{"id":31906,"date":"2025-08-19T09:27:42","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T16:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/hinkley-contractors-face-prosecution-over-rebar-mesh-fall\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T09:27:42","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T16:27:42","slug":"hinkley-contractors-face-prosecution-over-rebar-mesh-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/hinkley-contractors-face-prosecution-over-rebar-mesh-fall\/","title":{"rendered":"Hinkley contractors face prosecution over rebar mesh fall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-500703\">\n\t<!-- .entry-header --><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>The incident on 20 August, 2022 saw an employee sustain serious injuries when a wall of rebar mesh fell on him as he was working to remove it from a vertical jig.<\/p>\n<p>The ONR said the incident was a conventional health and safety matter and there was no radiological risk to the public.<\/p>\n<p>Bouygues Travaux Publics SAS and Laing O\u2019Rourke Delivery Limited each face a single charge of failing to plan, manage and monitor construction work without risks to health and safety.<\/p>\n<p>The two contractors are the joint venture partners in BYLOR JV, delivering the main civil engineering works at the site.<\/p>\n<p>Details about the location and date of the first court hearing will be announced in due course.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-content --><\/p>\n<footer class=\"entry-meta\">\n<div class=\"author-info\">\n<div class=\"sleeve\">\n<div class=\"author-avatar\">\n<div class=\"sleeve\">\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.constructionenquirer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/userphoto\/3.jpg\" alt=\"Grant Prior\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"photo\">\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- .author-info -->\t\t\t<\/footer>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.constructionenquirer.com\/2025\/08\/19\/hinkley-contractors-face-prosecution-over-rebar-mesh-fall\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">This article was originally posted at Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] The incident on 20 August, 2022 saw an employee sustain serious injuries when a wall of rebar mesh fell &#8230; <a title=\"Hinkley contractors face prosecution over rebar mesh fall\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/hinkley-contractors-face-prosecution-over-rebar-mesh-fall\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Hinkley contractors face prosecution over rebar mesh fall\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1089],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-construction-enquirer","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}