- Workplace Law Network

The London Borough of Hackney has been fined £10,000 and ordered to pay £11,286.37 costs after an employee received an electric shock while changing a street light which left him in a coma for two days.

The incident took place on 23 July 2003 while Steve Yamoah, a member of the works department, was working with electrician Geoff Hicks on a street lamp in London.

The normal procedure is to switch off the light using the isolator switch at the bottom. The two men ha... (178 more words)

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