more on the crane smashing through the house

[MasterBlaster]

who will be held at fault? the crane driver/company or the tree surgeon?

 

IMO, the crane operator's the one at fault.

[Andy Clark]

IMO, the crane operator's the one at fault.

 

You'd have thought so.

 

Trouble is, the way our stupid legal system works, if that was over here you'd probably find the Arbs getting held liable for employing the crane company.

 

If you compare it to this as a model.......

 

On 8 January 2003 in Leamington Spa Magistrates' Court, a building and property development firm pleaded guilty to a charge under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 (HSW Act), Section 3(2). P and B Carpentry and Builders (trading as B and B Homes) was fined £2,000, plus £664 costs, for failing to check the tree surgeon involved was competent to carry out the operation in question.

 

The tree surgeon felled a large branch from a 20-metre poplar tree in an uncontrolled manner. It fell across a neighbouring garden demolishing a fence panel.

 

The neighbour had been in the garden just half an hour earlier, playing with her 20-month-old child. No warnings had been given to keep children or pets inside.

 

........ just swap it round an put the relevant people in the relevant places.

[benwrdn]

IMO, the crane operator's the one at fault.

 

i heard that normally the contracts signed will put the tree surgeon to blame:thumbdown:

[Tommy_B]

Surely there would've been a Banksman? In Butch's picture, Could the crane driver see what he was lifting?

[MasterBlaster]

I doubt it. I'm sure they had radio contact or a spotter/banksman directing.

[Alex Reid]

either way would you love to be one of them nosey people living near by watching the job get done from you bedroom window camera in hand when that happened!

 

as long as your not in the house it lands on that is!

[Tommy_B]

I doubt it. I'm sure they had radio contact or a spotter/banksman directing.

 

Then would the blame not lay with him then?