Coroner's inquest reported to have made safety recommendations after a fatal accident during wind farm construction

What happened

An inquest is reported to have examined a fatal accident that occurred during construction work at a wind farm and to have issued recommendations following the hearing. Only a headline and a short feed summary were available at the time of writing. The location, the date of the accident, the number of people involved, the activity underway at the time and the content of the recommendations were not reported in the material available. It is not confirmed from the available material whether the site is onshore or offshore. This entry is held as a stub and should be updated or withdrawn once a primary report is obtained.

Contributing factors

Not reported in the available source material.

Lessons learned

1. Operators should treat coroner findings on construction fatalities as input to risk reviews even when the site is not their own.
2. Construction phase risk assessments and permits must stay separate from operational ones and be reviewed at each contractor change.

More lessons on worker safety and safe systems of work, from every incident on the register.

Not yet known

• Location of the wind farm
• Date of the accident
• Number of people involved
• Content of the recommendations

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Source

globalnews.ca