Nestle UK and contractor Monotronic have both been fined for failing to ensure the safety of an electrician who was electrocuted and killed while working at Nestle’s Middlesex plant in 1999.
Anthony Allen, an electrician with Monotronic, was electrocuted while pulling out redundant cables from trunking in the coffee plant at the factory. His employer has been charged with breaching Section 2(1) of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974, for failing to ensure the safety of an employee. Monotronic was fined £25 000.

Nestle has also been charged with a similar offence, that of failing to ensure the safety of people not employed by it but affected by its work (Section 3(1)). The company has been fined £220 000 and ordered to pay £30 000 in court costs.

HSE principal inspector Samantha Peace said: “18 workers were electrocuted in 1999. Each company, however large or small, must ensure that contractors have safe systems of work and follow them.”

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Electrical and Mechanical Contractor