RNN media information for journalists and the press - Press Releases - RECYCLING COMPANY FINED AFTER INJURY ON CROYDON SITE - RNN media information for journalists and the press: A recycling company has been ordered to pay a £20,000 fine by the end of the week for safety failings on a waste transfer site in Croydon after an overseas student on shift work fell four metres through a chute.
Mr Priyank Malik, 22, from India, a Business Studies student at Westminster Academy who was living in Uxbridge, was working part-time on the waste site to support himself through a post-graduate diploma.
He was injured when he fell through a chute into a waste-storage bay at the Country Waste Management site on Beddington Lane, Croydon on 15 April 2011.
Although Mr Malik suffered only minor injuries, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), which investigated, said that Country Waste Management failed to put measures in place to protect their employees and others working at height.
Westminster Magistrates’ Court heard today (10 Oct) that One51 Recycling ES UK (South) Limited, trading as Country Waste Management, had received advice in 2010 from HSE about its responsibility to control the risks of working at height.
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