Article: Pounds 15,000 fines for scaffold collapse

TWO construction companies have been fined a total of Pounds 15,000 after admitting health and safety failings following a scaffolding collapse in Dartmouth.

Tower Scaffolding Ltd, based in Newton Abbot, was fined Pounds 3,000 and ordered to pay Pounds 2,000 costs.

Mansell Construction Services, who bought the construction arm of Newton Abbot-based Dean and Dyball Civil Engineering, was fined Pounds 5,000 and ordered to pay Pounds 5,000 costs.

Both companies pleaded guilty to two charges of contravening health and safety regulations.

The scaffolding collapse happened in December, 2005, during construction of a Pounds 15million project to build luxury homes and revamp a hotel at Dartmouth ...

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