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Developer fined for health and safety failures

A developer from Oldham has been fined £2,000 after pleading guilty to health and safety failures.

Mahmood Khokhar was prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) after the organisation served him with two improvement notices following a visit to a house extension site in Chadderton.

The developer ignored the health and safety advice and the warnings and when inspectors visited once more they found no fencing had been put up around a deep pit.

Laura Moran, a construction inspector for the HSE in Greater Manchester, stated that on a visit to the site she had seen a child's ball.

She said: "I dread to think what could have happened if they'd tried to fetch it, as the sides of the trench were starting to collapse."

Earlier this month, Morgan Est was fined £12,000 after health and safety failures led to a construction worker having to have a foot amputated following an accident at an excavation site in Wales.

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Posted on 29/06/2010

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