.
  2. Section 3(1) of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 states: "It shall be the duty of every employer to conduct his undertaking in such a way as to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, that persons not in his employment who may be effected thereby are not thereby exposed to risks to their health or safety."

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Updated 2010-07-04