Skip Hire company prosecuted

21/02/2012

Fines totalling €20,000 were handed down to Derry White Skip Hire Ltd and one of its Directors, Mr. Derry White, by Judge Carl Moran in the Limerick Circuit Court on 7th February 2012.

The case arose following an accident in 2009 when one of the company’s employees, Jason Dunleavy, had his left arm amputated by a conveyor.  The company had earlier pleaded guilty to the charges at a sitting of Limerick Circuit Criminal Court on January 11th 2010.

The Company, Derry White Skip Hire Ltd, was fined €15,000 for breaches of Section 8(1) (duty of the employer ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, the safety, health and welfare at work of his or her employees) of the Safety Health and Welfare at Work Act 2005.

Mr. Derry White, Director of Derry White Skip Hire Ltd, was fined €5,000 for breaches of the same section of the 2005 Act.

Source: legal island.ie

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 Skip Hire company prosecuted

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