A date has been set for the trial of 3 firms charged with well being and protection offences following the loss of life of web site employee Jason Waring on the Hinkley Level C nuclear energy station building web site in Somerset in November 2022.
NNB Technology Corporate (HPC), Bouygues Travaux Publics and Laing O’Rourke Supply have pleaded now not responsible to failing to devise, organize and track the development section and co-ordinate issues in relation to well being and protection all the way through the development section to make certain that paintings was once performed with out dangers to well being and protection, contravening Law 13(1) of the Development (Design and Control) Laws 2015.
Bouygues Travaux Publics and Laing O’Rourke Supply entered now not responsible pleas to failing to devise, organize and track to make certain that building paintings was once performed with out dangers to well being and protection, contravening Law 15(2) of the Development (Design and Control) Laws 2015.
The case was once introduced through the Place of business for Nuclear Relation (ONR).
An ordeal date has been scheduled for 17th January 2028 at Bristol Crown Court docket. The trial is anticipated to closing between 4 and 6 weeks.
The ONR has additionally taken out a separate prosecution in opposition to Laing O’Rourke Supply and Bouygues Travaux Publics after a rebar mesh wall incident at the mission in August 2022. An worker, Paul Dunne, who labored as a slinger for Bylor Products and services (a Bouygues/Laing O’Rourke three way partnership), sustained critical accidents in a prefabrication backyard when a wall of rebar mesh fell on him as he was once running to take away the wall from a vertical jig for switch to every other a part of the web site.
Laing O’Rourke Supply and Bouygues Travaux Publics face a rate of failing to devise, organize and track building paintings with out dangers to well being and protection contravening Law 15(2) of the Development (Design and Control) Laws 2015, and in the past entered now not responsible pleas at a listening to held in December 2025.
An extra rate that each organisations did not habits an acceptable and enough chance evaluation of the dangers to the well being and protection in their workers, beneath Law 3 (1) (a) of the Control of Well being and Protection At Paintings Laws 1999, contravening Segment 33(1)(c) of the Act, has now additionally been added.
Each organisations have pleaded now not responsible to all fees.
An ordeal date for this situation has been set for 13th October 2027 at Bristol Crown Court docket.
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