Power firm pleads guilty to causing workplace death
10:18:00 Tuesday 31st August 2010A power station has admitted breaching health and safety laws following the death of a father-of-three in a work accident.
Energy Power Resources (EPR), the company which owns the Elean Power Station in Sutton, is the largest straw burning power station in the world. A 53-year-old male lorry driver for Soham-based trucking firm, Turners, was unloading straw at the power station in September 2008 when one of the bales toppled off a crane onto him.
Despite colleagues’ efforts to lift the bale off him, the man, who was from Barway, near Ely, died at the scene shortly afterwards.
An inquest last year recorded a verdict of accidental death but charges were made against the company after investigations by the Health and Safety Executive.
Representatives from Energy Power Resources appeared at Cambridge Crown Court last week and pleaded guilty to two charges under the Health and Safety at Work Act. They admitted 'failing to do their duty under the Health and Safety at Work Act.' The representatives must return to court for sentencing on 4 November.
The worker was described by his family as a 'devoted family man.' 
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