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The operator of a hotel in Lincolnshire has been ordered to pay more than £250,000 in fines and prosecution costs after it failed to comply with a string of Improvement Notices.

South Kesteven District Council visited Stoke Rochford Hall, near Grantham, in May 2017 for a routine food hygiene inspection. However, the inspecting officer noticed a damaged electrical cable across a kitchen floor walkway and exposed cables in the dishwashing area.

He issued Improvement Notices requiring the electrical installation at the venue to be inspected and tested by a competent person; any work required in the electrician’s report to make the electrical installation safe; and where work was required, to provide satisfactory documentation that it had been completed. The officer and subsequently visited the hotel to find the notices had not been complied with. Despite giving the management more time to correct the failings, it failed to do so.

In court, the company pleaded guilty to eight charges, including failing to comply with an Improvement Notice and failing to report an accident within the statutory time period after a member of staff was injured in a fall at the premises.

The operator of the world's largest nuclear site has been fined £320,000 after an electrician’s eyelashes were burned off and his shirt caught fire while working on high voltage equipment.

Sellafield was prosecuted following what an inspector described as an 'entirely avoidable' incident in which a worker suffered 15-20% burns at the site near Seascale in West Cumbria.

On 24 April 2020 Reece Hudson was assisting in a job to permanently disconnect a three phase 11kV cable known as HTF 148 at a substation.

Two authorised persons cut the cable and instructed Reece to cap and disconnect it on his own. He removed the cover from the front of the cable box, which had a green label on it indicating that it was safe to work on.

However, he had a limited experience of high voltage cable boxes. He expected to see three 'elbow joint' terminations, but when he looked into the box he saw three cable cores with 'straight boot' style covers. This led him to believe that the cable went up into the section above.

He went to the rear of the unit to try to find the terminations. There were no warning labels on the rear to indicate the presence of live conductors behind the covers and he therefore removed one of them.

He tried to remove the back panel but came into contact with the live current and was thrown back against the substation wall. The photograph above shows the burn marks.

His eyelashes were burned off and his shirt caught fire. He managed to beat out the flames and called the control room for help. He was taken to West Cumberland Hospital and then onto the burns unit at Newcastle upon Tyne.